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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Police in South Carolina are looking for a 1-month-old boy taken from a vehicle at a North Charleston post office.

The State Law Enforcement Division issued an Amber Alert on Monday evening for Angel Miguel Perez. The child was last seen about 5 p.m.

A police dispatcher says the search continued Tuesday.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reported North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said Angel’s mother left him in her idling vehicle as she dropped off mail. She says the boy was gone when she returned.

A witness told police a woman left with the child in a gray, four-door compact vehicle with a spoiler.

The 11-pound boy was wearing a blue shirt, pants and hat.

Police are looking for a black woman in her mid-20s, about 5-foot-1 and 175 pounds, wearing a blue and white striped shirt.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Police in South Carolina are looking for a 1-month-old boy taken from a vehicle at a North Charleston post office.

The State Law Enforcement Division issued an Amber Alert on Monday evening for Angel Miguel Perez. The child was last seen about 5 p.m.

A police dispatcher says the search continued Tuesday.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reported North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said Angel’s mother left him in her idling vehicle as she dropped off mail. She says the boy was gone when she returned.

A witness told police a woman left with the child in a gray, four-door compact vehicle with a spoiler.

The 11-pound boy was wearing a blue shirt, pants and hat.

Police are looking for a black woman in her mid-20s, about 5-foot-1 and 175 pounds, wearing a blue and white striped shirt.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Police in South Carolina are looking for a 1-month-old boy taken from a vehicle at a North Charleston post office.

The State Law Enforcement Division issued an Amber Alert on Monday evening for Angel Miguel Perez. The child was last seen about 5 p.m.

A police dispatcher says the search continued Tuesday.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reported North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said Angel’s mother left him in her idling vehicle as she dropped off mail. She says the boy was gone when she returned.

A witness told police a woman left with the child in a gray, four-door compact vehicle with a spoiler.

The 11-pound boy was wearing a blue shirt, pants and hat.

Police are looking for a black woman in her mid-20s, about 5-foot-1 and 175 pounds, wearing a blue and white striped shirt.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Authorities are searching wooded areas near a mobile home community in southeastern North Carolina for a 5-year-old girl.

The Fayetteville Police Department issued an Amber Alert for Shaniya Nicole Davis. She was reported missing by her mother shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday. She was last seen around 5:30 a.m.

Police spokesman David Sportsman says helicopters have been requested to help the Cumberland County Sheriffs Office, Fayetteville Fire Department and Fayetteville K-9 dog team in searching near the girl’s home.

There are no suspects.

Davis is a black female with brown hair and brown eyes. She is about 3 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with pink underwear.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Authorities are searching wooded areas near a mobile home community in southeastern North Carolina for a 5-year-old girl.

The Fayetteville Police Department issued an Amber Alert for Shaniya Nicole Davis. She was reported missing by her mother shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday. She was last seen around 5:30 a.m.

Police spokesman David Sportsman says helicopters have been requested to help the Cumberland County Sheriffs Office, Fayetteville Fire Department and Fayetteville K-9 dog team in searching near the girl’s home.

There are no suspects.

Davis is a black female with brown hair and brown eyes. She is about 3 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with pink underwear.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Authorities are searching wooded areas near a mobile home community in southeastern North Carolina for a 5-year-old girl.

The Fayetteville Police Department issued an Amber Alert for Shaniya Nicole Davis. She was reported missing by her mother shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday. She was last seen around 5:30 a.m.

Police spokesman David Sportsman says helicopters have been requested to help the Cumberland County Sheriffs Office, Fayetteville Fire Department and Fayetteville K-9 dog team in searching near the girl’s home.

There are no suspects.

Davis is a black female with brown hair and brown eyes. She is about 3 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with pink underwear.

Maria Gonzalez-Lopez, Maria Angela Alvarez

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on Thursday morning issued their second missing-person report in less than 24 hours, saying they are asking the public’s help in finding a mother and daughter who haven’t been seen since Wednesday evening.

Missing are Maria Gonzalez-Lopez and her 2-year-old daughter Maria Angela Alvarez.

Police say the two were last seen about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the area near South Boulevard and Arrowood Road.

