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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Search continues for Madalina Cojocari two months after her disappearance

 


CORNELIUS, N.C. — Saturday marks two months since a missing 11-year-old Cornelius girl was last seen in public.

Madalina Cojocari was seen walking off a school bus on Nov. 21. Her mother, Diana Cojocari, last saw her at their Cornelius home on Nov. 23, but her mother didn’t report her missing until Dec. 15 -- 22 days later.

In January, Diana Cojocari and Christopher Palmiter each were indicted by a grand jury on the charge of failing to report the disappearance of a child to law enforcement.

The search for Madalina expanded into Western North Carolina on Jan 6. Law enforcement sources told Channel 9 they came in contact with Madalina’s mother, Diana Cojocari, in a rural part of Madison County. A deputy came in contact with Cojocari at a pull-off area on U.S. Highway 25 near Lonesome Mountain Road, sources said.

Days later, newly unsealed search warrants shed more light on what investigators are looking for in the case.

According to the documents obtained by Channel 9, investigators went to the home of Madalina Cojocari on Dec. 15. with a search warrant looking for any potential evidence that could be associated with her disappearance. They seized three iPhones and 11 other items from the home, according to the documents.

Then later, on Dec. 21, Channel 9 was at the home as police seized more items.

Information about what was taken from the home on both dates was redacted from the warrants, but it appears investigators took nearly 40 pieces of evidence.

The Cornelius Police Department, the SBI, and the FBI continue to search for Madalina. Those departments have posted flyers and billboards of Madalina since she went missing.


Saturday, August 15, 2020

Mystery over Alicia Navarro’s disappearance continues after almost a year

MISSING - Alicia Navaro


Posted at 11:30 AM, Aug 13, 2020

and last updated 7:27 PM, Aug 13, 2020
GLENDALE, AZ — It’s been almost a year since 15-year-old Alicia Navarro went missing from her home in Glendale.
Alicia has autism and relies on medication, leading her family to believe she could be in danger.

“We’re living where there’s a lot of missing children and I cannot give up in looking for her,” expressed Jessica Nuñez, Alicia’s mother.

Nuñez spoke to the ABC15 Investigators to ask the community to not give up on her daughter.

“I’m very persistent in my daughter’s case because if I'm not, no one will be.”
For almost 365 days, Nuñez has not stopped looking for her daughter. She has been determined to get more funds for billboards with Alicia’s information posted on them.

“We were able to get a billboard thanks to a local union support of a donation on the I-10 and 75th Avenue and some additional digital boards that were also donated. At the moment, we were able to get Glendale to also put up two billboards,” said Nuñez.
Nuñez has also been sharing an image of how Alicia would look during the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. She is hoping people will recognize her wearing a mask.



Alicia wearing a mask 1.jpg
“If I'm not her advocate, if I don't speak for her, who will?”

She’s tried it all: television, radio, national news, handing out flyers in the community, reaching out through social media, and now a possible reward.
“There’s still no leads, no information about where my daughter's whereabouts are,” said Nuñez.

She is worried about her own daughter, but also others out there.

“I believe there has to be some type of education programs to our youth about the risks online. Trafficking.”
Nuñez believes Alicia was groomed online, but Jose Santiago with Glendale Police Department says they’re looking into everything.

“There’s nothing that specifically says that she has come in contact with someone or any individuals online. We can tell you that the cell phone that she had hasn’t been used since she left that night,” stated Santiago.

Meanwhile, Nuñez says all she can do now is plead for her safe return and sends this message to Alicia: “You left me a letter and you swore to me that you were going to come back. I know that if you could, you would have called me already. I miss you and that there’s nothing that you could have done or are doing to lower my love for you. I'm here ready to receive you in open arms."

Nuñez also asks for compassion to the people who may know where Alicia may be.

“What is done is done. I'm asking for compassion for me and my family. We miss her very much and we love her.”
If you have any information about Alicia, call the Glendale Police Department at 623-930-3000.

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Megan Boswell says she knows who has Evelyn, claims she was afraid to report her missing


UPDATE: The Wilkes County, North Carolina Sheriff's Office says they have arrested two people in connection to the Amber Alert for missing 15-month-old Evelyn Boswell.


The news release says William McCloud and Angela Boswell have been arrested and charged with possession of stolen property. Authorities say the two were found inside of the BMW that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office were searching for in the Boswell investigation.
Both McCloud and Boswell are residents of Tennessee.
No other information was released by the department.
Original Article:

COUNTY, Tenn. — Evelyn Boswell has been missing since December, but she wasn’t reported missing until Tuesday.

News 5 was there when Megan Boswell, who is Evelyn's mother, walked out of a court in Bristol. When she walked outside, she initially wouldn't talk to us. Now, she is speaking with News 5 about the case.

