Cataleya Angel Gomez was 17 years old when she was reported missing from Mesa, Arizona, with the case information identifying February 13, 2026, as her last-seen date. Cataleya is a female teenager, and later public missing-person notices described her as Hispanic, with brown hair and green eyes. The publicly available record surrounding her disappearance is unusually sparse, leaving many of the circumstances of that February day undocumented.
There is no widely published account explaining where in Mesa she was last known to be that day, who last saw or spoke with her, what she was wearing, whether she had a telephone or other belongings with her, or what investigators believed her immediate plans may have been. For a family searching for a teenager, those missing details leave a painful gap: a young woman was gone, yet the public had very little information with which to recognize where she might have gone or what may have happened after she was last seen.
As 2026 continued, Cataleya's name appeared again in Arizona missing-child records. MissingNoMore published an alert identifying Cataleya Angel Gomez and stating that she had been reported missing from Mesa on May 13, 2026. That organization continued to direct anyone with information about her whereabouts to the Mesa Police Department. The available online material does not explain whether the May report was connected to the February disappearance, whether Cataleya had been located between the two reports, or whether one of the dates reflected an administrative or reporting discrepancy. Because those facts have not been clearly established in the public record, it would be misleading to assume what occurred during the intervening period. What is clear is that Cataleya continued to be the subject of concern and that organizations devoted to locating missing children were still circulating her name and photograph months into the year.
By August, another public appeal involving Cataleya had been issued. FOX 10 Phoenix, relying on information supplied by law enforcement, reported on August 14 that the Mesa Police Department was searching for Cataleya and that she had last been seen leaving her home on foot near Warner Road and Signal Butte Road in Mesa. Authorities did not know what clothing she had been wearing when she left, an important limitation because clothing descriptions are often among the most useful details available to members of the public who may have encountered a missing person. The area around Warner and Signal Butte is in southeast Mesa and provides access to residential neighborhoods, businesses, major surface streets, and routes leading beyond the immediate neighborhood, meaning that simply knowing Cataleya had left on foot did not establish where she went afterward. Police asked anyone with information to contact the Mesa Police Department at 480-644-2211. FOX 10 described the cases on its 2026 missing-person page as current, active reports supplied by law-enforcement agencies at the time they were published.
A separate missing-child alert subsequently listed Cataleya as having been last seen on August 11, 2026, in Mesa and provided additional identifying information, including her middle name, Angel, brown hair and green eyes. That alert also directed tips to both the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Mesa Police Department. The difference between the August 11 date carried by the missing-child listing and the August 14 date under which FOX 10 published the Mesa Police information appears to reflect the difference between a last-seen date and the date a public appeal was circulated rather than necessarily a conflict about when she disappeared. The online information remains limited, however, and no reliable public source located provides a detailed account of Cataleya's movements after she left home, identifies anyone known to have been accompanying her, reports that she entered a vehicle, or gives a confirmed destination.
The repeated appearance of Cataleya's name in missing-person alerts during 2026 makes the publicly documented timeline difficult to reconstruct with certainty. Available sources identify reports in February, May, and August, but they do not provide enough information to establish how those episodes were related or to responsibly fill in the periods between them. There is also no reliable public information located describing criminal activity connected to her disappearance, identifying a suspect, or establishing that anyone was responsible for her being missing. The most recent detailed public reporting found continued to present Cataleya as a teenager whose whereabouts were being sought and asked the public to provide information to Mesa police. At its heart, the case is the story of a 17-year-old girl from Mesa whose disappearance generated repeated appeals for help but very few publicly released details. Investigators and organizations searching for her have depended heavily on the possibility that someone saw Cataleya after she left home, communicated with her, knew where she intended to go, or possesses information that could explain what happened next; until reliable information establishes otherwise, those unanswered questions remain central to understanding Cataleya Gomez's disappearance.Last Seen: Feb 13, 2026
