New Search Planned for Missing Provo Woman Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado

Elizabeth Laguna Salgado

New Search Planned for Missing Provo Woman Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado

Photo Courtesy of Help Find Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado Facebook
Photo Courtesy of Help Find Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado Facebook

 

PROVO, UTAH – May 12, 2015 (Gephardt Daily) – Friends of Elizabeth Salgado have planned another search for the Provo woman who has been missing for nearly a month. Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado was last seen April 16. This time the search will take place at Kiwanis Park, 820 N. 1100 East, Provo, Wednesday, May 13, from 4 p.m. – 9 p.m.

They are asking for volunteers to meet at the Pavilion 1 on the northeast side of the park and they plan on staying the full five hours. They ask for the public’s help even if you can only help for a short time.

Local businesses have donated over 25,000 fliers for searchers to put up so they are asking volunteers to bring tape and staple guns. For more information on the search please visit the event Facebook page.

Photo Courtesy : Family Facebook
Photo Courtesy : Family Facebook

The search comes just about a week after Provo Police Department announced the reward for missing  Salgado had increased to $15,000 thanks to  a local company and a private individual.

According to the Provo Police Department Facebook, “both companies have offered $5,000 each toward the Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado reward. This increases the award amount to $15,000 for providing information that directly helps us find Elena.”

Elizabeth’s uncle, Rosemberg Salgado, who lives in Lehi, posted a comment on the Provo Police Facebook urging those who fear their immigration status might be holding them back to please come forward. He says finding his niece is of the utmost importance to the Provo Police and not the immigration status of informants.

In a statement to Gephardt Daily, Salgado said he wants who ever took his niece to know they would want them to place themselves in her family’s shoes and let her go. “We just want whoever has my niece to know that we won’t have any charges against them,” he said. “To let my niece go in a place where she can communicate with us and we will forgive him, her or them. We beg them to put themselves in our place. They must have a mother and sisters or cousins and they wouldn’t want anyone to take them like that. We are willing to forgive them just let my niece go free.”

Lt. Brandon Post of Provo Police also addressed the rumors that have been surfacing around social media that there have been sightings of Elizabeth in both Springville and Heber City. “We encourage anyone to not necessarily believe things posted by others who are not a part of the investigation. I personally promise that I will put any leads or sightings that we find to be credible on our Facebook and Twitter because believe me, we want the public’s help as much as possible,” said Post.

Elizabeth went missing after leaving the Nomen Global School, located in Provo at 384 W. Center Street.

Police and volunteers have conducted several searches since Salgado’s disappearance. Up to this point Salgado’s family feels optimistic that she is alive.

Just one month before she disappeared, Salgado moved to Utah from Mexico so that she could learn English after serving a mission for the Mormon Church.

Her mother Libertad Salgado Figueroa and father Julio Cesar Laguna Ozuna traveled here with two of her brothers from their home in Mexico to join the search for the woman they know by her middle name Elena.

She is described as 5-ft., 4-in. tall, 120 to 130 lbs., with long black hair and brown eyes, was last seen by some of her classmates walking to her apartment, 18 blocks from the language school. A part-time waitress at a local Mexican restaurant, she was wearing a denim jacket, blue jeans and brown or black knee-high boots, and was carrying a denim purse with red straps, according to Lt. Post.

Police are asking that anyone with information on her disappearance contact Provo police at 801-852-7307.

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