UPDATE Jan. 5:

Sheriff’s Homicide Detectives are continuing their investigation of missing teen, Sarah Katlyn Alarid, of Santa Clarita, who was last seen when she left a friend’s home in the early morning hours of January 1, 2013.

Detectives have searched several locations with the assistance of the Santa Clarita Valley Station Search and Rescue Team and the LASD Aero Bureau throughout the day, Friday, January 4, 2013. Detectives are currently conducting interviews and are following leads in the investigation.

 Jan. 4:

Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are seeking the public’s assistance in locating 19-year-old Sarah Katlyn Alarid.

The missing person, Sarah Alarid, was last seen leaving a friend’s residence on Poppy Meadow Street in Santa Clarita between 3:30 and 4:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 1st, 2013. She left in a 2002 Ford Focus, silver, 4-door, with a faded decal of the pink cancer ribbon on the left side of the rear window, California License #4WXE737, and has not been heard from since.

Alarid was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, ripped blue jeans, a red sweater and a blue and gray plaid sweater. She is 5′ 05″, 110 lbs., has reddish brown hair and hazel eyes.

Tattoos: A tattoo of a gun on her left middle finger, a tattoo of a flower on her right middle finger, a tattoo of a skull on her right shoulder, a tattoo of three bats on her left calf, a tattoo of a moon containing the face of the character “Oogie Boogie” from the Nightmare Before Christmas movie on her right calf, under the moon on her right calf is two trees covered in some fog, a tattoo of a red and black sun on her inner left forearm, two lip piercings, a tongue piercing and ear gauges in both ears.

Her family is very concerned and is also asking for the public’s assistance.

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau, Missing Person’s Detail at (323) 890-5500. If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call “Crime Stoppers” by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), or texting the letters TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or by using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org.