Boswell says she didn’t contact police because she thought the person who took her daughter would disappear.

"Well the reason I didn't report it or anything was I knew the person who had her, and I didn't want them to run away with her," Boswell said. "And as soon as they thought anything was going on they just kinda vanished. So I'm just kinda worried, you know, about where they are at. What they're doing with her at this point in time."

She says that Evelyn was with a person she trusted to watch her daughter while she was at work.

But Boswell says she cannot name names.

"In a way I knew that as soon as anything went down this person was going to disappear and they have. And they have tried to find them... They won't answer phone calls. They just kinda disappeared."

Boswell tells News 5 she'd do things differently if she is given a second chance.

"Yeah I probably would have called the first day. I should have. But I just didn't want them to run with her, like they have now."

In an afternoon press conference, Sullivan County Sheriff Jeff Cassidy said Boswell is involved in the investigation, but he says the information she has given them isn't accurate. Cassidy said some of the things she has told them does not lead up to the information authorities have checked on.

If you have any information on where Evelyn is, contact the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.


Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Missing Fort Lauderdale teen featured on new John Walsh investigation series


By  Contact ReporterSouth Florida Sun Sentinel


John Walsh (right) and his son Callahan Walsh host a new investigation and missing children's show "In Pursuit With John Walsh'' on Investigations Discovery. The show features the cases of two missing children each week. (Scott Witter / Courtesy)
The teen with the wavy brown hair and shy smile was last seen leaving her home in Fort Lauderdale. That was almost two years ago and her family and police continue searching for Sophie Reeder, now 17.


The case is getting renewed attention on the new John Walsh investigation and missing person’s show “In Pursuit with John Walsh,’’ which was scheduled to air a segment on the teen’s disappearance Wednesday on Investigation Discovery.
Reeder lived with her father, Patrick Reeder, in Fort Lauderdale where she was enrolled in a virtual school. Evidence from her computer suggests that she may be with an adult male predator, according to the show.
Flyers with her photo and description have been distributed over the past two years in South Florida and on social media. She was last seen walking away from her home at 1308 Citrus Isle, according to Fort Lauderdale police. And she was known to hang out near Stranahan High School.
The Investigation Discovery show debuted Jan. 16 and highlights two missing children as well as unsolved violent crimes each week. The show airs 10 p.m. Wednesdays on the cable network.

To help spark leads for the missing children cases, the show is using “age-progression photos and descriptions.”
“If at least one child comes home and one homicide is solved, we will have done our job,” said John Walsh, the former South Florida resident who is a host and executive producer of the series, which has a partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children or NCMEC where son Callahan Walsh works. Callahan Walsh also appears on the show as a roving reporter who visits the scenes of violent crimes in search of clues to find fugitives.
Anyone with information on Sophie Reeder or other cases is asked to call the show’s call center at 1-833-3-PURSUE or submit a tip at www.InPursuitTips.com. Anonymous tips are accepted.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Area residents rally for 'missing children'; unaccompanied minor immigrants


by Ricardo Torres

RACINE — Members of the public and the Racine Interfaith Coalition gathered on the steps of City Hall on Monday to ask a pointed question: “Where are the children?”

The question is reference to information that came out in April that the federal Department of Health and Human Services allegedly has lost track of more than 1,400 children who were picked up as unaccompanied minors at the southern border of the United States.

Linda Boyle, co-president of RIC, said the children are being used to “punish immigrants” who have come into the country.
“We must take action,” Boyle said. “We must demand that this action stops.”

Boyle lead the group of about 50 people in a prayer asking for “the courage to stand up in their defense against those who would do them harm.”

Having tried to influence House Speaker Paul Ryan, Boyle said individuals like Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and state Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, might be able to sway their party ally Ryan.

“I think we start locally and put pressure on our local politicians,” Boyle said. “It will trickle up. If we put enough pressure on (them) it will trickle up. We always talk about Paul Ryan — he’s not listening. But if the right people start contacting him like Mr. Vos or Mr. Wanggaard, they’ll get the idea.”

Historical ties


Racine resident and longtime immigrant advocate Maria Morales spoke about the necessity to make sure this fight doesn’t end.

“Thousands of families are being torn apart at the border,” Morales said. “We have to stand up and speak up for these kids, they’re defenseless.”

For Morales, speaking about immigration on the steps of City Hall brought back memories to 2003, she said, of fighting for immigrant rights and children, often known as “Dreamers.” The label is a reference to the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for those children who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.

“This is the place where we had the first immigrant march in Racine,” Morales said. “We did our immigrant march here because we were doing a freedom ride to Washington, D.C., supporting the DREAM Act, supporting a humane legalization legislation for all immigrants. This is home to us.”
Another speaker was Kennia Coronado, a Horlick High School graduate and currently a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

From her time living in California, Coronado said anti-immigrant legislation has “persisted since I was a child.”



