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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Two brothers are facing charges in connection with the missing girl at the center of a Turquoise Alert sent late Tuesday night.
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Patrick Sanchez Jr., 68, and Manuel Sanchez, 60, face several charges after an investigation into the circumstances that led to a 13-year-old girl being reported missing.
Patrick faces the following charges in Maricopa County:
- Sexual conduct with a minor
- Luring a minor for sexual exploitation
- Molestation of a child
- Custodial interference
- Unlawful imprisonment
- Kidnapping
- Tampering with physical evidence
Manuel faces the following charges in Gila County:
- Custodial interference
- Unlawful imprisonment
- Kidnapping
- Tampering with physical evidence
Arizona’s Family is working to learn more about the two arrests.
The Turquoise Alert was sent around 9 p.m. Tuesday for a 13-year-old girl reported missing from Apache Junction.
She got into a family fight and refused to get into a family member’s car, authorities said. The girl then walked south through the parking lot, and a man in an early 2000s white Chevrolet Impala four-door sedan approached her.
Officials said she got into the car, and the driver was seen heading west on Superstition Boulevard. The man was identified, located in Globe, Ariz., and taken into DPS custody.
Family members said the girl was located in the Globe-Miami area.
This is not the first time either brother has gotten in trouble with the law.
“It was like deja vu all over again, like complete deja vu because, you know, it’s the same pattern,” says a woman who says she a survivor of past abuse at the hands of Manuel. “They should have done more to protect their children and the people, the rural people of Arizona, so this didn’t happen to anybody ever again. And unfortunately, it did.”
Manuel was sent to prison in the 1990s for sexual conduct with a minor and later served prison time for a drug offense.
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He’s listed as a Level 3 sex offender and is on the Arizona sex offender registry.
“They shouldn’t be walking the streets,” the woman told Arizona’s Family over the phone.
Arizona Department of Corrections records show a Patrick Sanchez, age 68, served prison time in the early 1990s for a narcotics conviction.
During an initial appearance for Patrick in Maricopa County, prosecutors alleged that the 13-year-old was taken to different locations, including an Airbnb at one point, and forced to perform sexual acts.
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