A 13-year-old Greenville girl has been missing since the early morning hours of Saturday, September 5, after she was picked up by someone her family does not know and never brought home, according to deputies. The Greenville County Sheriff's Office says it is investigating the disappearance of Allisson Cabrera as a possible kidnapping.
Deputies say Cabrera left her house around 1 a.m. that Saturday and was picked up by an unknown individual, according to a report from WYFF. Her family has since been in contact with a possible suspect, but that person has not returned Allisson to them, the family told deputies. The sheriff's office says the investigation remains in its early stages and has promised to release more information as it develops.
Cabrera is described as Hispanic, 5 feet 5 inches tall, and weighing 143 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black shirt and white pants. Deputies have not released additional details about the identity or whereabouts of the person she left with.
Why No Amber Alert Has Been Issued
Some readers may wonder why a case described as a possible kidnapping hasn't triggered a statewide Amber Alert. Under South Carolina Law Enforcement Division guidelines, a statewide alert cannot be issued until local law enforcement confirms specific statutory criteria — including proof of an unlawful abduction, an immediate threat of serious bodily harm or death, reasonable exclusion of other explanations for the disappearance, and entry of the child's information into the FBI's National Crime Information Center, per the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. SLED also operates a central Missing Person Information Center that coordinates telecommunications, flyers, and inter-agency bulletins for all 46 county sheriff's offices in the state, a framework that would support Greenville County investigators as the case unfolds.
That threshold explains why missing-child reports, even ones investigators call suspicious, don't automatically produce an emergency broadcast alert in the first hours. The Greenville County Sheriff's Office has not said whether it has requested or is pursuing Amber Alert criteria in Cabrera's case, and the sheriff's office says the investigation is still in its early stages.
Potential Charges Under South Carolina Law
If investigators determine Cabrera was in fact abducted, South Carolina law treats kidnapping as a serious felony. Under South Carolina Code § 16-3-910, anyone who unlawfully seizes, confines, decoys, or carries away another person without legal authority faces up to 30 years in prison. If more than one person is found to have agreed or planned to carry out a kidnapping, South Carolina Code § 16-3-920 imposes the same 30-year maximum penalty on co-conspirators once any overt act toward the plan has been taken.
Because Cabrera is a minor, a felony kidnapping conviction involving her would also trigger a mandatory requirement that the offender register on South Carolina's Sex Offender Registry, since state law makes that registration automatic whenever the victim is under 18. No charges have been announced in this case, and deputies have said only that they are investigating a possible kidnapping.
How Greenville Deputies Have Tracked Missing Cases Before
Greenville County deputies have leaned on Flock Safety license plate reader technology in past missing-person cases; the cameras helped deputies track a missing mother and child across the border into Tennessee in July, as Hoodline previously reported. It's not yet known whether that same network is being used in the search for Cabrera.
Nationally, missing-child cases involving voluntary departures are still treated with urgency by law enforcement because of the elevated risk of exploitation once a minor is with an unknown third party. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children reports that youth who leave voluntarily account for 92 percent of the missing-child cases it handles, and the organization assisted with 32,167 such cases in 2025, resolving 29,013 of them for a 90 percent recovery rate. The FBI's National Crime Information Center logged 349,557 reports of missing youth under 18 in 2024, more than 65 percent of all missing-person records submitted to federal databases that year, and the FBI also maintains Child Abduction Rapid Deployment teams that can be sent to assist local agencies and that treat reported disappearances as potential abductions until proven otherwise.
Deputies have not said whether the FBI or SLED's statewide resources have been formally activated in Cabrera's case. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is urged to contact the Greenville County Sheriff's Office as the investigation continues.
