Taos County sheriff's officers are looking for a 14-year-old girl from Colorado who apparently ran away from her grandmother's house in Taos on Sunday, The Taos News reported.

Samantha Howell, 14, whose current home is in Grand Junction, Colo., was visiting family in Taos, where her mother, Cheryl Montoya, lives, the News reported.

"I went to my mother's house to visit her and no one was there," Montoya told the paper. "She'd packed two bags, but her jacket was still there."

Montoya said her sister, who is Howell's legal guardian, and her mother had gone to Taos Ski Valley around 7 a.m., leaving the girl behind at the house.

There was a note left at the grandmother's house that said "Found a way out of state," Montoya told the News.

Taos County Undersheriff Edward Romero said Howell had been entered into the National Crime Information Center in case she is picked up out of state, the News reported.

"We checked various residences here in Taos and have not been able to locate her," Romero told the paper. "We are in the process of looking into phone records to see who she may have called while she was in Taos."

Anyone with information on the girl's whereabouts is asked to call the Taos County Sheriff's Office at (505) 737-6480. 

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