Port Angeles woman still missing at Sea-Tac Airport

PORT ANGELES — The search continues for a Port Angeles woman missing from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and an arrest warrant has been issued for her fiancé, Aaron Aung of Moscow, Idaho, for failing to return her her 2 year old daughter. biological mother.

Nadia Erika Cole, 21, has been missing since last week.

“The main thing is just trying to find her, our daughter, and hope she's safe,” Kirk Cole, Nadia's father, said Wednesday.

Cole said Nadia went missing at 3 p.m. on May 29 as they and Nadia's mother, Beata Cole, were preparing to board a flight to Italy for a three-week vacation to celebrate the recent graduation. degrees from Washington State University.

“She left her phone, which I thought was strange, and her carry-on (a small backpack) and went to the bathroom and never came back,” Cole said.

Sea-Tac security footage showed her leaving the airport wearing a black North Face jacket, a sage green or olive hoodie, black yoga pants and white Converse sneakers and carrying a bag shoulder strap in beige, he said.

Then she was last seen on Sound Transit security footage around 4 p.m. on May 29, getting off the streetcar at Third Avenue and University Street in downtown Seattle and walking toward the waterfront.

Cole said her fiancé had just left for a five-day fishing trip to Montana and was supposed to return his 2-year-old daughter, Seraya, in a custody exchange Monday, but that didn't happen. not produced.

That's when Aung's parents reported her and her daughter missing, and the Pullman Police Department issued a warrant for Aung's arrest for custody interference, a he declared.

Aung and Nadia Cole got engaged last fall.

“We conducted extensive interviews with the FBI (Tuesday),” Kirk Cole said. “Because of the baby, it’s a custody issue. We assume they are related, but we are not sure. But I'm a doctor and I don't believe in coincidences. The FBI treats them as two separate issues. It was just crickets.

Anyone with information on Cole's whereabouts is asked to call Seattle Port Police, who are leading the investigation, at 206-787-5401. No information is insignificant.

Anyone with information on Seraya's location should contact the Pullman Police Department at 509-334-0802 or contact their local law enforcement agency.

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Reporter Brian Gawley can be reached by email at [email protected].