A brief search for a missing teenager in Santa Cruz ended successfully on Saturday. 15-year-old Priscilla Maldonado was reported missing just after midnight on New Year’s Morning, after she had become separated from her family. The Los Banos family was in Santa Cruz to celebrate New Year’s. Santa Cruz Police conducted a city-wide search, and found Maldonado’s dog, before locating Priscilla in a house in Santa Cruz at 12:30 p.m. She was safely reunited with her family.