24-year-old Sydney Marquez was last seen on Dec. 11.

West-Tex : It's unfortunate, but she is a 24 year old adult. The officers were in a situation where they couldn't violate her rights. It's a slippery slope for sure.

Catmae : Thanks!

Family of Texas A&M grad say she's 'safe and back' with loved ones
The family of Sydney Marquez said this weekend that the 24-year-old Texas A&M graduate reported missing in Houston three weeks ago is now safe.In a video posted Saturday night, Marquez's mother Luz said her daughter was in fact found Friday and "is getting the help that she needs." The statement comes hours after Marquez was turned into the Jersey Village Police Department, who her family said then released her without a hospital-based psychiatric evaluation."But thank God, thank God, all glory to God for guiding our steps," Luz Marquez said. "Right now she's getting the help that she needs, and I'm so grateful."An unknown individual reported seeing Marquez to Jersey Village police early Friday morning. But after meeting with Marquez, police said they "determined she was not a danger to herself or others, and the legal criteria for an Emergency Detention Order were not met." Police added that Jersey Village Fire Department EMS personnel "conducted a medical evaluation" of Marquez. She then "requested to leave of her own free will and advised that she did not want any assistance."In her video Saturday night, Luz Marquez said police "need to do a lot of work themselves." She added that she knows "who took her on Dec. 11" and partially blamed vape devices for issues concerning her daughter.Marquez was reported missing in Houston, with survelliance footage tracing her to a shopping center near the 9100 block of Bellaire Bouelvard in the early morning hours of Dec. 12. The 24-year-old reportedly left behind her phones, clothes and makeup in her car near Asiatown.On Sunday morning, Sydney Marquez' sister Kayla wrote on Facebook that her sibling had been found, "safe and back with the people who love her most.""Right now, we are focused on loving Sydney, protecting her, and supporting her as she gets the help she deserves," Kayla Marquez wrote. "Thank you to everyone who prayed, searched, checked in, and bever stopped believing she would come home."Family is everything."www.chron.com/news/h ouston-texas/article /sydney-marquez-miss ing-found-texasThank God for a happy ending! 🙏🏽

Woman once reported missing in Houston is arrested near Conroe
Sydney Marquez, a 24-year-old Texas A&M graduate, was first reported missing in Houston in December.
The AWARE Foundation Inc.A 25-year-old woman, who was the focus of a weeks-long missing persons search after her disappearance in Houston, has been arrested in Southeast Texas.Sydney Marquez, an El Paso native, was reported missing from a Houston shopping center in mid-December. After being located, records show Marquez had been arrested in Montgomery County.
At 12:13 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 16, Marquez was charged with one count of burglary of inhabitation, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. On Wednesday morning, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office confirmed Marquez remained in custody.The Conroe Police Department, the primary arresting agency, told Chron she was taken into custody from a Subway at 3001 N. Fraizer St. in connection with a burglary at a private residence in the 800 block of N. Rivershire Drive.
Sydney Marquez, once the focus of a weeks-long missing persons search in Houston, has been arrested in Montgomery County.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's OfficeNearly three weeks after her initial disappearance, Marquez was apprehended by Jersey Village police but was later released. On Jan. 4, her family officially reported her safe.Marquez's family has spoken publicly about her struggles with mental health, which officials previously said made their search for her even more urgent. Conroe police declined to comment on her mental state at the time of her arrest.News of Marquez's arrest went viral on the r/Houston Subreddit, where many users voiced concern for her safety and well-being. After Sydney was reported safe by her family in early January, her mother, Luz Marquez, said her daughter was "getting the help that she needs." Luz added that she knew "who took her on Dec. 11" and partially blamed vape devices for issues concerning her daughter.Sydney, who had been in Houston visiting a friend, was first reported missing near the 9100 block of Bellaire Blvd. On Dec. 11, she left behind her phones, clothes and makeup in an abandoned car near an Asiatown shopping center.Surveillance footage traced Sydney the night she went missing, roughly two-and-a-half miles from where her vehicle was recovered. Her father previously told NewsNation his daughter should've made a left turn towards her hotel, but instead was captured walking westbound down Harwin Drive.On Jan. 2, the 24-year-old was apprehended by authorities in the 160000 block of Seattle Street in Jersey Village after a concerned stranger called the police. Officials said Sydney had been released after they determined she was not a danger to herself or others, adding that EMS had conducted a medical evaluation on scene. "Sydney requested to leave of her own free will and advised that she did not want any assistance," police wrote in a statement. "She was released prior to her parents' arrival in Houston at her own request."Sydney's family alleged she was released without a hospital-based psychiatric evaluation, which they claimed was a necessity based on her "documented mental health issues."On the morning of Jan. 4, Sydney's sister Kayla posted to Facebook that Sydney was "safe and back with the people who love her most."It remains unclear what occurred in the two weeks after she was reported safe. Members of the Marquez family did not respond to Chron's request for comment by the time of publication.www.chron.com/news/h ouston-texas/article /sydney-marquez-miss ing-arrest-conr website&utm_campaign=another website_news