Desert Sun staff reports

A missing couple whose friends organized volunteer search parties to scour Joshua Tree National Park has been found in Mexico, authorities said.

Los Angeles Police Department issued an update Friday saying Mariya Mitkova and Aaron Morganstein were located in Mexico “in good health and will be reunited with their family.”

No other details were immediately available.

Local law enforcement agencies and park authorities said Thursday they had found no trace of the couple and were not actively searching.

Morganstein and Mitkova were last seen leaving their Los Angeles home Nov. 12, according to a Los Angeles Police Department news release. The couple are frequent campers and were believed to have been headed to Joshua Tree National Park or the Imperial Sand Dunes, police said.

PREVIOUSLY: No sign of couple in Joshua Tree National Park

Joshua Tree park rangers did an initial sweep of the park Tuesday and a more rigorous search Wednesday, checking every road the couple’s Subaru could have driven down. Rangers also checked all nine of the park’s campgrounds. Rangers also posted signs with photographs of the couple around the park.

Mitkova, 27, and Morganstein, 33, traveled in a 2002 dark blue Subaru Outback with California license plates.