“I don’t remember a single point in my life when I have not been helping or organizing my family and immigrant families alike to fight for our existence,” Coronado said. “We continuously have to live under these fears and the fears of our families being separated.”

After meeting in Racine, the group met again in Kenosha at Ryan’s office and held another rally.

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Child-on-Child Sexual Assault at Ft. Rucker

Army officials are now acknowledging they've investigated reports of child-on-child sexual assaults at Fort Rucker.

The disclosure comes amid an Associated Press investigation that found many sexual assault reports among children at U.S. military bases where service member families live have languished in a dead zone of justice, in which victims and offenders go without help.

New documents released to AP show Army criminal investigators opened at least three cases at the southern Alabama base, concluding all were true.

Initially, Army's Criminal Investigation Command released a list of 223 sexual assaults among juveniles that showed none at major installations including Fort Rucker.

After reporters challenged the list's accuracy, the agency added 86 cases. It declines to share the number of reports it says are still being investigated.

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Friday, October 12, 2012

FBI Stories - North to Alaska:



North to Alaska
Part 1: Smallest FBI Office Takes on Big Job
10/12/2012
The FBI recently investigated a white powder letter incident in Alaska with the help of a partner law enforcement agency. “It took our partners two days to get to the place where the white powder letter was,” said Mary Frances Rook, special agent in charge of our Anchorage Field Office, “because they had to take a ferry and a plane and an all-terrain vehicle to get to the school where the letter had been sent.”
Welcome to the Anchorage Divisionthe FBI’s smallest field officewhose agents are responsible for covering the most territory of any office in the Bureau. That’s an area of more than 600,000 square miles, twice the size of Texas and packed with natural beauty and hard-to-reach places.

Anchorage

An Opportunity for New Agents
Of the FBI’s 56 field offices, Anchorage has the fewest personnel—but that turns out to be an opportunity for new agents assigned there fresh out of the FBI Academy.
“It’s a huge benefit for a first-office agent to come to a place like Anchorage because you get to do so many things,” said Special Agent in Charge Mary Frances Rook. “You aren’t pigeonholed here. Some of our biggest cases have been made by first-office agents. That’s not an experience you are going to find in a larger office because those cases usually go to the more senior agents,” she explained. “Here everybody has the opportunity to develop a case and run with it and be successful.”
Rick Sutherland, a former North Carolina police officer, joined the FBI in 2009 and his first office was Fairbanks, in our three-man resident agency. Shortly after his arrival, he was assigned a domestic terrorism case that recently ended with the subject’s lengthy trial and conviction. “Getting this case and this kind of experience so early in my FBI career was a great opportunity,” Sutherland said, “and it might not have happened had I been sent to a large office.”

Although the Anchorage Division investigates the same types of violent crime, public corruption, and national security matters as FBI offices in the Lower 48, “there is so much that is different here,” said Rook—and she’s not just referring to the bears and moose occasionally spotted on downtown Anchorage streets.
“If you’re in Anchorage, there are roads to Fairbanks and to the Kenai Peninsula, but other than that there are no roads,” Rook said. Getting to remote villages and towns requires a plane or a boat. Combine the geographical difficulties with extreme weather and one begins to understand how the 49th state can pose considerable challenges for the agents and support staff in Anchorage and our satellite locations in Fairbanks and Juneau.
Few FBI offices require snowmobiles to respond to crime scenes, but Anchorage keeps two on hand. The harsh Alaskan winters, where temperatures can plummet to more than 50 degrees below zero and the sun rises above the horizon for only a few hours each day, can make being outdoors seem almost otherworldly.
“It can be a challenging place to work,” Rook acknowledged. “But the flip side is that everybody knows it. So everybody works together. We work great with each other and with our local and federal law enforcement partners. Everybody’s got each other’s back, because you just can’t survive up here alone.”
Not surprisingly, it takes a certain kind of person to work for the FBI in Alaska. “The most successful Bureau people here are the ones who come with an idea that this is going to be a great adventure,” said Rook, whose assignment in Anchorage began in January 2011.
Special Agent Catherine Ruiz, who transferred to Anchorage with her husband last year from Chicago, agreed. “Every few days you will be driving home and you look up at the snowcapped mountains and say, ‘Wow, this is a beautiful place.’ ”
Bureau personnel who come to Alaska tend to be multi-talented as well. “We don’t have a lot of resources,” Rook said, “so everyone has to do a little bit of everything.” One of the office’s three pilots, for example, is also the polygraph examiner and a full-time counterintelligence agent. “That’s not unusual,” Rook noted.
“I originally thought I would come to Alaska for a few years,” said Special Agent Eric Gonzalez. That was 15 years ago. Gonzalez liked the place and the people—and so did his family. He added, “Most of the Bureau folks I know who worked here and left wished they would have stayed.”
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Feds investigate 'Anonymous'; protest planned today: SF

Another BART protest is planned in San Francisco today. The computer hacking group, "Anonymous," says they plan to protest at the Powell Street, Embarcadero and Civic Center stations today. 

