Montgomery County police are asking the public to help locate Alanis Granados Leon, 14, of Silver Spring. Detectives from the department’s Special Victims Investigations Division are asking the public for assistance, according to the police notice.
Police are seeking help locating Granados Leon.
The department is asking the public for assistance in locating her.
Reporting and alert procedures
Maryland State Police says there is no waiting period to report someone missing. Montgomery County Police’s written directive says officers handling missing-child reports should enter the child in NCIC immediately via MRC.
An AMBER Alert has additional criteria and is not the standard for making a missing-person report. The Maryland Department of State Police says police must confirm a child under 18 was abducted, believe the child faces serious harm or death, have information that could help locate the child, believe the child remains in the area and enter the child’s information into NCIC before activating an alert.
The wider missing-child response
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children reported handling 602 missing-child cases from Maryland in 2022: 261 involving children missing from a social services facility, 257 other missing-child cases and 84 children reported missing by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Those figures count cases handled by the organization, not all children reported missing in Maryland.
Nationally, NCMEC said it assisted law enforcement with 29,568 missing-child cases in 2024 and helped bring 91% of those children home, according to its 2024 figures. The national totals describe NCMEC’s work overall and do not indicate what has happened in Granados Leon’s case.
