The family of a missing Maui woman says police are investigating suspicious Venmo payments

Police are investigating suspicious payments made by a Hawaiian woman who went missing over two weeks ago in Los Angeles.

According to family With Hannah Kobayashi30-year-old photographer from MauiPolice are investigating two payments she made via Venmo to a man and a woman on Nov. 9, shortly before her disappearance and just after she missed a connecting flight from Los Angeles to New York. USA Sun.

One of the payments was sent at 6:25 p.m. to a woman named Veronica Almendarez and was marked with a bow and arrow emoji.

Less than an hour later, at 7:19 p.m., Kobayashi made a second payment to a man named Jonathan Taylor, titled “reading.” According to sources familiar with the investigation, the payment was for tarot card readings.

The woman’s aunt, Larie Pidgeon, told the agency that the search remains focused on downtown Los Angeles and that they remain hopeful they will find Kobayashi alive.

She asked people “across the country to keep an eye out in case she is taken outside California.”

“We are considering all possibilities, hotels, metro, buses, train stations,” she said.

It is unclear exactly how many payments she sent before she was last contacted on November 11.

That’s when Kobayashi’s family said they received a “strange and mysterious” message from the woman’s phone suggesting she had been “intercepted” while boarding the subway and expressing concern that someone was trying to steal her identity.

“When the family started pushing, it fizzled out,” Pidgeon told the Associated Press on Saturday. She said that after November 11, the phone “just died.”

Pidgeon did not describe the lyrics in detail. She said the family reviewed surveillance footage of her near the Pico subway station in downtown Los Angeles and an unidentified person who Pidgeon said “misled” them.

“We think she just trusted the wrong person,” she said USA today.

Kobayashi’s disappearance is unfortunately not the only tragedy the family experiences.

Early Sunday morning at the body of Hanna’s fatherRyan Kobayashi was found near Los Angeles International Airport. The county coroner’s report shows that the 58-year-old flew to Los Angeles to look for his daughter and most likely committed suicide.

The coroner’s report listed the cause of death as suicide due to multiple blunt force injuries.

Pidgeon said USA today that Kobayashi’s father died of a “broken heart”.

“Being on the street and seeing what the options were for where his daughter could be. No sleep. Speculative rumors circulating. It just took a toll on him,” she said.

Meanwhile, volunteers from Los Angeles gathered to help search for any signs of Kobayashi.