3 Teenage Girls Vanish on Saturday: Police Suspect They’re Together

Police are looking for Karma Loza, Emilie Barrios, and Holly Kauffman, three teen girls that may have run away together on Saturday.

MESA, Ariz. — The Mesa Police Department is urgently searching for three teen girls who disappeared on Saturday and are believed to have fled together.

The missing girls are 16-year-old Karma Loza, 15-year-old Holly Kauffman, and 15-year-old Emilie Barrios. Authorities are requesting the public’s assistance in locating them.

Loza has brown hair, brown eyes, stands 5’5″ tall, and weighs 221 lbs. She was last seen on August 10 around 5:30 p.m., leaving her residence near Signal Butte and Broadway roads. She was dressed in a black shirt and black shorts. Notably, Loza is diabetic and without her necessary insulin.

Kauffman has red hair, blue eyes, is 5’2″, and weighs 130 lbs. She also left her home near Signal Butte and Broadway roads at approximately the same time, wearing a red wig, gray hoodie, and gray sweatpants.

Barrios, characterized by her brown hair and blue eyes, stands 5’2″ tall and weighs 120 lbs. Like the others, she was last seen around 5:30 p.m. near Signal Butte and Broadway roads, dressed in a black shirt and jeans.

The police suspect that the trio might have intentionally run away together. If you have any information regarding their whereabouts, please contact the Mesa Police Department at (480) 644-2211.