Calgary police are asking the public for help to locate a woman who has been missing since August last year.

Sara Georgina Coates, 32, was last seen in the Stanley Park area around Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012.

She is described as:

  • Caucasian
  • 157 cm or 5’2” tall
  • 50 Kg or 110 lbs.
  • Long, red hair
  • Blue eyes

Police say she was also known by the nicknames “Meka” or “Meko” and has a small, homemade tattoo of a heart on her left knuckle.

Investigators say Coates travelled in and around Calgary before she went missing and is known to camp in her blue Chevrolet Astro minivan in the Foothills Industrial area.

The van has a cream-coloured passenger door and the window is missing from the rear passenger door.

She was travelling with three cats and one dog. 

Anyone who may have seen or spoken with Coates before she went missing, or who may have information about her current whereabouts, is asked to call police at 403-266-1234 or Crime Stoppers anonymously using any of the following methods:

TALK: 1-800-222-8477
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