A South Texas woman who vanished over the weekend was found west of Lamesa in Dawson County Tuesday.
66-year-old Alice Myers traveled eight miles west of town on Highway 180 before she ran out of gas.
“I don’t know where she was going in New Mexico,” Dawson County Sheriff Matt Hogg said, “It might’ve been easier to come back here and go through Seminole to get wherever she was going.”
Palm Valley Police said it’s not the first time Myers has taken off. Her family told authorities she had been silent for a day at a time before.
“She was very coherent, she knew where she came from, where she had stopped, where all she had been going,” Hogg said.
Hogg said he doesn’t think Myers committed a crime.
“I’m an adult, and if I wanted to just leave, I could just leave. You have that freedom in this country, you can go about wherever as long as you’re not actively committing a crime or you’re not hiding from law enforcement because you’ve committed a crime.”
But Hogg added that a person who went missing by choice might have to pay a fee if law enforcement exhausts resources looking for them.
“It’s always best to keep in contact with your family members or friends, letting them know where you’re at…but there’s some people that just want to be alone.”