Anyone with information in the case is asked to call CMPD detectives, at 704-591-2943.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/topstories/story/1013749.html

Cade "Cadie" Jessup

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – Charlotte police have asked the public to help them find a woman who went missing on Wednesday.

The woman, Victoria Cade “Cadie” Jessup, 33, was last seen in her car driving away from Creekbed Lane in Charlotte, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police.

Creekbed Lane is located just off Park Road near the intersection with Sharon Road.

Jessup, who is a senior project manager for Bank of America, was driving a silver Nissan Maxima with NC Tag #SVP-4160, police said.

Jessup, who goes by the nickname “Cadie,” was last seen wearing a maroon sweatshirt and blue jeans. WBT radio reported that she has plans to get married in mid December.

Anyone with information about the woman’s whereabouts is asked to call 911 or Detective Ring at 980-333-7039.

By JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer Juliet Williams, Associated Press Writer – 16 mins ago

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Police say a convicted sex offender and his wife have been arrested in the kidnapping of an 11-year-old in 1991 who recently walked into a Northern California police station.

Police say 58-year-old Phillip Garrido and his 54-year-old wife Nancy Garrido were arrested in the kidnapping case Wednesday. The Megan’s Law database says Phillip Garrido has a conviction for rape by force or fear.

The woman came into a San Francisco Bay area police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, a blond, ponytailed girl when she was abducted as she headed to a school bus stop 18 years ago.

The woman was in good health. It was not immediately clear when she had surfaced at the station.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials said Thursday they believe a woman who walked into a police station had been kidnapped as an 11-year-old in 1991 outside her South Lake Tahoe home. Two people were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.

The woman came into a San Francisco Bay area police station and said she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, a blond, ponytailed girl when she was abducted as she headed to a school bus stop 18 years ago, said sheriff’s Lt. Les Lovell of the El Dorado Sheriff’s Department.

“We’re 99 percent sure it’s her,” Lovell said. He said DNA tests were being conducted. The woman was in good health. It was not immediately clear when she had surfaced at the station.

Lovell said Concord police did an investigation after the woman surfaced, and he received a call Wednesday from investigators who had tentatively identified her as Dugard.

Her family has been contacted and they are in the process of arranging a meeting, said Lovell, who was a detective assigned to help investigate the kidnapping in 1991. “We are very confident at this point in time that it is her.”

Jimmie Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department, said FBI and El Dorado sheriff’s deputies arrested two suspects Wednesday night. They were being held in the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez.

Lee said the two were being held for investigation of several charges, including kidnapping, but he could not elaborate.

Law enforcement sources said authorities were also searching a home in Antioch.

Dugard’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, said the news was like winning the lottery.

“To have this happen where we get her back alive, and where she remembers things from the past, and to have people in custody is a triple win,” he told The Sacramento Bee.

Witnesses reported that a vehicle with two people drove up to Dugard and abducted her while her stepfather was watching on June 10, 1991, the Sheriff’s Department said in a news release Thursday.

In media reports at the time, the girl’s stepfather said he heard Jaycee scream then jumped on a bicycle and frantically pedaled after the car in a failed effort to follow it up a hill. He then turned around and screamed at neighbors to call 911.

The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV’s “America’s Most Wanted,” which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.

Probyn said his wife, Terry, had spoken with Dugard by phone on Wednesday. He said the mother and their 19-year-old daughter were flying from their Southern California home to meet with Dugard in Northern California.

Investigators first visited with his wife about three weeks ago, he said.

Probyn said he endured years of suspicion from FBI agents who believed he may have been involved in the abduction. He eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive.

“Then you pray that you get her body back so there is an ending,” Probyn said.

Lovell said investigators have been working the case consistently since she was abducted and new leads had surfaced over time.

“You bet it’s a surprise. This is not the normal resolution to a kidnapping,” he said.

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Associated Press Writer Paul Elias in San Francisco contributed to this report.

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Duke cites landmark Alzheimer’s discovery

Confirmation is needed, but scientists report they found a 2nd gene for the brain disease, one that predicts age of onset.

By Sarah Avery
savery@newsobserver.com

Posted: Monday, Jul. 13, 2009

DURHAM In what could be a repeat of their blockbuster gene discovery of 1993, scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified a second gene linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

The new gene not only appears to predict risk, but also pegs the approximate age of onset for the degenerative brain disorder that afflicts 5.3 million Americans.

