UPDATE: Vanessa Baires has been located safe and unharmed.
Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police – Special Victims Investigations Division are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Vanessa Baires, a missing 14-year-old.
Baires was last seen on Sunday, March 1, 2026, at approximately 11:34 p.m., near the intersection of Purple Martin Ln. and Quail Valley Blvd. in Gaithersburg. She is 5-feet, 6-inches tall, with black and red hair, brown eyes with a nose piercing, and was last seen wearing a black “Essentials” sweatshirt and gray sweatpants.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Vanessa Baires is asked to call the Montgomery County Police Non-Emergency (301)279-8000 (24-hour line).
