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UPDATE 21-Year-Old Woman Reported Missing in Norwood Found

Gabriella Vargas has been reported missing. 
Photo courtesy of the NYPD

The NYPD has confirmed that a 21-year-old woman who had been reported missing in Norwood has been found and is safe.

 

Prior to being location, it had been reported to police that Gabriella Vargas, 21, of 2160 Walton Avenue in Fordham Heights, had last been seen on Tuesday, April 5, at around noon as she was leaving 111 East 210th Street in Norwood.

 

Vargas was described as female, around 5 feet, 2 inches tall, weighing around 100 pounds,  Hispanic, and has brown eyes and black hair. She had last been seen wearing a black coat, pink shirt, royal blue pants, and black sneakers.

 

A photo of Vargas is attached.

 

Anyone with information regarding this missing person is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/.

 

All calls are strictly confidential.

 

 

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