Who Is Toni Anderson? Missing UMKC College Student Disappears After Getting Pulled Over By Police

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A University of Missouri-Kansas City student has been missing since Sunday following an early morning text to a friend about being pulled over by the police, the Kansas City Star reported. Toni Anderson disappeared shortly after sending a text to her best friend Roxanne Townsend: “Omg just got pulled over again.”

Anderson, 20, was talking about being pulled over by a North Kansas City police officer for making an unsafe lane change. She was leaving her job as a server at a Kansas City strip club and driving to meet up with a friend.

Anderson was given a warning and the police officer watched her drive to a nearby convenience store because she had told him her car was almost out of gas. She was reported missing after not showing up to her arranged plans.

“It’s not like her. She’s social. You pretty much always know where she’s at,” Toni’s mother Liz Anderson told local news outlet KSHB Kansas City. “It’s just been a horrible nightmare. And I know any parent going through this is just horrified.”

Anderson's best friend said this was not the first time she was pulled over by the police.

“Toni gets pulled over a lot because she drives late at night a lot, and she doesn’t have cruise control in her car,” Townsend told The Wichita Eagle. “I just figured this was another one of those times.”

Anderson lived with her boyfriend, Pete Sanchez, who Townsend said told her his girlfriend was not home in the morning when he got up to go to work.

“He didn’t really think anything of it. Sometimes she’ll just go hang out with her co-workers or her friends after work, even though it’s really late at night,” Townsend said. “Or she’ll sleep at a friend’s house. So it wasn’t that strange.”

A GoFundMe crowd funding campaign was created to help raise money to hire a private investigator. It was initially set for $3,000 but surpassed its goal. The amount was then set to $8,000 to put “towards a reward and to help the Anderson family with any additional expenses,” the page read.