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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Mar. ~ 2005 May: Amber Alert!!! US (ARCHIVES): Archive through April 30, 2005 users admin

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Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 5:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The SILER CITY, N.C. police department and the state of North Carolina issued the Amber Alert after the girl was abducted in Vallejo California on Monday, March 14th.

Delia Marquez, 14 years old. She is described as Hispanic, approximately 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 135 pounds, and having brown hair and brown eyes.

Marquez is reportedly in the company of Luis Durate, also known as Gonzalez Tellado Pedro Warren, a 21-year-old from Siler City. He is described as being Hispanic, 5 feet 8 inches tall, 150 pounds, with a tattoo on his upper right arm.

Marquez and Durate were last known to be traveling in Vallejo, Calif., and are believed to be en route to Siler City North Carolina. The car in which they were last seen is a 1997 two-door red Pontiac Firebird, with North Carolina license plate number SSA2270.

A second suspect, 49-year-old Gabriel Vasquez Altamirano, is believed to be accompanying them. Altamirano is described as a short, heavy-set Hispanic man with gray hair.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Siler City Police Department at 919-742-5626 or dial 911.


Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 5:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I wonder why they waited five days to put out this alert...

Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Man in Missing-Girl Case to Be Extradited

HOMOSASSA, Fla. - A registered sex offender found in Georgia during a hunt for a missing girl who lives near him in central Florida waived extradition Friday and agreed to return to his home state.

The agreement came a day after investigators arrested John Evander Couey, 46, and questioned him about the Feb. 23 disappearance of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. Officials called Couey a "person of interest" in the case, not a suspect.

Couey was arrested Thursday in Augusta, Ga., because he hadn't notified Florida officials he was leaving the state, a requirement for sex offenders, said Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy.

Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength declined to say when Couey would return to Citrus County. Couey told officials he had been passing through Georgia on his way to Tennessee, Strength said.

Couey was being interviewed by two Citrus County sheriff's detectives and an FBI special agent. He had an initial court appearance scheduled for Friday in Augusta.

Dawsy said Couey was being cooperative and answering investigators' questions. "We're building a rapport with the gentleman," Dawsy said.

Couey sometimes lived across the street from Jessica's home about 60 miles north of Tampa. He left Florida on or about March 4 after telling relatives that police would be looking for him.

Couey's extensive criminal history includes an incident in which he broke into a home and kissed a sleeping girl while exposing himself.

Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, said he had never seen Couey.

"Let's not get our hopes up," he said of Couey's arrest. "We had our hopes up in the beginning and we got let down" earlier in the investigation.

Couey's home in Homosassa is about two miles from Jessica's, but he sometimes stayed with his half sister, about 150 yards from the girl's house, Dawsy said.

Authorities searched his half sister's home and removed some items that were sent to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for further investigation, the sheriff said.

Couey's criminal record includes arrests for burglary, carrying a concealed weapon and indecent exposure. In 1991, he was arrested in Kissimmee on a charge of fondling a child under age 16. Records don't show how the case was resolved.

During a house burglary in 1978, he was accused of grabbing a girl in her bedroom, placing his hand over her mouth and kissing her, Dawsy said. Jessica was last seen in her bedroom, Dawsy has said. Couey was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was paroled in 1980, a time when inmates were serving a small fraction of their sentences.

George Kanaris, 46, owner of Emily's Family Restaurant about a mile from the Lunsford home, said Couey worked there as a dishwasher more than 10 years ago, from about 1992 to 1994.

Kanaris said he fired Couey because he wrote a romantic letter to a bus girl who was 14 or 15.






Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This makes me sick. I'm just horrified for this family.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 12:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mar. 18 (BCN) — The FBI reported this morning a missing Vallejo girl was found safe after her alleged abductor surrendered to police in Silver City, N.C.

FBI spokeswoman Karen Ernst said 14-year-old Delia Marquez was found early this morning and that 19-year-old Luis Durate, of North Carolina, is in custody on a warrant for his arrest for child concealment issued by Vallejo police.

Marquez's parents are traveling to North Carolina today to get their daughter, Ernst said.

Another North Carolina man, 49-year-old Altmirano Gabriale Vasquez, is a suspect in the case and still at large, Ernst said.

A federal complaint will be issued later today in Sacramento, Ernst said. She did not know the specifics of the complaint.

Authorities believe Marquez met and corresponded with Durate on the Internet for at least two weeks and that the two men traveled to Vallejo to take the girl to North Carolina.

Vallejo said Marquez was last seen by friends at 7:45 a.m. Monday getting into a red car at Vallejo High School, where she is a student.

