Arseil Read (Image: Kershaw County Sheriff's Dept.)
Columbia, SC (WLTX) - Kershaw County deputies say a woman who'd been reported as missing to them has been found safe.
Officers say 46-year-old Arseli Read was found in the Philippines.
Deputies say Read flew into South Carolina last month and checked into the Ramada Limited on Highway 601 in Lugoff on January 20th. Investigators believe she was there to meet a male friend named Vick.
Read was supposed to have arrived in Australia on February 20th, but she never made it home.
It's not clear how or why she was in the Philippines.