Police were able to save kidnapped toddler Kehlani Rogers after a security guard and local moving company worked together to rescue her at a QuikTrip parking lot in Phoenix.
A QuikTrip security guard and employees with Camelback Moving prevented Rogers’ captor from escaping with the girl.
🙌🏾 INCREDIBLE: Police recovered a missing 2-year-old girl in Avondale, AZ after workers from a local moving company spotted her.
The company’s owner says they recently began training staff to spot and report human trafficking.
The training definitely paid off! BRAVO!! 👏🏾 pic.twitter.com/WSM9HaNaHl
— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) February 24, 2026
Two-year-old Rogers went missing from Avondale two days after a homeless drug addict from California, Marina Michele Noriega, 23, kidnapped Rogers from her home. Noriega was captured after having driven to the gas station in a truck with Texas plates. It is unclear who owned the truck, since Noriega later told police she didn’t have a car in addition to lacking money, job, and housing.
“Kehlani is in good health and [we] do not believe that she was harmed during this ordeal,” stated Avondale Police Department.
The company gave a week of paid time off to the workers involved in saving Rogers: Robert Hernandez, Ralph Vollmert, Christopher Dixon, Kevin Place, Kevin Kimes, Gerardo Galacia, Kobe Brown, and Michael Macallum.
QuickTrip security guard C. Edmonds notified the moving company employees of Rogers and Noriega. The men coordinated to drive their moving trucks to prevent Noriega from escaping, which gave police time to arrive at the scene. The men also took down the license plate number of the vehicle and recorded the incident on one of their truck cameras.
Camelback Moving president Chad Olsen expressed pride in his employees’ involvement.
“We’re movers, not professional heroes. My employees, you know, we share the same core values of community and being proactive,” said “Thought it was appropriate to give them time with their families for helping reunite this one.”
Couldn’t be more proud of our crews for getting involved in playing a part in the return of this amber alert victim. pic.twitter.com/ROeu4fohEY
— Camelback Moving (@CamelbackMoving) February 23, 2026
According to a statement from Camelback Moving, the company had recently engaged in Truckers Against Trafficking training to make employees prepared for possible encounters with human trafficking.
Court documents revealed that Rogers’ parents invited Noriega to stay in their home after learning she was homeless. Rogers’ parents didn’t know Noriega prior to that fateful night last weekend.
Come the next morning after they invited Noriega to stay in their home, Rogers’ parents filed a police report upon discovering their daughter and Noriega were missing. An Amber alert was issued shortly thereafter.
Tips during the search for Rogers indicated that Noriega planned to take Rogers with her on a train to California. Noriega later told police while in custody that she wasn’t planning on heading to California, and admitted she had smoked methamphetamine while in possession of Rogers.
One of multiple Facebook pages that appear to be associated with Noriega revealed that she self-identified with the LGBTQ+ community and was originally from California. Two separate accounts revealed that she once lived in Brawley and Sacramento.
Court records indicate that Noriega has a warrant for her arrest in Lake County, California in relation to a felony assault case.
In this case of the abduction of Rogers, Noriega faces one count of custodial interference, a class three felony.
Noriega’s criminal record in California, which stretches back to at least 2022, includes other instances of drug possession, shoplifting, assault, resisting an officer, and grand theft.
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