Angelica Brophy is a lot of things to a lot of people. To her family, she\u2019s a hands-on mother of two who loves to laugh and who sings off-key.\u00a0To her co-workers, she\u2019s a dedicated emergency room nurse at the Kaiser Hospital in San Marcos.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To Oceanside Police, she\u2019s a missing person who hasn\u2019t been seen in more than a week.<\/p>\n
Brophy was last seen on July 6.\u00a0She visited Harrah\u2019s Casino that afternoon and then drove to Palomar Mountain, a place where she often hiked with friends and family.\u00a0When she didn\u2019t return home that night, her husband called Oceanside Police to file a missing persons report.<\/p>\n
Police tried pinging her cell phone, but it was either turned off or the battery was dead. Days later, Brophy\u2019s car was found in a parking lot at Palomar State Park.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t in it.<\/p>\n
Over the next 4 days, search-and-rescue teams walked the trails and searched the waters of Palomar but found nothing that led them to Angelica Brophy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a wait and see,\u201d said one of Brophy\u2019s five older brothers. \u201cI don\u2019t want to go to dark places,\u201d said Martin Fabregas, who flew in from Toronto to be with family in Oceanside. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to encourage everybody to stay positive, stay strong.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s hard to do as the family huddles together waiting for the phone to ring.\u00a0 Fabregas told NBC San Diego that every time the phone rings, his heart skips a beat, wondering whether the caller will deliver good or bad news.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all in a state of limbo right now and it\u2019s hard to move on without any leads,\u201d said Manny Fabregas, another brother of the missing woman.<\/p>\n
Family members have been spending their time putting up missing-person posters all over the North County, hoping that someone with information will help bring Angelica Brophy home. The posters are also making the rounds on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is one of the most wonderful, thoughtful women that I know,\u201d said sister-in-law Lisa Fabregas.\u00a0 \u201cShe\u2019s a very good mom. She will do anything for her children,\u201d she added. \u201cShe is funny and kooky, and will sing at the top of her lungs and will not have one note in tune, but she does not care.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe loves life and we really just need her back,\u201d said Lisa Fabregas.<\/p>\n
Oceanside Police Captain Nick Nunez told NBC San Diego there is no indication of foul play in Brophy\u2019s disappearance.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
He added that detectives are reaching out to the security detail at Harrah\u2019s Casino to see if anyone was with Brophy, or if anyone appeared to be following her.\u00a0 He did not know whether she\u2019d won a large sum of money at the casino, but said detectives are working to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n
If you have any information about Angelica Brophy\u2019s disappearance, Oceanside Police ask you to give them a call at (760) 435-4900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angelica Brophy is a lot of things to a lot of people. To her family, she\u2019s a hands-on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3282,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-397226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-oceanside","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}