Missing Dacula Georgia State Student Found Safe

DACULA, GA -- A Georgia State student from Dacula who had been missing since Friday has been found safe, Gwinnett County Police say.

"Monique Priester (missing GSU student) has been found safe," police spokeswoman Cpl. Michele Pihera said in a brief statement. "For confidentiality reasons, her location will not be disclosed."

Priester, 21, had last been heard from Friday, when she told her mother she was sharing a Lyft ride from Georgia State's downtown campus to her Dacula home.

Her family, which has shared her story and posted photos on social media sites in hopes of finding Monique, said she had used another ride-sharing service, Uber, to go downtown earlier in the day.

On Monday, Priester's mother, Jacqueline VanLoo-Al Kush told the Gwinnett Daily Post that someone appears to have used Priester's credit card in Nashville, Tennessee, either over the weekend or early Monday.

During the phone call with her mother, Priester reportedly said she was somewhere in West End, where the Lyft driver was picking up another passenger.

That call was at about 6:15 p.m. Friday and her mother said she didn't sound like anything was wrong during the conversation.

Gwinnett County Police said Monday that Priester had had an argument with her stepfather earlier Friday. A release from the department also said her cellphone appears to have been turned off since then.