Hannah Kobayashi case: LAPD says lacking girl traveled to Mexico on personal accord, has not been victimized

LOS ANGELES — Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii girl who had been believed to be lacking in Los Angeles, crossed the border into Mexico on her personal accord 4 days after touchdown at LAX and isn’t the sufferer of any crime, the LAPD mentioned Monday.

“So far the investigation has not uncovered any proof that Kobayashi is being trafficked or is the sufferer of any foul play,” LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell mentioned.

Detectives reviewed her social media accounts and located a need expressed to “step away from fashionable connectivity,” he added.

The investigation found that whereas Kobayashi initially checked her bag via to New York, she later instructed it’s despatched to her at LAX, the place she retrieved it on Nov. 11.

She later used her passport and money to purchase a bus ticket at Union Station to journey to the San Ysidro border crossing, the place she entered Mexico by way of tunnel on foot at 12:13 p.m. on Nov. 12.

LAPD has not pursued the investigation additional into Mexico as a result of it seems she just isn’t the sufferer of any crime. If she returns to america, regulation enforcement can be notified.

“We have mainly accomplished all the pieces we are able to do at this level,” McDonnell mentioned. “She’s left the nation and in one other nation now.”

Kobayashi flew from Maui to LAX on Nov. 8 and was speculated to catch a connecting flight to New York a short while later. However she missed the flight and, after a couple of cryptic textual content messages, misplaced contact along with her household inside a couple of days. Relations have traveled to Los Angeles to seek for her.

Her father, Ryan Kobayashi, was discovered useless final weekend in a car parking zone close to LAX. The health worker decided the reason for dying to be suicide.