The 17-year-old was last seen in a stadium last Saturday after a match.
Guatemalan National Civil Police (PNC) agents located 17-year-old professional footballer Sharon Melissa Santa Cruz Huertas, who went missing last Saturday in the country’s capital, alive on Thursday morning, several sources reported. .
The PNC said Santa Cruz was located in the municipality of Rio Dulce, in the Caribbean department of Izabal, 260 kilometers northeast of Guatemala City.
The Public Ministry (MP, Public Prosecutor’s Office), the Volunteer Fire Brigade (CBV) and the Communications Club, to which the footballer belongs, confirmed her appearance alive, but have not revealed further details of how Santa Cruz reached Riu Dolç .
“Sharon appeared. We will soon be able to give more information,” the Communications posted on social media, while the MP assured that citizen reports “have been instrumental in locating Sharon Melissa Santa Cruz Huertas who is already in protection of the authorities “.
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“The effective action of the Office of the Prosecutor for Children and Adolescents through the Maina (Model of Child and Adolescent Care) with the support of the PNC made it possible to locate Sharon Melissa Santa Cruz Huertas, who is already under the protection of the authorities, “said the investigating body.
For their part, the Volunteer Firefighters explained that the player was evaluated at her Sweet River headquarters and “is stable.”
Authorities had activated a Alba Keneth alert (an institutional response system) to locate the footballer since her disappearance last Saturday when she was last seen at the Ciments Progrés Stadium, north of Guatemala City, after a match with the Women’s Communications team.
Two days ago the family of the player, including her father, Hugo Santa Cruz, accompanied by several dozen people, marched in various parts of the Guatemalan capital to demand his appearance alive.
Santa Cruz Huertas disappeared on Saturday after a game in the quarterfinals of the Guatemalan Women’s League.
The player, who was wearing her club uniform at the time of her disappearance and also being found, signed in October for Comunicaciones after also standing out in local futsal. Last November 22 he scored his first official goal. According to official data, the most common crime committed in Guatemala is violence against women.