Vallejo police also said it appears Marquez packed clothes and personal items and planned to leave Vallejo with Durate.

Suitsmefine
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07-29-2002

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh no, it was just reported on our NBC affiliate that the suspect in the 9 yr. old Fla. girls disappearance has admitted to killing her!God Bless that family.


Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sheriff: Suspect Admits Killing Fla. Girl

HOMOSASSA, Fla. - A registered sex offender admitted Friday that he kidnapped and killed a 9-year-old girl who disappeared from her bedroom more than three weeks ago and told police where they could find her body, authorities said.

John Evander Couey, 46, had been arrested Thursday and named a "person of interest" in Jessica Lunsford's disappearance. He confessed to authorities after taking a lie-detector test, Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy said.

"At the end of the polygraph, he said, 'You don't have to tell me the results. I know what they are,'" Dawsy said. "He apologized to the investigators for wasting their time."

Authorities cordoned off an area Friday near the home of Couey's half-sister, who lived about 150 yards from the home Jessica shared with her father and grandparents. Dawsy would not comment on what investigators were doing in the area, but said it "will take hours." Police had yet to recover a body.

A sheriff's spokeswoman who answered the phone at the Lunsford home Friday evening said the family declined to make any immediate comment. Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, has said the family did not know Couey.

Jessica's stepfather, Lonnie Bryant, told The Associated Press by telephone from Ohio that he and the girl's mother, Angela Bryant, planned to come to Florida soon.

"I'm going through agony right now," he said.

Jessica, a third grader, was last seen when she went to bed in her home Feb. 23. She was discovered missing the next morning, with the door unlocked and her stuffed animal gone. The clothes she had laid out for school were still in place, and none of her shoes were missing.

More than 100 police and volunteers, with help from bloodhounds and helicopters, searched the area about 60 miles north of Tampa for days following her disappearance. Jessica's family made emotional appeals on national television for her safe return.

Detectives grew interested in Couey while interviewing all registered sex offenders in the area. They tried to contact Couey at his home in Homosassa five days after Jessica disappeared and discovered he no longer lived there.

When investigators followed up with the half-sister, she denied that Couey had lived with her. But another relative confided to a detective that Couey sometimes stayed at the home.

Authorities said Couey left Florida on or about March 4 after telling relatives that police would be looking for him. He was arrested in Augusta, Ga., on a probation violation for failing to notify officials that he was moving, a requirement for sex offenders. He was awaiting extradition to Florida on Friday.

Couey has an extensive criminal record that includes 24 arrests for burglary, carrying a concealed weapon and indecent exposure. In 1991, he was arrested in Kissimmee on a charge of fondling a child under age 16. Records don't show how the case was resolved.

During a house burglary in 1978, Couey was accused of grabbing a girl in her bedroom, placing his hand over her mouth and kissing her, Dawsy said. Couey was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was paroled in 1980.



Suitsmefine
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07-29-2002

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As the Mom of 2 young children, my opinions of punishment have changed considerably...I believe these offenders should NEVER again see the light of day... but I think they should also suffer some unimaginable horror, just like their victims....take for instance Michael Jackson, whom in my gut I believe to be guilty....I think they should hire Lorena (?) Bobbit to perform her expertise on them..and in the instance of Michael Jackson, they could use the "gains" to make him a new nose.
I think there is no greater crime than the act of child abuse in any form and it should be punished accordingly.JMO...

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 10:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
since they opened up the records for the megan's law search, i have found 4 people in our zip code who play at our golf course!
if you want to check out the registered offenders in your area and do not want to have to pay for this service, do not go to the official megan's law.com, but google and type in: meagan's law search. the 4th or 5th one down is a free search. you just put in your zip code or a person's name and it will come up, mostly with pics, addresses and what the offense(s) are.

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 5:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Amber Alert Cancelled for 14 year old North Carolina Girl
Posted: Thursday March 17 09:00 PM CT
Updated: Friday, March 18, 10:15 CT

The SILER CITY, N.C. police department and the state of North Carolina cancelled the Amber Alert early Friday morning after the girl and a suspect walked in to a police station in Siler City. There is no information on a second suspect at this time.

Delia Marquez, 14 years old. She is described as Hispanic, approximately 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 135 pounds, and having brown hair and brown eyes.

Marquez is reportedly in the company of Luis Durate, also known as Gonzalez Tellado Pedro Warren, a 21-year-old from Siler City. He is described as being Hispanic, 5 feet 8 inches tall, 150 pounds, with a tattoo on his upper right arm.

