Missing 5-year-old migrant girl found safe in rugged Southern Arizona


Published/Last Modified on Friday, January 25, 2008 3:05 PM MST


SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) -- Searchers combing rugged terrain in southern Arizona Friday found a 5-year-old migrant girl who had been missing for hours, authorities said.


The girl was apparently unharmed after a night in the chilly mountains of Southern Arizona.

"She appeared a little shaken up" but was safe, Cochise County Sheriff's spokeswoman Carol Capas said.

The girl was spotted by agents in a Border Patrol helicopter after having spent about 12 hours away from her father. At least part of the time she was with a human smuggler in a mountainous canyon area about 8 miles north of the Mexican border.

An intense search had been under way since early Friday when the girl was grabbed by the smuggler as U.S. Border Patrol agents closed in to take him into custody.

"They got a visual on her from the air. BORSTAR (Border Search, Trauam and Rescue) agents went in and have got her," Capas said shortly before the helicopter with the little girl landed at a search command post.

The child had been among a group of illegal immigrants coming through Miller Canyon near Sierra Vista on Thursday night.

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