As far as kidnapping cases go, the Nancy Guthrie case has been the most prominent in headlines after the 84-year-old Arizona grandmother with known medical issues was first reported missing by her family on February 1st.
As we've reported, there have been some notable developments in the case, like DNA from a glove found near her home, and video images of a potential suspect from the morning of Mrs. Guthrie's abduction - and perhaps video imagery from even earlier than that. But Guthrie, the mother of NBC Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie, frustratingly remains missing, with the family now acknowledging that she may no longer be alive, 25 days after she was last seen.
Fortunately, not all kidnapping stories have sad endings, as we recently learned from another case out of Arizona involving a three-year-old girl named Kehlani Rogers.
An Amber Alert was issued Saturday after Rogers was last seen in the late evening hours of Friday, February 20th:
AMBER ALERT SUSPECT: Avondale Police are looking for 23-year-old Marina Noriega in connection to the active AMBER alert.
— Mac Colson (@MacColsonTV) February 22, 2026
Surveillance video from a local business in the City of Maricopa confirms that Noriega was last seen with the 3-year-old victim Kehlani Rogers. pic.twitter.com/vvk44ZfQep
AMBER ALERT: 3-year-old Kehlani Rogers was last seen when her parents put her to bed at 11:30 p.m. in Avondale. The family says a woman they were helping left with the girl. https://t.co/0B8GJQae1v pic.twitter.com/9QAmII31a4
— 12 News (@12News) February 22, 2026
On Sunday, however, quick thinking by a security guard and a truck full of moving company employees who were stopped at a Phoenix QT convenience store led to Rogers' safe return:
Several employees from Camelback Moving were making a routine coffee stop at QuikTrip when the alert went off on their phones. Moments later, a security guard they knew approached them and said he believed the suspect had "just walked in with the child."
As the guard called 911, the movers positioned their trucks to block the vehicle he believed the suspect, Marina Noriega, was driving. Police arrived about 90 seconds later, a response that company founder Chad Olsen said likely helped ensure the child’s safe recovery.
Watch how it all went down - complete with the driver of the moving truck casually taking a bite out of a sandwich before initiating decisive action to block the pickup truck the suspect had been driving. The police arrived moments later:
🙌🏾 INCREDIBLE: Police recovered a missing 2-year-old girl in Avondale, AZ after workers from a local moving company spotted her.
— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) February 24, 2026
The company’s owner says they recently began training staff to spot and report human trafficking.
The training definitely paid off! BRAVO!! 👏🏾 pic.twitter.com/WSM9HaNaHl
A Valley moving crew played a vital role in safely locating a 3-year-old girl who was taken from the West Valley on Friday night. Ford Hatchett spoke to the owner of that company, who gave his employees nothing but praise. #abc15 pic.twitter.com/i13YjCwIKN
— ABC15 Arizona (@abc15) February 23, 2026
Camelback has said one of the things they are doing for the employees who helped save the day is to give them all a week off with pay so they could spend time with their own families:
We’re definitely working on something for our employees that were there. So far a week’s paid time off is official. Thought it was appropriate to give them time with their families for helping reunite this one.
— Camelback Moving (@CamelbackMoving) February 24, 2026
The moving company's founder, Chad Olsen, provided what is perhaps the quote of the day in response to this happy ending: "We’re a moving company, we’re not professional heroes. But we’re good people, and we do the right thing."
Indeed.
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