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Police are asking the public to assist them in finding a missing local woman.
Twenty-eight-year-old Chrissita Cage has been missing since Oct. 26 and suffers from bipolar disorder.
Officials said they found her vehicle on Belle Isle with all of her personal items in it.
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28-year-old Shanita Brown hasn't been seen in three days, and her family fears something awful has happened to her.
"I talk to my sister everyday. Anybody that knows us (knows) I talk to my sister every day," said Salina Brown.
That's why Salina is worried sick about her 28-year-old sister, Shanita, who she hasn't seen or spoken with since Monday.
"This is not like her. She has not shown up for work. She didn't pick her work check up. She has not been to her house. I just want my sister to come home," Salina Brown said.
On Monday night, Shanita went to Detroit's Celebrity Club on Plymouth Road. Exclusive video obtained by FOX 2 shows Shanita entering the bar with two men and a girlfriend. Shanita is seen in the video wearing a dark jacket.
"I don't know who these two guys are. I just know she's (known) one for about two weeks and that's it," said Salina Brown. "No one has seen her."
The owner of Celebrity tells us Shanita spent a few hours at the club. When you look closely at the video, you can see one of the men becoming very affectionate with Shanita and rubbing her back. The other man sitting to the right of the couple. Cameras eventually capture a clearer image of the two men she was there with until early Tuesday morning.
After they left the bar, Shanita and those two men dropped the other girl they were with off in the 13300 block of Mark Twain. Shanita hasn't been seen or heard from since.
"I hope nobody has hurt her. She (has) so many people that love her. I just want my sister to come home. I want her to be okay," Salina Brown said.
Detroit Police are getting ready to examine the surveillance video, hoping to identify the two men Shanita was with and speak to them about what happened that night.
As each day passes without Shanita, her family can't help but fear the worst.
"In my heart, I feel like something (is) wrong with my sister because she never did this before," said Salinia Brown.
But they're praying for the best.
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Divers were at Aquatic Park this morning probing the waters for the missing 8-month-old son of a 23-year-old Oakland woman found slain at the park Friday morning, authorities said.
The missing child was reported to Oakland police early today by relatives of Zoelina Williams, who was found beaten and shot to death about 4 a.m. Friday at the park.
Police in both Berkeley and Oakland apparently did not know Williams had a child until the relatives notified police. Oakland police said she and the infant had been living with relatives in West Oakland. The baby's name is Jashon Williams.
A suspect, Curtis Martin, 38, of Oakland, has been arrested as a suspect in Williams' slaying. But authorities said he so far is not talking about Williams' death or the missing child.
Authorities said he may have been driving both of them from Oakland to Vallejo early Friday before something happened to cause him to kill Williams and leave her at Aquatic Park.
It is still not clear what the relationship was between Martin and Williams and why she was killed.
The divers are part of the Alameda County Search and Rescue Team.
Anyone with information about the missing child should contact the Oakland Police Department at 510-238-3641.
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A second man has been charged in the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl, police said Friday, but the whereabouts of the girl are still unknown.
Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, was arrested early Friday and and charged with first-degree kidnapping. He was being held in the Cumberland County Detention Center under a $100,000 bond and was expected to make his initial court appearance at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
Police also dropped the kidnapping charge against another man in the case and released him from jail.
Shaniya Nicole Davis was reported missing from her home, at 1116-A Sleepy Hollow Drive in Fayetteville, on Tuesday morning. Her mother told police she put the girl on a couch at 5:30 a.m., but she was gone when her mother went to check on her about an hour later.
A worker at a Sanford hotel called Fayetteville police on Tuesday to report seeing a child matching Shaniya's description with a man at the hotel. A security video showed the girl with a man believed to be McNeill at the hotel at 6:11 a.m. Tuesday.
By the time Fayetteville investigators reached the hotel, however, the man and the child had checked out, police said.
Shaniya appeared to be "well taken care of," Theresa Chance, spokeswoman for the Fayetteville Police Department, said Thursday night.
"We're hoping we find her alive," Chance said.
She said a tip led to McNeill's arrest, but she declined to disclose where he was found. Investigators are continuing to follow leads in the case, she said.
"We're receiving new leads all the time," she said.
McNeill has a criminal history, including arrests for fleeing to elude arrest, assault on a female and drug possession.
His relationship to Shaniya and her family is unknown, but Chance said that he admitted to investigators that he had abducted the girl.
On Wednesday, police arrested Clarence Darriel Coe, 30, of 211 Brookwood Ave. in Fayetteville, and charged him with first-degree kidnapping in the case.
