A Michigan woman missing for seven years was rescued after seeking help at a hotel outside Detroit.
The woman was last seen in 2017 and was reunited with her family by Michigan State Police, law enforcement said in a thread about X.
District 2 Activity: On February 26, District 2 SIS detectives received a report of a missing person. The caller said she had been contacted by her stepdaughter, who had been missing since 2017 and was currently being held against her will at a motel in Inkster, Michigan. 1/ pic.twitter.com/kWLXKFZrgu
— MSP District 2 (@mspmetrodet) February 29, 2024
on Feb. 26 in Inkster, about 14 miles southwest of downtown Detroit, after the victim’s stepmother called police from a motel room where she was “being held against her will.” We arrived at an Evergreen Motel.
State Police and Metro South Post troopers responded to the motel and said they heard “screaming and crying” coming from one of the rooms.
“Officers forced entry into the room and retrieved her,” the MSP said.
Detectives and Metro South Post officers responded to the Evergreen Motel. I heard a girl’s screams coming from the motel room. Her police officers forced entry into her room and retrieved her. 3/
— MSP District 2 (@mspmetrodet) February 29, 2024
The woman, whose identity has not been released, was taken to Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn for evaluation and questioning by detectives. She was then “reunified with her family and given other means to aid her recovery,” police said.
Police also recovered drugs, a cell phone and a gun from the motel room.
She was transported to Beaumont-Dearborn for medical evaluation and questioning by doctors. She was reunited with her family and given other resources to aid her recovery. Four/
— MSP District 2 (@mspmetrodet) February 29, 2024
MSP spokesperson Mike Shaw said: “It was an outstanding job by the TAG detectives who followed this call, rescued this woman and brought her home to her family.”
The agency added that a suspect has been identified but not yet in custody and that an investigation is underway to determine whether human trafficking was involved.
“We’re going to look at, yeah… interview her, whether a crime like human trafficking actually happened, or whether it’s a domestic violence situation or something different,” the show said. said. WXYZ. “I don’t want to use the word her abduction as if someone grabbed her and took her to that place. It may have started as a relationship where you were held against your will and trafficked. .”
