Maui Woman’s Family Pleads for Her Safe Return After She Went Missing in Los Angeles

Near the Los Angeles Metro stop, where a missing Maui woman was last seen over ten days ago, her family issued an impassioned appeal Thursday. On November 11, the day she was spotted with an unidentified individual, Hannah Kobayashi’s phone tracker went blank. That evening, she exited the metro at the Pico station, which is close to the Crypto.com Arena. At a protest, family members described the events leading up to her disappearance and the hints that the 30-year-old might be in danger. Larie Pidgeon, her aunt, stated: “If someone has her, I want you to look at the pictures that we have posted. I want you to see this family, and I want you to know that she is so loved and she is so special and kind and if she met you in any other circumstance, she would help you. She would help you. So please don’t hurt her and please give us back our Hannah,”  “There’s been a lot of misinformation of, you know, is Hannah having a psychotic break? Has Hannah had any mental illness? She has not, nor has she ever had any mental illness,”  On Friday, November 8, Kobayashi missed her connecting flight out...