A witness saw a man driving away from the Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home Park on Tuesday with Shaniya in his car, police said.
The man was initially believed to be Coe, but Chance said investigators have now determined he wasn't involved in Shaniya's disappearance. McNeill told investigators that he abducted the girl, Chance said, so the charge against Coe was dropped Friday morning.
Shaniya is described as 3 feet tall and 40 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with pink underwear. She is thin and has a scar on her foot.
Anyone with information on Shaniya's whereabouts is asked to call the Fayetteville Police Department at 910-433-1856 or Crime Stoppers at 910-483-8477.
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Sheriff Lee Baca reported to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Monday that although the Mitrice Richardson missing person’s case is in his words “unusual and unfortunate...the [sheriff’s] department’s release policy and procedures are consistent with state law, and our investigation revealed all applicable laws, policies and procedures were followed.”
Richardson mysteriously disappeared after release from the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station on Sept. 17 and has not been heard from for close to nine weeks, despite extensive field searches and a concerted effort by her family to keep the missing 24-year-old’s story in the public eye.
Baca’s four-page report was requested by the board last month when the supervisors announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to Richardson’s whereabouts. He concludes that “the department did not identify any areas requiring modification.”
The head of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the LASD processes approximately 180,000 prisoners each year for release and “over-detention [carries] tremendous liability, as well as risk to the public’s safety and a deprivation of civil rights.”
His report includes a cursory outline of the department’s assessment of the circumstances under which the Cal State Fullerton honors graduate was placed under citizen’s arrest by the manager of Geoffrey’s restaurant for allegedly being unable to pay an $89.51 dinner tab and possessing less than an ounce of marijuana in her vehicle, then transported by deputies to Lost Hills for booking on two misdemeanor counts related to the allegations.
As Baca describes it, after Richardson’s 92-year-old great grandmother, the matriarch on her mother’s side, was unable to drive to the restaurant to pay the bill, her mother Latice Sutton spoke to the manager and she “opted not to assist her daughter with the payment.”
Although Geoffrey’s staffers had described the young woman’s behavior as “crazy,” she reportedly passed a field sobriety test and Baca said “her interaction with the deputies was coherent and rational” and “deputies described her as cooperative and polite.”
He said Richardson signed an Arrestee Medical Screening Form stating she has no medical issues or psychological problems.
Richardson, who was garbed in a T-shirt and jeans, and whose only possessions reportedly were a hat, a belt and her California driver license, left the station through a side entrance at 12:25 a.m. with no money, cell phone, or means of transportation; and ostensibly without making her plans known to anyone. Telephone calls to the great-grandmother are listed on the booking report, but no further information about them has been made available.
Regarding the timing of Richardson’s release, Baca said, “It is the policy of the department to release misdemeanor prisoners as soon as such persons may be reasonably and safely released.”
Baca said this policy “is no different than any other time of day,” adding that the procedures emphasize “prompt and safe release once there is no justification to deprive the arrestee of their freedom.” He said “it is not practical or legal for the department to hold people until someone is available to pick them up” and “altering this procedure would subject the department to potential litigation.”
The sheriff reiterated that Richardson was offered the option of being placed in a cell and being “free to leave at any time.” Baca stressed that there was “no legal basis to hold Ms. Richardson and she was released on her written promise to appear in Malibu Court on Nov. 16. Following her release from the station’s jail area, her movements were no longer monitored.”
PARENTS’ REACTION
Richardson’s mother Latice Sutton said she is “very upset by the report” and told the Malibu Surfside News: “It is unfortunate that the LASD deemed releasing anyone from their facility knowing that they had no transportation, form of communication or money as ‘prudent, reasonable and safe,’ particularly someone who they knew was behaving in a manner that warranted an evaluation by a qualified professional. Further the amount of time and manpower that it took to generate their erroneous report takes away valuable time in the search for my daughter.”
Richardson’s father, who maintains his own website concerning his missing daughter, as does the mother, (the couple separated when their daughter was very young), posted a similar comment to the mother’s statement on that site, adding:
“This is ridiculous and my daughter is still missing and really it’s the sheriff's who were the last verified people to see her. If I follow the sheriff’s department’s own logic, it’s clear they acted inappropriately. The initial call regarding my daughter from Geoffrey’s to the sheriff’s was that she was “acting crazy.” Crazy. Crazy as in mental problems, as in you don’t release her on her own in the middle of the night without money, her cell phone, or transportation. You call her parents and or hold her overnight.”
Michael Richardson added, “Now I'm no rocket scientist, but if a woman says she’s from Mars and is here to avenge Michael Jackson's death...chances are she’s in need of some help. My question is, who did they call or who was on duty that night that had the training and background to make the assessment on whether Mitrice Richardson was stable or not?
