Nikki Alcaraz, a young woman who went missing while traveling with her boyfriend, has been found alive.

Nikki Alcaraz, the young mother who went missing in New Mexico on a road trip from Tennessee to California with her boyfriend for more than three weeks, was found alive Tuesday, the Redding Police Department said in an account. Facebook.

“On May 30, 2023, at approximately 4:30 p.m., the Redding Police Department was notified that a missing person, Nikki Alcaraz, had been contacted by the Eureka Police Department earlier today and had been located safely,” it said.

In his message, he promised that Nicky would no longer be considered a missing person. As of now, no further details have been given about how she was found or the whereabouts of her partner.

Nikki Alcaraz and her boyfriend, Steven Tyler Stratton, were last seen driving from Moriarty, New Mexico, to Orange County, California in a black 2013 Jeep Wrangler with Tennessee license plates.

His plan in California was to spend a few days with family and friends.

“It’s a trip he’s made hundreds of times,” his sister, Toni Alcaraz, told local station WRKN. “Our uncle still lives in Southern California and she visits him often.”

Police report from May 4 Two days before the couple disappeared, According to a witness, Stratton punched Alcaraz in the face.

Stratton told officers he was also assaulted. Charges and the police did not return them to where they were detained, the report said.

Tony Alcaraz said he made a video call to him shortly after. ” She was crying and very hurt. Her eye was already black and you could see she was beaten.

For his part, the woman’s brother, Josh Alcaraz, told FOX10: “He hit her so bad that a truck driver had to stop to protect her and call the police.

The family alerted a friend, who traveled to New Mexico to meet Algaraz and tried to convince her to accompany him to California.

But on the day Alcaraz and a friend were to begin their journey, she decided to stay. ” He said he wanted to go back and find Tyler. Because I had a bad feeling [el amigo] He left without her,” Tony said.

Relatives of Algaraz say the friend was the last person to see her since May 6. Two days later, on May 8, Tony Alcaraz said he received a text message from his sister’s phone saying she was in Arizona. “I haven’t heard from her since.” was added.