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slideshow: the strange case of a deported teen's double life as a Colombian
November 2010: Jakadrien Turner, 14, runs away from home in Dallas, Texas after her parents split up and her grandfather passes away. She ends up in Houston.
2011: Grandmother Lorene Turner starts following Jakadrien's best friend on Facebook. She eventually tracks her granddaughter to Houston, where she learns that Jakadrien works at a club under the name Tika Cortez, the real name of a Colombian woman wanted by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL).
The family identifies Jakadrien in a Facebook profile picture for a girl named "Tika." The picture of Jakadrien includes a fraction of her grandmother's hair from her cut out face. The family tries to get help from authorities in Houston, to no avail.
April 2011: Jakadrien is arrested for misdemeanor theft, claims her name is Tika Lanay Cortez, a Colombian woman born in 1990. Her name is run through an immigration database and an immigration detainer is put on her.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement takes Jakadrien's fingerprints but fails to match them to Tika Cortez, the false name she's given. Still, they initiate a deportation hearing.
2011: According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jakadrien claimed to be Cortez throughout her entire criminal deportation proceedings in Houston and through her deportation process. Why? Even after an immigration judge ultimately ordered her back to Colombia, Jakadrien did not reveal her real name, according to ICE.
2011: Jakadrien is interviewed by a representative from the Colombian consulate to establish that she is from Colombia and the consulate then issues her a travel document to enter Colombia. How was he not able to figure out she was from Texas?
Oct. 2011: Jakadrien's Facebook page, which is under the name "Tika Confero" lists her as being employed at Teleperformance, an international call center with offices in Colombia, among other countries. According to the Colombian governement, Jakadrien was enrolled in the country's "Welcome Home" program after she arrived there. She was given shelter, psychological assistance and a job at a call center. Why didn't she use her call center access to phone home?
Oct. 2011: Her Facebook profile lists her as being from Bridgetown, Barbados, living in Bogotá, Colombia and being fluent in "Colombian Spanish," Creole, Cajun, French, and Bajan and as having graduated from Texas Southern University. Her family insists she has no ties to Colombia, was born and raised in the U.S. and speaks no Spanish.
Nov. 2011: Jakadrien's grandmother notices a Facebook status update on Tika's page that lists her granddaughter as being in Colombia. The family learns she was arrested in Houston for shoplifting, but they say they have no idea how she wound up in Colombia after the arrest.
Oct. 2011: Jakadrien aka "Tika" posts photos of herself looking happy in Colombia in a Facebook album titled: "Familia...me happy 4 once, in the Mountains."
Oct. 2011: "Tika" posts a status update about being back in a relationship with Alejandro Yoel Almeida Cisneros, a man who looks older than her, from Havana, Cuba.
Dec. 2011: A detective tells the family Jakadrien is pregnant and the teen is placed in a protection program by the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare after officials learned of her situation.
Jan. 2011: A pregnant Jakadrien, now 15, is returned to her family who is "ecstatic" to have her back. Jakadrien issues no statement, but the family's lawyer says she's "happy to be home."