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Concern for Missing Gaithersburg Teenager (LOCATED)

For Immediate Release: Saturday, April 2, 2022

Update : April 5, 2022 -  Liz Salmeron-Banegas has been located safe and unharmed. 

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Gaithersburg, MD – Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police – Special Victims Investigation Division (SVID) are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing teenager from Gaithersburg.    

   

Liz Salmeron- Banegas, age 14, was last seen on Friday, April 1, 2022, at approximately 6 p.m., in the 400 block of Muddy Branch Road.  

  

Salmeron- Banegas is approximately 5-feet, 1-inch tall and weighs 120 pounds. She has brown eyes and black hair. Salmeron- Banegas has a belly button piercing. It is unknown what she was last seen wearing.  

 

Salmeron- Banegas may be traveling with another missing teenager, Nevaeh Castro.  

 

Police and family are concerned for her welfare.    

  

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Liz Salmeron- Banegas is asked to call the Montgomery County Police SVID at (240) 773- 5400 or the police non-emergency number at (301) 279- 8000 (24-hour line). Callers may remain anonymous. 

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Release ID: 22-177
Media Contact: L.N.J. Ivey 
Categories: missing-person