She Went Silent in February. Now, Police Say Missing Woman May Be 'Held Against Her Will'

Authorities in two states are searching for a woman who went missing in February and is now feared to be held captive.

Shalene Ball, 35, of Sioux Falls, S.D., was last heard from in a Feb. 26 text, according to a South Dakota Missing Persons flier on Friday, April 18.

Her family said the last time most of them spoke to her was in January.

“Her family is very concerned for her safety and wellbeing,” according to the flier.

Also on Friday, April 18, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) and the West St. Paul Police Department put out its own flier saying they were trying to locate her.

“She is believed to be endangered as law enforcement has received information that she is being held against her will,” the BCA and the West St. Paul Police Department said in the flier.

It is believed that she was recently in West St. Paul or South St. Paul.

She may be traveling in a 2007 white Dodge Caravan, police say.

She is described as a white female, 5’1” tall, weighing 180 pounds with hazel eyes and brown hair.

Ball has a sternum dermal piercing and a “madonna/monroe piercing,” the South Dakota flier states, plus a tattoo on her neck of a smoking Woody Woodpecker.

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In a Facebook post on Thursday, April 17, Ashley Renae wrote, “My cousin Shalene Ball is missing. If anyone has any information please reach out to me or the Sioux Falls PD. 

“Her last known last location was in St. Paul Minnesota. I know someone has information please contact us!

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the West St Paul Police Department at 651-322-2323, the Sioux Falls Police Department at 605-367-7000 or 911.