A 15-year-old girl from Colorado Springs has not been seen in more than two weeks, and state investigators are now asking the public to help find her. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued a Missing Indigenous Person Alert for Maleena Suazo, who was last seen on October 5 in the 1300 block of Potter Drive.
Suazo is described as an Indigenous female, 5 feet 1 inch tall and 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Anyone who spots her is asked to call 911 or the Colorado Springs Police Department at 719-444-7000. The agency shared the alert publicly through a post from its X account, cbi_colorado, flagging the case as a Missing Indigenous Person Alert activation.
The alert comes through a program state lawmakers created just a few years ago specifically to broadcast notice when an Indigenous person goes missing. On July 1, 2022, the governor signed SB 22-150, which established the Office of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives along with the Missing Indigenous Person Alert system. Under that same legislation, the bureau is required to maintain a clearinghouse database tracking missing Indigenous persons from Colorado and to produce an annual report on the issue, according to the Colorado General Assembly.
A Familiar Address, A Different Timeline
Potter Drive has appeared in Suazo's case before. In a separate incident roughly a year earlier, The Gazette reported that a Maleena Ruth Suazo was last seen on foot around 7:30 a.m. on October 29, 2025, in the same 1300 block of Potter Drive, described then as an Indigenous female with dark brown, shoulder-length hair and brown eyes, standing about 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighing 120 pounds. That report, too, asked anyone with information to call 911 or the Colorado Springs Police Department at the same number now listed in the current alert.
Weeks after that, a report from KKTV described a 14-year-old Indigenous female from the Navajo Nation, also named Maleena Suazo, last seen near the 1300 block of Potter Drive at 9:30 p.m., wearing a blue jacket and gray sweatpants, with a pierced nose and braces. The station's coverage said she was found safe, though it gave conflicting dates for that update: one KKTV report put the recovery on November 26, 2025, while another, separate KKTV update cited November 3 as the date the bureau said she had been found.
What the Current Alert Says
For now, the bureau's public notice contains only the basics: Suazo's physical description, the Potter Drive location where she was last seen, and the instruction to call authorities if she is spotted. The alert notes that media inquiries should go through the requesting law enforcement agency rather than the bureau directly. No additional details about her clothing, a current photograph, or the circumstances of her disappearance have been released.
The Missing Indigenous Person Alert system exists precisely for cases like this, giving investigators a formal mechanism to push a missing person's description statewide rather than relying solely on local notices. Colorado Springs police and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation are continuing to seek information from anyone who may have seen Suazo since October 5.
