This week, the 18-year-old who disappeared from Arizona in 2019 and was found in Montana allegedly got into a fight with the man she was living with and vowed to “go back” before turning herself in to police the next day.

The Post reports that on Saturday, residents of the apartment building where Alicia Navarro was holed up with an unknown man could be heard arguing. Havre is located about 40 miles from the Canadian border.

The other day as I came by I could hear them screaming. It’s true that she promised to return. But that’s all I heard,” Garrett Smith, 22, a nearby resident, told The Post.

The day before she surrendered to the authorities.

The next day, Navarro walked into a police station and asked to be removed from the missing persons list so that she could apply for a driver’s license and resume her “normal life,” as reported by the police.

They said she “willfully left her home” in Glendale, Arizona in 2019, and she hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

Smith claims that she and a man in his twenties have lived in the Havre flat for nearly a year, though it’s unclear when Navarro arrived.

Days before Navarro went to the police station, Smith said he spoke to her for the first time, and she told him she was “looking for her uncle” at a post office.

A request for instructions was heard. He remarked, “She looked scared,” adding that it was obvious that she was lost.

“She said she was walking with her uncle and they got lost, and she’s looking for 6th Street,” Smith added. “I eventually learned that she was calling him her uncle.”

Megan Alexander, Smith’s 23-year-old girlfriend, said that the couple had seen Navarro enter a “random house” in hopes of locating assistance for Navarro.

Navarro addressed Smith as “mister,” which seemed strange to the 22-year-old man, who could tell that there wasn’t a huge age gap between them.

He noted the adolescent’s lack of dental care, his “scratchy voice,” and his fearful demeanor.

Her metal braces were unsightly. In 2019, she vanished from Arizona while wearing braces. Smith remarked, “It appeared that she was still wearing the same set of braces.”

Smith estimates that he saw the missing girl about 30 times when he was a resident of the apartment building, but this was the first time they had spoken.

He predicted, “I would see both of them walking out.” “Quite frequently. Once when they were leaving, I believe I spotted them holding hands.

They were reserved and withdrawn individuals.

After Smith told him he was from a city only nine miles from where Navarro disappeared three years ago, the nameless man staying with Navarro began avoiding him.

After I had settled in, he approached me and inquired what brought me to Havre. After I told him I was from Arizona, he seemed to shut down and leave. Smith remembered, “It was almost like he wanted to end the conversation because he didn’t want to discuss Arizona.

There were federal agents and dozens of police at the premises on Wednesday, he claimed.

The two women said he looks like them and is in his late twenties.

It is unknown if the man seized by police on Friday is the same person with whom Navarro shared her Havre flat before she vanished.

Navarro ran away from her family home days before she turned 15 and left a message that read: “I ran away. I promise to return. True story. I apologize.

Navarro was reported missing several years ago and was regarded as autistic but high-functioning at the time.

While police have maintained that Navarro is a victim, private detectives hired by her family revealed exclusively to The Post on Thursday that Navarro had “spoken briefly” to her mother but that she was unsure if she intended to come home.

Navarro assured authorities she was not being detained against her will, that she had no injuries, and that she could come and go as she pleased. She is not being prosecuted, according to the police.