Marquez and Durate were last known to be traveling in Vallejo, Calif., and are believed to be en route to Siler City North Carolina. The car in which they were last seen is a 1997 two-door red Pontiac Firebird, with North Carolina license plate number SSA2270.

A second suspect, 49-year-old Gabriel Vasquez Altamirano, is believed to be accompanying them. Altamirano is described as a short, heavy-set Hispanic man with gray hair.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Siler City Police Department at 919-742-5626 or dial 911.


Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 5:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
www.sexualpredators.com

Lostintheglades
Member

07-10-2000

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 9:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Please sign Jessica's petition. We've lost too many children to these scum bags. Jessica's father is trying to vent his anger to something positive. The laws need to change.

http://jessicaspetition.r8.org/

Lucy
Member

10-08-2002

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Amber Alert Issued for Two Georgia Children
Posted: Tuesday March 22 9:44 AM CT
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The Jonesboro Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation issued the Amber Alert on Tuesday morning after the children were abducted and their grand father shot.

Faith McDowell a four year old black female.

Jaquan Wright a five year old black male.

Police are looking for Terrance McDowell a twenty seven year old male.

The suspect vehicle is a 1998 green Kia Sephia with the Georgia Tag ARL 5783.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Clayton County Sheriff's Department at 770-471-1122 or dial 911



Lucy
Member

10-08-2002

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 8:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good news about the children from Georgia...

Amber Alert Canceled for Two Georgia Children
Posted: Tuesday March 22 9:44 AM CT
Updated: Tuesday March 22 3:14 PM CT

The Jonesboro Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation canceled the Amber Alert on Tuesday afternoon after the children were found safe in Greensboro North Carolina. The suspect remains at large as of this hour.


Sassynegal
Member

01-21-2005

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Another Florida girl (12) is missing they believe she is in danger and have descriptions of her possible kidnappers on CNN.com

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Monday, March 28, 2005 - 11:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I always feel bad when Amber Alert rises to the top. This is one thread I wish would sink off the bottom of the page for lack of kidnappings.

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Friday, April 15, 2005 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Amber Alert Canceled for 2 Washington children
Posted: Friday April 15 2:11 PM CT
Updated: Friday April 15 3:00 PM CT

Children and suspects have not been found. But AMBER Alert is no longer appropriate. The state of Washington had activated the amber alert after an abduction from Mcchord Afb, located in Washington.

David Knisley, 3 years old. He is Caucasian with blond hair and brown eyes. He is 30 pounds. He was last wearing blue T-Shirt with "Cookie Monster" on the front No pants, only wearing a diaper.

Vanessa Knisley, She is 8 years old. She is a Caucasian. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She weighs 65 pounds. She was last seen wearing Light in color Long sleeved shirt with unknown writing on shirt, with blue jeans.

There are two suspects in this abduction. The first is Madesta Knisley, 27 years old Caucasian female. She has dirty blond hair with brown eyes. She's 4 feet 10 inches tall, 135 pounds, with unknown clothing. The second suspect is Michelle Schoefer, 29 years old female with brown hair and brown eyes. She's also Caucasian. She's 5 feet 8 inches tall weighing 160 pounds. She was last seen wearing a Wearing Red Sweater with Blue Jeans.

The vehicle in this abduction is a white 1993 Plymouth Voyager Minivan that has an unknown Wahington license tag. The Vehicle license plate has handicapped emblem on it. And a handicapped placard on the rearview mirror issued out of California.

Anyone with information is asked to call 253-982-5624 or dial 911.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, April 15, 2005 - 5:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
? If the kids have not been found, why is the amber alert cancelled??

Sassynegal
Member

01-21-2005

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 9:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Amber Alert issued for 12 yr old Florida girl


The girl, Margarita Aguilar-Lopez, was staying in a Bradenton motel with her two older brothers. The two brothers, both in their 20s, said they last saw her about 7:30 p.m. Monday, when they left Margarita and two younger girls in the care of Antonio Paulino-Perez -- whom they had just met -- while they went to buy liquor, said Bradenton police Maj. J.J. Lewis.

When the brothers returned about 30 minutes later, Margarita was missing and the two younger girls were alone, police said. Lewis said they were unharmed.

About two hours later, police arrived at the motel to investigate a complaint against one of the brothers, according to the Amber Alert text. The complaint was related to the brothers' drinking, Lewis said.

The brothers initially didn't mention to police that their sister was missing. One of them later told police he and his brother were "too intoxicated and could not remember," police said.

All involved in the case are undocumented immigrants, Lewis said. "They live in a transient lifestyle. ... They work at local farms, cutting vegetables." Their parents are in Mexico, he said.

