This is a developing story
UPDATE: As of Jan. 27 Contreras has been found safe according to family members on social media.
On Thursday, Jan. 23, Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) employee Rubie Contreras was last seen around 8:30 a.m. in Anaheim, Calif.
According to social media reports, Contreras attended a conference in California and was scheduled to return on Jan. 18 but did not.
Contreras was then reported missing by her family and, soon after, they began to post about her disappearance on social media.
Her family is actively searching in California right now. According to social media posts, Contreras’s cell phone is not on and location is unknown.