The group has planned a protest every Monday since BART temporarily shut down cell service last month to avoid a protest over the killing of Charles Hill in July. Last Thursday a protest by another group, "No Justice, No BART" shut down the Powell Street station and ended with the arrests of more than two dozen demonstrators.

Meanwhile, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal investigators have now opened a series of official investigations into the hacker group. The FBI has carried out more than 75 raids and arrested 16 people this year in connection with illegal hacking jobs claimed by Anonymous.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Department of Justice Releases Investigative Findings on the Puerto Rico Police Department:


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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Department of Justice Releases Investigative Findings on the Puerto Rico Police Department:

WASHINGTON – 

Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department today announced its findings that the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) has engaged in a pattern and practice of misconduct that violates the Constitution and federal law.   The investigation, launched in July 2008, was conducted in accordance with the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

 

The Justice Department found reasonable cause to believe that a pattern and practice of unconstitutional conduct and/or violations of federal law occurred in several areas, including:  

  • Use of excessive force;
  • Use of unreasonable force and other misconduct designed to suppress the exercise of protected First Amendment rights; and
  • Unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests.  

In addition to these findings, the investigation uncovered other serious concerns. In particular, the investigation uncovered troubling evidence that PRPD frequently fails to properly investigate and document sex crimes and incidents of domestic violence, and that PRPD engages in discriminatory policing practices that target individuals of Dominican descent.   At this time, the division has not made a formal finding of a pattern and practice violation in these areas, in part because PRPD does not adequately collect data to evaluate these issues.

 

The Justice Department found a number of long-standing and entrenched systemic deficiencies that caused or contributed to these patterns of unlawful conduct, including:  

  • A failure of PRPD to implement policies to guide officers on lawful policing practices, including the application of force;
  • Tactical units that have been permitted to develop violent subcultures;
  • Insufficient pre-service and in-service training;
  • Inadequate supervision;
  • Ineffective systems of complaint intake, investigation and adjudication;
  • An ineffective disciplinary system;
  • Limited risk management; and
  • A lack of external oversight and accountability.

“The Puerto Rico Police Department is broken in a number of critical ways.   The problems are wide ranging and deeply rooted, and have created a crisis of confidence that makes it extremely difficult to develop police-community partnerships that are a cornerstone of effective policing,” said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.  “Our findings should serve as a foundation to transform the police department and to help restore the community’s trust in fair, just and effective law enforcement.   The problems within the PRPD have been present for many years and will take time to fix, but we look forward to continuing our work with the people of Puerto Rico, Governor Luis Fortuño, Superintendent Emilio Díaz Colón and his officers to create and implement a comprehensive blueprint for sustainable reform.”  

 

The Justice Department’s thorough and independent investigation involved an in-depth review of PRPD practices, as well as extensive community engagement.   Department attorneys and investigators conducted exhaustive interviews with command staff and rank-and-file officers at PRPD headquarters and 10 of PRPD’s 13 police areas; participated in ride-alongs with officers and supervisors; attended training courses at the police academy; and reviewed thousands of pages of documents.   The division also met with and interviewed external stakeholders, including community members and local civil rights organizations.

 

Throughout the investigation, the division provided feedback and technical assistance to PRPD, and PRPD has taken a number of remedial measures.   To create lasting reform, Puerto Rico must act decisively, transparently and immediately.   PRPD must develop and implement new policies and protocols, and train its officers in effective and constitutional policing.   In addition, PRPD must implement systems to ensure accountability, foster police-community partnerships, improve the quality of policing throughout the commonwealth and eliminate unlawful bias from all levels of policing decisions.

 

The department will seek to obtain a court enforceable agreement and will work with PRPD, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the community to develop and implement a comprehensive reform plan with the judicial oversight needed to address the violations of the Constitution and federal law.  

 

“The findings are an outgrowth of a transparent, inclusive process in which we heard critical feedback from police officers, community leaders, governmental officials and other key stakeholders.   We will continue to actively engage all stakeholders in the process of developing and implementing a comprehensive blueprint for sustainable reform that will reduce crime, ensure respect for the Constitution and restore public confidence in the Puerto Rico Police Department,” continued Assistant Attorney General Perez.  

 

This investigation was conducted by the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division with the assistance of law enforcement professionals, including former police chiefs and supervisors who provided in-depth knowledge and expertise.