Overview
- Authorities confirmed Monday that 32-year-old Micaela Gladys Albornoz was located alive and in good health after she went to the Argentine Consulate in Florianópolis seeking help to travel to São Paulo.
- Consular staff identified her when she presented a neighbor’s DNI that was being monitored by Santa Fe investigators, and officials verified her identity through fingerprint checks.
- Albornoz had been missing since June 24 and investigators followed bank movements, CCTV footage and travel records that placed her in Córdoba, Cañada Rosquín and other provinces before she crossed into Brazil.
- Her family had raised concerns about prior mental‑health hospitalizations and received extortion calls during the search, and provincial and national authorities had offered combined rewards of 15 million pesos for information.
- Provincial and consular authorities are arranging medical care and safe return to Argentina, and the regional prosecutor’s office now holds the case to determine why she traveled with another person’s DNI and whether any crimes occurred.