A Utah girl left school and vanished... now cops have a disturbing prediction about where she is heading
A Utah girl who vanished after leaving school may be headed to Las Vegas to meet up with people she met online, police have said.
Alisa Petrov, 15, disappeared on her way home from American Fork school on April 21.
She was spotted on surveillance footage making a purchase at a local gas station before boarding a UTA train.
She exited the train in Provo and asked multiple people to help her get to Las Vegas, Nevada, South Jordan Police Department said.
'Alisa is believed to be attempting to meet individuals she met online using multiple social media platforms and chat applications,' the force said in a statement.
Petrov's desperate family are offering a $20,000 reward for anyone with information on her whereabouts.
They set up a website where they have desperately appealed to the teen.
'Alisa, if you can see this, please know that we love you, we will always love you. We miss you. All of your friends and our friends are very worried too,' her family said.
She was spotted on surveillance footage making a purchase at a local gas station before boarding a UTA train.
'We all want you to return. You will not get in trouble for running away. We are not mad at you. We absolutely love you regardless of what happened.
'We just want you to return back so that we are together as a happy family who care about each other, and we will try our hardest to make you happy. Please come back.'
Police said the teen is classed as an endangered runaway.
She is described as being about 5'3″ tall and weighing about 122 pounds.
Surveillance footage showed her wearing a white shirt with darker lettering on the front.
Officials told ABC4.com that Petrov had a phone and iPad with her, which investigators are trying to probe to see if their locations can be traced.
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