Orange Police Seek Help to Find Missing Woman

Police are seeking the public’s help to locate a 22-year-old woman who mysteriously disappeared after work last Sunday.

“She left two young children behind with no arrangements of any kind, and she just doesn’t do that,” Orange Police Lt. Ed Tunstall said of Diana Garcia Luna.

Luna was last seen at 3 a.m. Sunday when she gave a co-worker a ride home from Peppers Night Club in Garden Grove, where she worked nights part-time as a waitress, police said.

At 7 a.m., her roommate discovered Luna’s car and other personal belongings at the apartment they share in the 4600 block of West Chapman Avenue. But Luna was gone and has not contacted friends or family since, Tunstall said.

She has not been to her day job in Santa Ana, near Main Street and MacArthur Boulevard, nor to Peppers, and she has not answered her pager, he said.

“There was a day planner that she normally keeps with her that was at the house along with her car,” Tunstall said. “There’s no indication that she left for anything planned or unplanned.”

Luna’s parents, who are now caring for her children, first reported their daughter missing to UC Irvine Police. Tunstall did not know why they chose that agency, but may have done so when they went looking for their daughter at UCI Medical Center.

Orange police received the case Thursday morning and detectives have spent hours interviewing friends, co-workers and family for clues.

“We’ve got very little,” Tunstall said. “The detectives have worked two days just trying to get information.”

A manager at Peppers said he had been instructed by police not to discuss the case. But he described Luna as hard-working and responsible.

“She’s a very good person and she’s liked here a lot,” said the manager, who declined to give his name. “People here are concerned.”

She is described as 5-foot-3 and 100 pounds.

Anyone with information on Luna or her whereabouts, or anyone who may have seen her after 3 a.m. Sunday, is asked to call the Orange Police Department at (714) 744-7403 or Det. Matt Miller at (714) 744-7556.