“If the sheriff’s handling my daughter would have used a little common sense or even put themselves in our shoes as parents and thought twice before just letting Mitrice out into the middle of the night, my daughter would not be missing. But because they didn’t, she is and they refuse to accept responsibility or even act as though they played a role in her disappearance or that they even care.”
The father concludes, “We are tired [of] being lied to and misled by the sheriff's department. I believe that someone at the Malibu-Lost Hills sheriff’s department had something to do with my daughter’s disappearance and this report only confirms it for me.”
Richardson’s last statement is being echoed on dozens of blog posts related to the missing woman on websites across Southern California, as well as blogs in other parts of the country.
OIR REVIEW
Lost Hills personnel’s position that the matter has already been reviewed notwithstanding, the Los Angeles Office of Independent Review indicates that it is still looking at the Richardson matter.
Deputy Chief Attorney Benjamin Jones told The News on Monday, “The Office of Independent Review has not completed its monitoring of the department’s review of the Malibu Station personnel’s conduct in their interactions with Ms. Richardson.” This stance was subsequently reiterated by OIR Chief Attorney Michael Gennaco.
The OIR is a civilian oversight group that was created by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 2001 to “monitor the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and provide legal advice to ensure that allegations of officer misconduct involving the LASD are investigated in thorough, fair, and effective ways.”
OIR consists of six attorneys with backgrounds in criminal law and civil rights issues who “work with LASD, but not for LASD.” OIR contends that it “has the freedom to arrive at its own conclusions and, if necessary, to challenge the department with regard to specific practices or incidents.”
LAPD STATUS
Repeated efforts to obtain updates from the Los Angeles Police Department detectives assigned to the Richardson case have been unsuccessful.
The LAPD is the lead agency because the missing woman resided in Los Angeles with her great-grandmother. There have no formal briefings on whether there have been any recent sightings or exactly what is now being done by the LAPD to try to locate Richardson. Family members have expressed interest in trying to take up the case with new LAPD Chief Charlie Beck.
FEDS PETITION
An online activist group whose concerns include criminal justice—change.org—has collected 2022 signatures toward its goal of 5000 signatures on a petition urging state and federal elected and appointed officials to initiate a federal investigation of the Mitrice Richardson case.
In addition to an effort to “help find Richardson,” the group wants “to ensure that this does not happen to additional persons.” The petition is at the group’s website: www.change.org
PRAYER SERVICE
Family and friends gathered last Saturday for a prayer service to “pray for the safe return of Mitrice Richardson” at the New Testament Church in Los Angeles, a church where the missing woman has worshiped in the past.
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New Website for Mitrice Richardson:
http://www.bringmitricehome.org/
Volunteers trying to find a 5-year-old Fremont boy who's been missing for more than three months are hoping a $75,000 reward will bring some fresh leads to the case.
They've held a number of vigils for Hasanni Campbell since he was reported missing Aug. 10, but they say the latest one Tuesday had a poor turnout.
Authorities and volunteers have now raised the reward, up from the $60,000 announced in September.
Hasanni, who has cerebral palsy, reportedly went missing when his foster father, Louis Ross, briefly left him alone in a parked car in the city's Rockridge neighborhood.
Police initially arrested Ross and his fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, on suspicion of murder, but prosecutors declined to file charges due to lack of evidence. Authorities say searches have turned up no significant leads in the case.
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Low turnout at vigil for missing Fremont boy
Turnout was poor at a Tuesday night's vigil marking three months since 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell was reported missing, an organizer said Wednesday.
"We had a handful of people, but that was it," said Sherri Miller, who has organized searches, vigils and at least one fundraiser for the missing Fremont boy.
But after a fundraiser in Livermore last week, the reward for information leading to a conviction in Hasanni's abduction now stands at $75,000.
Tuesday's gathering at College Avenue Presbyterian Church drew television news cameras, but few attendees, Miller said.
Hasanni's foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, of Fremont, reported the boy missing Aug. 10 near a shoe store in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood. The two were later arrested on suspicion of murder, but released after prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to charge them. The foster parents did not attend Tuesday's vigil.
Several police and volunteer searches since then have turned up no significant leads as to Hasanni's whereabouts, police said.
"The more frustrating it gets, the harder we have to work," Miller said. "He's out there somewhere and that's the bottom line. He's out there and he deserves to be found. Hopefully with the city's new police chief and new district attorney, maybe they'll get some answers. Maybe we'll figure it out. I don't know what it's going to take, but we haven't found him yet, so we just have to keep going until we do."
