Texas teen missing since Christmas Eve believed to be in 'imminent danger': Sheriff

A Texas teen who has been missing since Christmas Eve was past seen leaving her location that greeting and is believed to beryllium successful "imminent danger," instrumentality enforcement officials said connected Sunday.

An unidentified idiosyncratic believed to beryllium 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos was captured connected information video astir 7:00 a.m. connected Wednesday searching her conveyance for an unidentified item, according to a connection from the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.

Investigators said they judge Mendoza Olmos near the residence connected ft since her conveyance remained determination and that the lone items she took with her were her car keys and perchance her driver's license.

Her past known determination was the 11000 artifact of Caspian Spring successful northwest Bexar County, the sheriff's bureau said.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told ABC News connected Sunday that sheriff's deputies and volunteers person been searching astir the timepiece for Mendoza Olmos.

Multiple agencies person joined the search, including the FBI, which is providing method assistance, and the Department of Homeland Security, which is monitoring borderline crossings and planetary travel, Salazar said.

"We decidedly don't privation to miss anything," Salazar said. "The crushed hunt is somewhat constricted to a mates of quadrate miles. We're besides not ruling retired that this lawsuit whitethorn instrumentality america extracurricular the borders of the continental United States."

Salazar said investigators person not ruled thing retired successful the teenager's disappearance, including kidnapping, quality trafficking and the imaginable she near connected her ain accord.

Salazar said Mendoza Olmos precocious went done a romanticist breakup, but authorities said the breakup was communal and don't fishy thing "nefarious" was involved, saying everyone adjacent to her is cooperating.

Olmos was past seen wearing a baby-blue and achromatic hoodie, baby-blue pajama bottoms and achromatic shoes.

"Camila's parent stated that Camila usually goes for a greeting walk; however, she became acrophobic erstwhile Camila did not instrumentality wrong a tenable play of time," according to the sheriff's office.

Salazar confirmed that Mendoza Olmos was not detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), contempt her being a U.S. citizen.

"That was a idiosyncratic concern. So, I had it checked to marque definite that determination were nary stops, nary detentions, and that she's not determination successful a national detention facility. That is thing we needed to check," Salazar said.

Salazar noted that it was antithetic for Mendoza Olmos to permission her telephone astatine home, saying she leads an progressive manner and it's "highly unusual" that she hasn't returned.

"That's wherefore we're moving fundamentally astir the timepiece connected this case," Salazar said.

While Salazar would not disclose immoderate details of Mendoza Olmos's disappearance, helium said determination is capable accusation to suggest she is successful "imminent danger."

Salazar requested assistance from the assemblage successful the search, asking neighbors of Mendoza Olmos to cheque their surveillance cameras for immoderate footage of the teenagers.

Anyone with accusation connected her whereabouts is asked to telephone the Bexar County Sheriff's Office astatine (210)335-6000 oregon the BCSO Missing Persons Unit via missingpersons@bexar.org.