Dallas police seek person of interest in disappearance of Marisela Botello, Seattle woman last seen in Deep Ellum

Dallas police say they are looking for a person of interest connected to the case of a missing Seattle woman who hasn’t been seen since she visited Deep Ellum more than three weeks ago.

Police said they are looking for Charles Beltran. They did not provide a detailed physical description but said he was driving a black 2014 Audi A6 with Texas license plates MJG-3114 in the early-morning hours of Oct. 5 — the day 23-year-old Marisela Botello disappeared.

Family members have said that Botello had flown to Dallas at the beginning of the month to visit an ex-boyfriend.

The night of Oct. 4, she took a Lyft alone to Deep Ellum. The ex became concerned and called her family when she didn’t come back, NBC News reported. Her belongings had been left at his home, and she didn’t get on her flight home.

“She was scheduled to fly back to Seattle that Monday,” her aunt Dennesly Castillo told Dateline. “But she never made the flight.”

Family told the network that security footage appeared to show Botello leaving Select Start, a bar in the 2800 block of Elm Street, with a man about 1:15 a.m. Oct. 5 and that she last used her cellphone about 4 a.m.

Dallas police have not released additional information about the case.

Botello is described as a Hispanic woman who is 5-2 and about 115 pounds, with dark brown eyes and dark brown hair. She was last seen wearing a metallic purple dress, and she has a distinctive mole on the middle of her neck, as well as tattoos on her left side and right hand.

Police said Beltran and his vehicle have not been seen since Oct. 5.

Anyone with information about may contact police at 911 or 214-671-4268 and refer to case No. 177834-2020.