04-08-2011, 07:37 PM
ABC7News
DENVER -- Police searching for a missing Aurora teen and evidence of her whereabouts are searching in locations outside of Denver, including just outside a Weld County landfill.
Denver police said the Kenia Monge case is the police department's top priority.
On Friday, detectives released cell phone pictures of Monge at the 24K Lounge taken on the night she disappeared.
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7NEWS has learned exclusively that DPD investigators were at a landfill in Keenesberg earlier this week and were searching along County Road 59, just outside the landfill site, for evidence.
While Denver police won't get into specific search locations, they have made it clear, they're looking for Kenia in several different places, far from this nightclub in Lower Downtown.
Her family said the 19-year-old abruptly left the nightclub just around 12:30 a.m. on April 1. They said she left behind her purse and cell phone. Police said Monge was last seen at a gas station about two miles away at 3 a.m.
When 7NEWS asked police Lt. Matt Murray if Monge was in danger, Murray replied, "Anybody who has been missing as long as she has you would suspect would be in danger. With no contact with her friends and family, you'd have to be concerned."
The pictures released on Friday were taken from a cell phone but police won't say who took the pictures and whose cell phone was use.
"I hope folks take a look at these pictures," Murray said. "If they recognize or have any information about her, let us know right away."
Kenia was last seen wearing a black tank top, black skirt and red high heels. Police won't identify the people seen on the picture with her, and if they were her friends or if they were people she met that night.
Based on their discussions and investigations, police don't think Kenia ran away. Police are still calling this a missing person's case, unless they find some evidence that shows otherwise.
She hasn't talked to anyone since the night she disappeared and that's unlike her, her friends and family said.
The FBI and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children are assisting in the investigation.
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DENVER -- Police searching for a missing Aurora teen and evidence of her whereabouts are searching in locations outside of Denver, including just outside a Weld County landfill.
Denver police said the Kenia Monge case is the police department's top priority.
On Friday, detectives released cell phone pictures of Monge at the 24K Lounge taken on the night she disappeared.
Click here to find out more!
7NEWS has learned exclusively that DPD investigators were at a landfill in Keenesberg earlier this week and were searching along County Road 59, just outside the landfill site, for evidence.
While Denver police won't get into specific search locations, they have made it clear, they're looking for Kenia in several different places, far from this nightclub in Lower Downtown.
Her family said the 19-year-old abruptly left the nightclub just around 12:30 a.m. on April 1. They said she left behind her purse and cell phone. Police said Monge was last seen at a gas station about two miles away at 3 a.m.
When 7NEWS asked police Lt. Matt Murray if Monge was in danger, Murray replied, "Anybody who has been missing as long as she has you would suspect would be in danger. With no contact with her friends and family, you'd have to be concerned."
The pictures released on Friday were taken from a cell phone but police won't say who took the pictures and whose cell phone was use.
"I hope folks take a look at these pictures," Murray said. "If they recognize or have any information about her, let us know right away."
Kenia was last seen wearing a black tank top, black skirt and red high heels. Police won't identify the people seen on the picture with her, and if they were her friends or if they were people she met that night.
Based on their discussions and investigations, police don't think Kenia ran away. Police are still calling this a missing person's case, unless they find some evidence that shows otherwise.
She hasn't talked to anyone since the night she disappeared and that's unlike her, her friends and family said.
The FBI and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children are assisting in the investigation.