Missing 12-year-old girl found safe in Las Vegas

Pricilla was last seen around 5:30 p.m. Sunday in a shopping center on Indian Trail Road, near Lilburn. Her uncle, Joey Thompson, said he and Pricilla were selling flowers when he went into a store and briefly left her alone. When he returned, she was gone.

Surveillance video released Wednesday showed the girl, wearing jeans and holding a jacket, walking toward the parking lot. Another picture shows a side view of a white passenger van. Pricilla's family believes she may have gotten into that van.

Thompson told police a woman named Nancy, who Pricilla had befriended a week before, may have been in the white van. But police didn't have any more to go on.

Thursday, Pricilla began to call Thompson from a blocked number. She told him she was in a building with a lot of people and they wouldn't let her leave.

When investigators took the phone, they spoke to Pricilla and she "indicated she didn't want to go home and claimed she was at a Kroger in Atlanta," police said in a release. "She never indicated she was in any sort of fear or danger and claimed she was fine."

Police traced the number to an intersection in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Police found her there.

"Pricilla informed LVPD that she caught a bus to Las Vegas and had been there for one or two days," Gwinnett police said. "LVPD placed her into the care of Child Services."

Pricilla's mother, Julia Ristick, told Channel 2 Action News earlier this week that her daughter called a few hours after her disappearance.

"She told me, ‘Mom, I can't get away,'" Ristick told Channel 2. "I told her, ‘Come home. Try to figure out a way out of there,' and she said, ‘I can't. I don't know where I am.'"

-- Staff writers Alexis Stevens and Kristi E. Swartz contributed to this report.