22 Year Old Alma Del Real Missing Since 4/12/15 in South Bend, IN (Update: Body Found Likely Missing Indiana Woman; 24 Year Old Alberto Cruz Arrested, Charged with Murder)

22 year old Alma Del Real has been missing since Sunday, April 12, 2015 in South Bend, Indiana. According to accounts, Alma Del Real hasn’t been seen since about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, when a friend dropped her off at her Ewing Street home after she left Studio Rumba 305, a nightclub on South Main Street. She has not been seen or heard from since and she never showed up for work on Monday. She was last seen wearing a light blue, skinny, ripped, high-waisted pants, a black crop top, and a tan, leather jacket. The South bend police department is asking for your help in locating  Alma Del Real.

Missing – Alma Del Real

Alma Del Real hasn’t been seen since about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, when a friend dropped her off at her Ewing Street home after she left Studio Rumba 305, a nightclub on South Main Street.

Del Real has had no contact with her friends of family, and she did not show up for work Monday, city police Capt. Phil Trent said in a news release. She also missed a conference she was supposed to attend with a friend in Chicago.

Del Real was last seen wearing ripped, light blue, slim-fitting pants, a black crop top and a tan fitted leather jacket. She is 5-foot-5, 137 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information about Del Real is asked to call the South Bend Police Department at 574-235-6480.

UPDATE I: Body found is likely that of missing Alma Del Real; Arrest made.

Police believe they have found the body of a missing 22-year-old South Bend woman, and a 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection to her death.

South Bend police say the body they believe belongs to Alma Del Real was found Wednesday in Marshall County. An autopsy is scheduled Thursday in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and police say they’re awaiting official confirmation that it’s Del Real.

According to police, the suspect was booked into St. Joseph County Jail Wednesday night on a preliminary charge of murder. St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter tells the South Bend Tribune that formal charges are expected within the coming days.

“I want to send out my heartfelt condolences to the family because I know as much of a toll it took on me and my personal family regarding this case, I can’t imagine what it has done to them,” Gobel said. “My little girl asked me every day if I found Alma yet, and today I get to go home and say we have.”

BREAKING: Body found in Culver identified as Alma Del Real. … 24-year-old Alberto Cruz arrested and charged with Murder.

Police booked 24-year-old Alberto Cruz into the St. Joseph County Jail on a preliminary charge of murder in Del Real’s death.

Metro Homicide Commander Tim Corbett says police were able to gather enough information from Cruz to locate Alma’s body in Marshall Count