A search that stretched more than 500 days has ended in relief. Kylie Arellano, the Utah teenager who vanished from her family’s home in Garden City at age 15 on May 29, 2025, was found safe in Oregon on Sunday, November 1, 2026. She is now 17.
Oregon law enforcement officers recovered the teen working alongside the FBI’s Salt Lake City field office and the Rich County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the Oregon State Police, the FBI’s Portland field office and the Utah Department of Public Safety. A 39-year-old man found with her was taken into custody without incident.
FBI Director Kash Patel said local police in Oregon “brought a minor who had been missing for a year and a half to safety, acting on information provided by our FBI Salt Lake City Field Office.” The FBI said the case is ongoing and declined to release further information.
Details surrounding her disappearance remain under investigation. A law enforcement source told Fox News Digital the man taken into custody allegedly met the teenager on Snapchat before she vanished — an allegation that has not been established in court. Separately, unsealed search warrants reported by KUTV on October 29 showed investigators had previously questioned Kylie’s mother about a 2024 abuse allegation, which she denied; that remains prior reporting, not a proven fact.
For Kylie’s family and the Garden City community, the news that Kylie Arellano was found safe in Oregon brings an end to 17 months of anguish — the outcome everyone had hoped for since the day she disappeared.
The recovery is the culmination of one of the longest missing-person investigations in recent Utah history — more than 500 days of tips, searches and dead ends. The FBI’s Salt Lake City field office coordinated the multi-agency effort that finally located Kylie in Oregon. While questions remain about where she has been and what happens to the man in custody, her family now has what they fought for over a year and a half to get: their daughter, alive and safe.
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