Baja California’s Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE) announced it has located four missing persons in Ensenada, including a 14-year-old girl. The attorney general’s specialized unit for forced disappearances led the search operations that resulted in the recoveries.
Prosecutors and investigators from the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), the state’s investigative police branch, carried out field operations and follow-up actions to find the four individuals. The FGE activated its search protocols after each disappearance was reported.
Search Unit Active in Ensenada
The cases were handled by the FGE’s dedicated unit for locating disappeared or missing persons, which operates an Ensenada office reachable at 646-152-2500, extensions 2559 and 2560. The agency did not release the names of the four people found or specify the circumstances of their disappearances.
The recovery of a 14-year-old girl is notable given the pattern of youth disappearances in the Ensenada area. In late April 2026, the FGE issued three separate search alerts for teenage girls, ages 14 and 16, who vanished from the Fraccionamiento Bahía neighborhood on the same day. Earlier in April, the office also sought help finding a mother and her children who went missing from the Colonia Ignacio Allende neighborhood on January 25.
Disappearances Remain a Concern in Baja California
The search collective Siguiendo Tus Pasos has previously raised alarms about the rising number of minors and young people appearing on FGE search bulletins in Ensenada. In December 2024, the group warned that organized crime may be targeting younger residents, pointing to economic vulnerability as a factor.
Baja California’s attorney general, María Elena Andrade Ramírez, has faced pressure over several high-profile disappearance cases in the Ensenada municipality. In March 2025, she confirmed that six Ensenada municipal police officers were arrested and two more were fugitives in connection with the forced disappearance of four young men from the Ejido El Porvenir area.
The FGE urged the public to report any information about missing persons to its Ensenada search unit. Authorities credited investigative work and public cooperation for the four successful recoveries.
This story was first reported by Ensenada.net.