A local family is frantically searching for a 40-year-old mother of two who disappeared Friday morning. D.C. police call her as a critical missing person.
Ana Cecilia Escobar-Arevalo was last seen Friday at about 7 a.m. in the 5800 block of 8th Street NE, not far from the Prince George’s County line.
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WATCH HEREShe was on her way to work at the time, her husband Hugo Pérez, told Telemundo 44.
“My family, my kids, her family, we are worried,” Pérez told News4. “We really need everybody’s help.”
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SIGN UP Pérez has been putting up missing person flyers in several D.C. neighborhoods, including Columbia Heights.
He said he’s called hospitals and walked into fire stations asking if there was a crash involving Escobar-Arevalo and the 2008 Honda CR-V with the D.C. tags EB-2261 that she was driving.
He harbors a fear that Escobar-Arevalo, whom he says was born in El Salvador and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, may have been picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and been unable to communicate. He said he did contact the agency and was told she did not appear in their detention records.
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"ICE could have her. It's a pretty big possibility for me, and I'm holding on to that," he told Telemundo 44 in Spanish.
Escobar-Arevalo’s children, who are 12 and 17, miss their mother.
“It’s very difficult,” Pérez said. "[…] We're very, very desperate and afraid. You know, afraid of other things… of the worst, let's say," he said.
Escobar-Arevalo is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 142 pounds with long brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black sweater, black pants and black shoes.
Anyone who has seen her or knows where she might be is asked to call D.C. police.
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