Campbell was about six months pregnant at the time of Hasanni's reported disappearance, and declined police requests that she take a polygraph test because, she said, she was worried that the test might affect her pregnancy.
Police have not discussed new leads in the case.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Oakland Police Department at 510-777-3211 or 510-238-7934 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.
Supporters continue to hold monthly vigils for the boy. The next one will be on Dec. 10. For more information, visit www.hasannicampbell.com or e-mail findhasanni@gmail.com.
If you know anybody that live in California or Oakland area, please help support this little boy. Foster children are often forgotten about (especially when they go missing because some would assume that they are just running away from their problems) and Hasanni needs us now more than ever.
Refresh Your Memory on Hasanni Campbell's Disapperance
“The longer he’s out there and not found, it doesn’t look good,” Louis Ross says, choking up, in an interview about his missing foster son, 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell.
Campbell disappeared Aug. 10 in Oakland, Calif. when Ross left him in standing near the family car in the parking lot behind the shoe store where his fiancée, Campbell’s biological aunt and foster mom, Jennifer Campbell works. Upon seeing that their son had disappeared Ross and Campbell called 911 and began frantically searching.
“Hasanni does not wander away,” Ross told CBS 5 San Francisco.
How can Ross be so sure?
Hasanni was born with Cerebral Palsy, a type of permanent disorder that inhibits development of movement and posture, i.e., he had trouble walking, and according to Ross, could do so with concentration.
Contrary to early reports that described him wearing metal braces on his legs, Ross told reporters he wears plastic braces on his feet, which would not be visible over his clothes. He also said that if his son’s braces were removed he would still be able to walk, but would be looking down at the ground in focus.
Hasanni was left alone for “about five minutes, probably less,” Ross said in the same interview.
When asked what he think did happen in those five minutes, Ross tears up: “as a father, those are thoughts you don’t want to entertain.”
Jeff Thomason says Ross is mostly likely correct in his assumption that Hassani did not walk away: “anything’s possible but it’s not likely…right now no witnesses saw Hassani walking away from that area.”
The FBI has joined the search, along with several other local agencies. On the day of his disappearance a massive search was launched, including the use of a California Highway Patrol airplane and the K-9 unit. In the past eight days they have gone door-to-door in parts of Oakland and searched numerous locations, including a regional park and his foster parents’ home in Freemont.
Hassani Campbell, five, disappeared on Aug. 10 when his foster father left him in a parking lot for a mere five minutes.
The police have only received around 50 tips, which Thomason told reporters is an unusually low number for a week-old missing child case.
“We definitely need the public’s help,” Thomason said to CBS 5.
A $10,000 reward was offered Monday by Oakland Police and Crime Stoppers for information leading to the whereabouts of the boy.
“This is a continuous investigation that will be conducted day and night,” Officer Seth Neri said in a press conference.
The Oakland PD has been in touch with the biological mother, who lives in San Francisco, and told Crimesider that she is not a person of interest at this point.
Hasanni was removed from his 25-year-old mother’s home because she had physically abused him. Shemika Campbell, who also has Cerebral Palsy, says she thinks someone kidnapped him. In an exclusive interview with CBS 5 she says, “I always had a feeling that he would be gone from me one day.”
Sometimes late at night, when Larry Rogers was trying to sleep, he'd hear his name mentioned outside his home.
His sister, Priscilla Ann Rogers, was out on Red Cross Street in Wilmington, shouting at somebody about how they'd better shape up, or her big brother would be outside any minute.
Rogers, 50, would ignore her and go back to sleep. That, he says, is just how his little sister, known in the neighborhood as “Chuck E. Cheese,” often acts.
Priscilla, 41, loved to be seen and heard in downtown Wilmington where she's lived all her life and knew almost everyone, her family says.
But the mix of her outgoing personality and risky lifestyle - Priscilla was addicted to drugs and would work as a prostitute - makes it even more alarming that she hasn't been seen in Wilmington for more than four months. She's been officially missing since late August, and a police are again asking for help finding Priscilla.
“I think something happened to my sister,” Rogers said. “She would have called me.”
Disappeared
Priscilla was reported missing to the Wilmington Police Department on Aug. 28. But her family and police say they suspect she disappeared in mid-June. Rogers said Priscilla was last seen getting into a truck with someone she knew.
Several days later, he says, he and authorities entered Priscilla's home near Ninth and Queen streets and found food in the sink, lights on and her dog crying.
Family members said they didn't immediately fill out a missing persons report because Priscilla would sometimes leave town for short periods.
