Overview
- Santa Ana police are asking for tips in the search for Yasmin Gonzalez Benitez, who left home March 15 for a same-day family visit to Tijuana and did not return.
- Detectives say repeated calls to her mother and an alleged brother have gone unanswered, and they describe the two as uncooperative.
- Investigators are trying to verify a roommate’s report that relatives took her to a facility in Mexico.
- Her 4-year-old daughter, left with a roommate, has been placed with child protective services.
- Officers canvassed neighbors, contacted relatives, and posted her photo on social media, and the boyfriend’s family filed the missing-person report.