The Federal Bureau of Investigations released new data Tuesday showing a total of 195 missing persons across New Mexico and the Navajo Nation. This is the 34th time the agency updated its online list.
FBI Intelligence Analyst Don Metzmeier told KOAT he’s noticing a new trend in the data: that Indigenous juveniles go missing over and over again. A juvenile is defined as someone who is 20 years or younger when they go missing.
Over more than a six-year period starting in January 2018, 1,400 missing Indigenous people were juveniles. And of that number, 200 Indigenous juveniles went missing more than one time…