The Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement that it found the cellphone and other items belonging to Chicago resident Taylor Casey, 41, who was last seen at a Paradise Island yoga retreat June 19.

Authorities in the Bahamas on Tuesday indicated that the search for a missing American yoga enthusiast is a top priority amid calls by friends and family for U.S. intervention.The Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement that it found the cellphone and other belongings of Chicago resident Taylor Casey,

The cellphone of Taylor Casey has been located in the Bahamas, authorities said Tuesday as the mother of the missing 41-year-old Chicago woman calls on the United States to take over the investigation.

Close friends and family of Taylor Casey, a Chicago woman who disappeared while attending a yoga retreat in the Bahamas, slammed program leaders and investigators in a newly released statement, calling their actions "disturbing and infuriating" as Casey remains missing for a second week.

The mother of a Chicago woman who has been missing in the Bahamas for nearly two weeks is pleading with the US government to intervene in the case and help find her daughter. Forty-one-year-old Taylor Casey was last seen on June 19 around Paradise Island,

A woman from Chicago has been missing in the Bahamas for almost two weeks after vanishing from a yoga retreat, and now her family and Chicago police are appealing to the public for help in finding 41-year-old Taylor Casey.

The mother of Taylor Casey, who went missing while at a yoga retreat in the Bahamas last week, said there are many unanswered questions after she failed to show up for a morning class.