UPDATE: Missing Cutler woman found alive in the mountains, sheriff’s office says

A woman who was missing from Cutler since last week was found safe Sunday near Shaver Lake.

Presentacion M. Quinday was located around 2:30 p.m., the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said.

Quinday, 69, who also goes by the name ‘Precing,’ disappeared Thursday after a phone conversation with one of her daughters. Quinday told her daughter she’d failed a test at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Reedley because she’d forgotten to bring her glasses.

After days of searching, Tulare deputies found Quinday’s unoccupied 2007 Toyota Matrix around 2 a.m. in the mountains above Fresno. Quinday was then found southwest of Shaver Lake in “rough terrain,” according to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office.

A spokeswoman said Quinday was severely dehydrated and would be flown to a hospital.

Detectives on Sunday released an image captured on a surveillance camera that showed Quinday inside a store near Pine Flat in Fresno County. Investigators said the footage was captured around 4:15 p.m. Thursday, about five hours after Quinday last spoke with her family.

Quinday’s 70th birthday is on Thursday, Nov. 21, and the family had hoped to bring her home by then.

This story was originally published November 17, 2019 at 11:28 AM.