{"id":520615,"date":"2026-01-16T15:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520615\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:09:12","slug":"turquoise-alert-issued-for-missing-8-year-old-native-american-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520615\/","title":{"rendered":"Turquoise Alert issued for missing 8-year-old Native American girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ej94z9zqtc5wrh60.jpg\" alt=\"Turquoise Alert issued for missing Native girl\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; The Navajo Police Department has issued a Turquoise Alert for a girl who was last seen on the afternoon of Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to officials with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, 8-year-old Maleeka &#8220;Mollie&#8221; Boone was last seen, on foot, at around 6:00 p.m. on Cedar Loop in the Coalmine NHA housing area in Coalmine.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ksaz-missing-maleeka-boone-011626.jpg\" alt=\"Missing Maleeka &quot;Mollie&quot; Boone\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\"> <strong data-v-0dea8073=\"\"> (Navajo Police Department)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;She is believed to be wearing a red jacket, blue jeans and cowboy boots. She has not been seen or heard from since,&#8221; read a portion of DPS&#8217;s statement. &#8220;Her family is concerned for her welfare since it is out of character for her to be gone for an extended period of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">DPS officials also released a description of Maleeka. She is described as a female, 4&#8217;5&#8243; tall, weighing 50 lbs, with brown eyes, and what officials describe as &#8220;long, brown hair with French braids on both sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">On the missing person poster released by Navajo Police, Maleeka is additionally described as having a light complexion.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Anyone with information should call police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information for this article was gathered from a missing person poster released by the Navajo Police Department. This story was reported on from Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Missing Persons<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/yavapai-county\/navajo-nation\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navajo Nation<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; The Navajo Police Department has issued a Turquoise Alert for a girl who was last seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":520616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,8324,75714,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,42121],"class_list":{"0":"post-520615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-missing-persons","13":"tag-navajo-nation","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-yavapai-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115905414292897852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}