Update: Detectives with the Broward Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit are releasing an updated photo and additional information on missing 18-year-old Julia Piesche. 

A missing persons alert was issued for Piesche on Wednesday, Feb. 26, after she was last seen at approximately 8 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23, near the 1400 block of Southwest Ninth Avenue in Deerfield Beach. 

Piesche, who is about 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs around 130 pounds, and has black hair and hazel eyes, is now believed to have been wearing a purple hoodie and black leggings when she went missing. Additionally, detectives now say she has a small heart tattoo on her upper right cheek, a butterfly on her left hand, a large black-and-white tattoo on her left arm, and a quote-style tattoo on her right inner arm. 

According to her family, she experiences mental illness.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact BSO Detective Leonard Charla at 954-321-4274 or the BSO non-emergency number at 954-764-HELP (4357).