Brooke Miller found safe, CRIT ends public safety alert

Brooke Chee Miller was found safe, and Colorado River Indian Tribes closed its missing-teen alert on June 24. The follow-up notice, posted at 3:03 p.m., ended a public safety search that began the day before on the tribe’s Manataba Messenger page.

The original alert went up June 23 at 1:23 p.m. and identified Brooke Chee Miller as 16 years old. The missing-child poster said she had last been seen April 15, 2026, in Laveen, Arizona. A National Center for Missing & Exploited Children poster carried the NCIC number M058906158 and listed a Phoenix Police Department contact number.

The short update mattered because it served as the final step in an alert that was meant to move quickly through a large, spread-out region. Arizona’s Turquoise Alert system is built for missing endangered people under 65, including tribal members, and is designed to push information rapidly once activation criteria are met. In La Paz County, where the Town of Parker and the Colorado River Indian Tribes both sit within the same local communication landscape, a direct post on a tribal outlet can be the fastest way to tell residents that a search has ended.

That geography helps explain the role CRIT plays as a communications hub. The reservation spans nearly 300,000 acres and about 90 miles of Colorado River shoreline, with its primary community in Parker. CRIT says it has about 4,277 active tribal members and is made up of the Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi and Navajo tribes. La Paz County’s own makeup, which includes Parker and CRIT, makes fast public notices especially important when families, law enforcement and community members need the same information at the same time.

The June 24 message did not add details about where Brooke was found or what led to the safe resolution. It did make clear that the concern had been resolved, the community could stand down, and the alert system had worked as intended.