Search continues for missing Montana woman

KALISPELL – The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in the search for a Flathead Valley woman who has been missing for a week.Alex Nicole Beltran, 23, was last seen on the evening of Monday, July 16, leaving a friend’s house on the west side of Kalispell.Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry said Beltran spent the day drinking with friends and was reportedly heading to her home in the Forest Acre area between Whitefish and Kalispell. She was last seen driving her 1998 Light Green Toyota Rav 4, MT plate 785019A.  Beltran is 5-feet, 9-inches tall, 130 pounds and has hazel eyes.Curry said her phone died shortly after she went missing and her bank cards have been inactive."After she left that residence we don’t know where she went," Curry said. "That’s what we’re still working on coming up with."Curry said they are searching from the air and on the ground, and they will continue to search until they find her."Detectives have worked throughout the weekend. Yesterday we had search and rescue volunteers out driving any of the possible routes that she may have taken. We had the Two Bear Air Rescue helicopter out tracking any of the routes she might have taken."Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact Flathead Crimestoppers at (406) 752-TIPS regarding case #201820894.