SAN FERNANDO—A 14-year-old San Fernando girl who was believed to have disappeared while walking to a convenience store was located safe and sound in Santa Clarita amid extensive media coverage and a search by friends and relatives, authorities said late on Aug. 22.
Destiny Isabella Mercado told police she left home voluntarily with “some male subjects,'' and that she threw her own cell phone out of the car to avoid being tracked, San Fernando police Lt. Irwin Rosenberg told City News Service.
