PHOENIX — Arizona’s newest alert for missing and endangered persons has gone live.
Thursday morning, Gov. Katie Hobbs and Arizona Department of Public Safety announced the Turquoise Alert system is active.
Turquoise Alerts will be sent when an indigenous person 65 and younger is missing and believed to be in danger.
The alert will be shared through local radio and TV, cell phones, ADOT digital highway signs and across social media.
It’s the fourth alert system active in Arizona:
- Amber — A child under 18 is believed to have been abducted
- Silver — A person 65 and older, or a person with cognitive or developmental disability, has gone missing
- Blue — A suspect is on the loose after law enforcement personnel has been killed or severely injured
- Turquoise — An indigenous person under 65 has gone missing and is believed to be in danger
The new alert system follows the death of 14-year-old Emily Pike, a San Carlos Apache teen who went missing from a group home in Maricopa County. Her dismembered body was found by the side of a road on Feb. 14.
A total of $175,000 in rewards have been offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons involved in Pike’s death.
