The body believed to be that of missing 18-year-old Ashanti Riley has been found.

Following intelligence received a party of officers from the Anti-Kidnapping Unit and the Homicide Bureau went to a forested area in La Canoa, Santa Cruz at around 8:05 this morning.

During the operation they discovered the body of Ms. Riley in a watercourse about 60 feet from the roadway.

The teen was last seen at around 4.15 pm last Sunday, when she left in a PH taxi heading to San Juan for her grandmother’s birthday.

Footage captured on CCTV shows her stepping into a Nissan Almera car.

The driver was detained on Monday.

Ms. Riley was a 5^th form pupil of the Aranguez North Secondary School.