Hania Aguilar, 13, was taken from the front yard of her family home in North Carolina on November 5, 2018. Local police and the FBI have joined forces to find her and bring her kidnapper to justice. Keep reading this Hania Aguilar wiki to learn what we know so far about the missing teen and her case.
For Hania Noelia Aguilar, Monday, November 5 started off as just a normal day. She was getting ready to go to school that morning when she went outside to start her aunt’s SUV in the Rosewood Mobile Home Park in Lumberton, near East Elizabethtown Road.
As the 13-year-old patiently waited outside her home next to the idling vehicle, a green 2003 Ford Expedition, the unthinkable happened.
Just before 7:00 a.m., a man dressed all in black, save for a yellow bandanna covering his face, approached Aguilar, forced her into her aunt’s SUV, and drove off down the street.
The entire incident happened so quickly that neighbors who witnessed the kidnapping didn’t know how to react.
As soon as Aguilar’s aunt realized what had happened, she immediately ran to the home of a nearby neighbor and called the police. Since she was speaking in Spanish, frantically explaining what had just happened, the dispatcher had to put a translator on the line.
In the time since Aguilar’s disappearance a lot of progress has been made in the investigation, but not enough to actually locate the eighth grader or her abductor. Here’s what we know so far about Hania Aguilar and the events leading up to her kidnapping.
Hania Aguilar was born on March 21, 2005.
It’s unclear whether Aguilar, a student at Lumberton Junior High School, wasn’t very active on social media (which is unusual for a child her age) or if her social media accounts are under another name or have been shut down since the investigation began. Either way, she doesn’t seem to have much of a social media presence at all.
Ironically, law enforcement involved in the case, including the local police department and the North Carolina FBI, are using all online mediums to find information that could lead to a suspect or help them locate Aguilar.
Hania Aguilar is described as a Hispanic girl with brown eyes and long black hair. She is five feet tall and weighs approximately 125 pounds. During the time of her abduction, she was wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt that had flowers on it.
One of the scariest things about this case is that Hania Aguilar was standing right outside her home in broad daylight when she was unexpectedly taken. And the abductor used her own family’s vehicle to commit the crime.
The FBI has released surveillance videos showing an unidentified man walking in and around the area where the kidnapping took place just before it happened.
At this time, they’re not claiming that the man is a suspect or a person of interest, but they do believe he could be a witness. They are interested in speaking with him to find out if he has any information that could lead to Aguilar’s whereabouts.
An #AmberAlert has now been issued for 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who was kidnapped from Lumberton, NC this morning.
Authorities don’t believe that Aguilar knew her abductor, and they’re not sure if this was a targeted crime or if she was randomly chosen.
On November 8, two days after Hania Aguilar was kidnapped from her home, her aunt’s vehicle was discovered less than 10 miles away from the Rosewood Mobile Home Park on Quincey Drive.
Police immediately began scouring the vehicle and the area around it, trying to find more clues as to what could’ve happened to Aguilar and where her kidnapper may have taken her.
All the evidence uncovered inside the vehicle was sent away to a crime lab in Quantico, Virginia. Authorities have yet to reveal if they found anything noteworthy or useful to the investigation inside the SUV.
Anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest or the recovery of Hania Aguilar will be rewarded with $30,000. The FBI will provide $25,000 and the rest will be from North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.
Initially the reward was worth $15,000, but it increased in value when it became evident that this would be an extensive, ongoing investigation. Authorities are working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to find Aguilar.