Paulino-Perez, 25, was last known to be living at a migrant farm in Ruskin, Florida, and was last seen driving a mid-1990s red Ford Aerostar minivan, possibly with a Florida tag, police said.

Police said Margarita is 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 65 pounds. She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue pants.

Authorities are working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the FBI and Mexican police to obtain information on Paulino-Perez.

It's the third missing child report in two weeks in Manatee County, Florida.

Bradenton police asked people with information in the case to call 1-941-932-9300.


Max
Member

08-12-2000

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good grief. What is it with missing kids in Florida these days?! :-(

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 6:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Amber Alert issued for 12 Year Old Florida Girl
Posted: Tuesday April 26 1:54 PM CT


The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Bradenton Police Department issued the Amber Alert on Tuesday afternoon after the girl was apparently abducted Monday evening.

Margarita aguilarR-lopez, 12 years old. She's white/hispanic with black hair and brown eyes. She is 4 feet 10 inches tall. Margarita was last seen wearing a white tee shirt and blue pants. The child was last seen in the 1700 block of 14TH street west AND IS BELIEVED TO BE IN DANGER.

The suspect is Antonio Paulino-Perez who has black hair and brown eyes. He's 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. He's White/Hispanic. The abductor was last seen wearing a white tee shirt blue jeans, and a possible scar on his forehead.

They may be traveling in a mid 1990’s red ford aerostar, possible Florida tag.

If you have any information on this child please call the Bradenton Police Department at 941-932-9300 or dial 911.

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 7:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Missing Fla. Girl, 12, Found Alive and Well

BRADENTON, Fla. — A 12-year-old girl who police said was abducted by a 25-year-old co-worker of her brother was found alive late Wednesday about 10 miles south of Greenville, S.C.

Child Protective Services in South Carolina took temporary custody of the girl, Margarita Aguilar-Lopez.

Antonio Paulino-Perez was arrested in connection with her disappearance at a nearby Wal-Mart.

Police had issued an Amber Alert Tuesday for Margarita — who had last been seen Monday night at a Bradenton motel, where she was staying with two brothers who had left her in the care of Paulino-Perez.

When the two brothers returned to their room at the Classic Inn at about 8 p.m. Monday, the child and Paulino-Perez were missing, police said. Police had said Paulino-Perez was suspected of taking the girl.

The brothers did not report the girl missing until Tuesday morning, even though a Bradenton police officer had spoken to them at the motel at about 10 p.m. Monday while investigating a battery complaint against one of them, Rubino Aguilar.

When asked about the delay, one brother told police that he and his brother were "too intoxicated and could not remember." Police did not immediately release the brothers' ages or occupation.

Margarita's parents are in Mexico. She is an illegal immigrant living with her two brothers and her sister-in-law at the motel. Margarita babysits her brother's children while the family's adults work at migrant labor in Ruskin, said Major William Tokajer, Bradenton police spokesman.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154860,00.html


Suitsmefine
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 8:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank the Lord!

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 11:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Amber Alert Issued for 4 Year Old North Carolina Girl
Posted: Saturday April 30 9:44 AM CT

The Robeson County Sheriff's Office and the North Carolina Department of Crime Control issued the Amber Alert after the girl was apparently abducted early Saturday morning.

Kaylan Brook Jacobs, 4 yrs., Native American, 3', 40 lbs. with brown eyes and brown shoulder-length hair.

Police are looking for Katherine Jacobs (or Hunt), who has a history of mental problems.

They are believed to be traveling in a green, 1992 Pontiac Boneville with license plate number, NYP7016.

The car was allegedly taken from the home of Aggie Hunt, the grandmother and custodian of Kaylan about 12:43 p.m. on Friday.

Anyone with information should contact the Robeson County Sheriff’s Department at 1-800-672-6161.

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 8:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Amber Alert Canceled for 4 Year Old North Carolina Girl
Posted: Saturday April 30 9:44 AM CT
Updated: Saturday April 30 8:24 PM CT

The Robeson County Sheriff's Office and the North Carolina Department of Crime Control canceled the Amber Alert after the girl was recovered on Saturday afternoon. No further information is available at this time.

Kaylan Brook Jacobs, 4 yrs., Native American, 3', 40 lbs. with brown eyes and brown shoulder-length hair.

Police are looking for Katherine Jacobs (or Hunt), who has a history of mental problems.

They are believed to be traveling in a green, 1992 Pontiac Boneville with license plate number, NYP7016.

The car was allegedly taken from the home of Aggie Hunt, the grandmother and custodian of Kaylan about 12:43 p.m. on Friday.

Anyone with information should contact the Robeson County Sheriff’s