But Rogers says she would always called soon after she left.
“We know this time it's too long. Something ain't right,” he said.
Wilmington police Detective Paul Verzaal knew Priscilla and agreed she wasn't one to be in town and go unnoticed.
Since August, Verzaal says, he's looked for Priscilla and hung missing person signs in downtown convenience stores, but had no luck.
Rumors she was found dead near Leland or Greenfield Lake have turned up nothing, he said. He also checked with the N.C. State Medical Examiner's Office, but still hasn't found any sign of Priscilla.
Verzaal said he's spoken with people who knew her, and is still following leads. But he also said he is looking for help from anyone who might know where she is. Verzaal has considered the family's fear that something bad has happened to her.
“We're still treating it as a missing person case until we're proven otherwise,” Verzaal said.
Priscilla's description has been entered in a national database, which will tell any law enforcement she encounters that she is missing from Wilmington, Verzaal said.
Rogers is a black woman, who is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes.
In an interview, Verzaal asked hunters who are heading into the woods in the coming months to report anything that could be human remains.
Wondering
Larry Rogers and Beverly Rivers, Priscilla's sister, say wherever they go in Wilmington, people ask about Priscilla, and they don't know what to tell them.
They acknowledge she led a risky lifestyle, and Rivers says she prayed for years Priscilla would quit drugs and lead a more normal life.
But her brother and sister say she's a happy person, with family who cared for her, and who treated everyone with respect.
“She deserves more than to not be found,” Rivers said. “It's just not the same with her not around.”
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Police in Camden County are searching for a teenage boy with autism who went missing Thursday evening.
Dalon Harkless, 13 was last seen laving his home on Madison Avenue in Lindenwold at about 5:10 p.m.
Authorities said Harkless, who answers to "Day", is mentally around the age of 6. He is described as a black male, approximately 6 feet tall with a medium to thin build.
Harkless was last wearing black-hooded sweatshirt, nylon warm-up pants and was carrying a backpack filled with magazines.
If you have any information, please contact Lindenwold Police at 856-784-4800.
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A missing 5-year-old North Carolina girl was seen with a man at a hotel, but not the same person charged in her kidnapping, police said late Thursday.
Shaniya Davis was spotted in Sanford with a man identified as Mario Andrette McNeill, said Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Teresa Chance. She was seen with him Tuesday, about an hour after she disappeared from her home in Fayetteville, about 40 miles away.
Late Wednesday night, police arrested and charged 30-year-old Clarence Coe, who told a judge at his first court appearance that he is not guilty of kidnapping the girl. Police did not comment on any possible link between Coe and McNeill.
Chance said a hotel worker called police to report seeing a child matching Shaniya's description, but by the time police got there, McNeill had left. Authorities reviewed surveillance video and, after speaking with family members, confirmed the child's identity.
Chance said authorities are uncertain of the connection between McNeill and the child. Her father, Bradley Lockhart, made a tearful appeal for his daughter's safe return.
"We just ask that they bring her home safe. We all miss her and love her very much," Lockhart said. "Shaniya, if you're listening to daddy, I miss you so much, honey. I'm waiting for you. I'm not going to give up. You don't give up either, honey."
In court on Thursday, Cumberland County Judge Tal Baggett asked Coe if he understood why he was there.
"No, but I'm not guilty, sir," Coe said. He did not enter a formal plea to the kidnapping charge, and Baggett said the court would appoint an attorney.
Baggett also said Coe was also accused of "terrorizing" the child's mother, although he did not elaborate.
Chance said a witness spotted Coe taking Shaniya Davis out of the trailer park where she was reported missing.
"I think it's safe to say this is not a random occurrence," Chance said.
Chance also said authorities believe the girl is alive.
"We believe she's safe. We just want him to return her. We have no reason to believe that he would harm her, none at all," Chance said.
Barbara Davenport, property manager at Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home Park, said Coe is dating Shaniya's mother, Antoinette Davis, and has visited several times.
Investigators said police dogs did not pick up the child's scent during a search of the neighborhood.
"Our hopes are that she's close by," Chance said.
Coe was being held at the Cumberland County jail. He has several criminal charges on his state record, including an April conviction for misdemeanor breaking and entering, and he was released from prison in mid-August, according to Department of Correction records.
Coe was previously convicted of assault on a female, felony breaking and entering, larceny, robbery and other charges dating to 2001.
Investigators found a blanket that may have belonged to Shaniya in a garbage can outside a neighbor's home. Lt. Alex Thompson said investigators also found other items Shaniya may have been wearing.
Davis and Shaniya's father, who flew in from out of state, have been speaking with investigators.
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