A search is underway for a missing 16-year-old Temecula girl who was last seen near her high school campus and never came home that night. Breana Rose Clavel was spotted by acquaintances near Great Oak High School, in the 44000 block of Deer Hollow Way near Pechanga Parkway, before she disappeared.
According to the MyNewsLA.com report, Clavel's loved ones filed a missing person report after she failed to return home, and the Riverside County Sheriff's Department subsequently reported her disappearance. Sheriff's officials say Clavel had no known whereabouts as of Tuesday. The area where she was last seen sits in southernmost Temecula, adjacent to the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians tribal reservation and Pechanga Resort, according to a report from Patch.
What Breana Was Wearing When She Disappeared
Clavel is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighing just under 100 pounds, with brown eyes and brown bobbed hair, per the same account from MyNewsLA.com. She was last seen wearing a gray-blue T-shirt with an unknown print, oversized baggy black pants, and olive-colored shoes, and she was carrying a purple backpack.
Great Oak High School, where Clavel was reportedly seen before vanishing, is part of the Temecula Valley Unified School District and enrolled roughly 2,946 students in grades 9 through 12 during the 2024-2025 school year, according to Niche. Under California Education Code Section 49068.6, law enforcement agencies are required to notify a missing child's school district in writing within 10 days of a reported disappearance so a formal missing notice can be placed on the student's academic record, per FindLaw.
How to Report Information
Authorities are asking anyone with information about Clavel's whereabouts to contact the Riverside County Sheriff's Department at 800-950-2444. The department contracts its municipal police services to Temecula through the Southwest Sheriff's Station, which also maintains a local Missing Person Tip Line, according to Patch.
Under California Department of Justice regulations, law enforcement agencies must accept missing person and runaway reports immediately, without enforcing any waiting period, per the California Department of Justice. That immediacy matters in a county where missing-youth reports are common: Riverside County agencies logged 5,197 total missing children reports in 2025, resulting in 3,953 children returned and 1,100 located, according to the department's annual statistical report.
A Pattern Playing Out Across the Region
Clavel's case follows a similar disappearance just north in Murrieta, where law enforcement requested a statewide Feather Alert earlier this month after a 14-year-old girl went missing on foot near Nighthawk Way, as Hoodline previously reported. The California Highway Patrol manages several targeted notification systems beyond the traditional Amber Alert, including Feather Alerts for missing Indigenous individuals and Ebony Alerts for missing Black youth ages 12 to 25, under California Government Code Section 8594.14, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Nationally, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children assisted in 32,167 missing children cases in 2025, with 90 percent of those children recovered and 92 percent of total cases involving runaway situations, according to the organization. The investigation into Clavel's disappearance remains active, and the specific circumstances behind why she never returned home have not been disclosed.