If the Duke team’s findings are replicated by scientists elsewhere, the discovery could open an additional avenue of research for drug development.

“We now have the ability to look at both [genes],” said Dr. Allen Roses, director of Duke’s Deane Drug Discovery Institute and lead author the study. Findings were presented Sunday at the meeting of the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in Vienna, Austria.

The announcement was met with great interest – and caution – by other scientists.

Since Roses and a team of gene hunters at Duke identified the first genetic link to Alzheimer’s disease 16 years ago, many promising leads have fizzled under further analysis.

“I think this is really interesting, but it needs to be replicated,” said Margaret Pericak-Vance, a genetics researcher at Miami University who was a key member of the group at Duke that identified the original gene, known as APOE.

The gene had been the only one associated with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form. It generally hits people after the age of 65 and gradually robs them of memory, personality and function.

Roses agreed that additional confirmation is necessary. He said he welcomes other groups to verify the findings. He also is working to set up a large international study that will gauge how well the new gene predicts Alzheimer’s disease in the general population, as well as test a potential drug for people whose genetic markers indicate they are at high risk of developing illness.

“We would love to be able to start a study by late 2010,” Roses said.

The new genetic target is called TOMM40, and it has been a subject of interest for several years to geneticists exploring the hereditary nature of Alzheimer’s disease.

Roses’ group homed in on TOMM40 and identified how it and APOE appear to interact and predispose people to get sick.

Like cards dealt from a deck, certain combinations of the two genes and their variations have significance. An unfortunate draw increases the risk of disease, and the risk of it striking before the age of 80.

There are four varieties of the APOE gene. If a person is dealt an APOE4 gene from his mother, and an APOE4 gene from his father, he’s got a double shot of APOE4 – the highest genetic risk for Alzheimer’s. About half the cases of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease are associated with APOE4.

But the other half remained a mystery.

Now it turns out that the APOE3 version of the gene may also be important, depending on what a person has been simultaneously dealt from the TOMM40 deck.

In a way, TOMM40 is a wild card. It comes in two forms – long and short. If a long sequence of TOMM40 is found along with the APOE3 gene, a person has an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease before age 80.

Roses estimates that TOMM40 may account for another 35 percent of Alzheimer’s cases.

“This is potentially a very exciting discovery,” said Dr. Daniel Kaufer of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine’s Memory and Cognitive Disorders Program. “There has been a big black hole in our knowledge of later onset Alzheimer’s. But the real clinical value remains to be seen down the road.”

Police search for missing 15-year-old girl

By Lindsay Ruebens
lruebens@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009

Police are looking for a 15-year-old girl who has been missing since last Thursday.

Tyra Porter was last seen leaving 1602 Dendy Lane in Charlotte around 1:30 p.m.

Police say she is 5-foot-2 and 95 pounds. Her family is concerned about her safety because of health issues.

Anyone with information can reach Detective A.L. Hart at 704-336-4196. Police ask anyone who has seen Porter or knows of her whereabouts to call 911.

America’s Amber Alert system is broken. It takes too long to activate. The criteria required for activation are too strict and inflexible. While geographic considerations are a necessary component of a viable plan, the wrong ones have been applied. The technologies
selected for primary distribution are either antiquated or nonsensical. It does not help the kidnapped children who need it the most.

Ernie Allen, President of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), has repeatedly said that “time is of the essence” when children are kidnapped. His contention is supported by statistics. Only 42.9% of missing children are reported to law enforcement within the first two hours. In 56% of cases, two hours lapsed before reports were made. An Amber Alert cannot be issued until a police report is filed, yet 76.2% of children murdered as a result of abduction are dead within three hours. Why then, did Mr. Allen and his colleagues design a National Amber Alert program that routinely requires 3-5 hours to activate once the criteria has been met and the report has been filed?

My Polly was kidnapped from her bedroom by a bearded, knife-wielding madman in front of two witnesses who were unable to provide descriptive or license plate information on the getaway car. Therefore, Polly’s case would not have merited an Amber Alert. Within an hour of
Polly being kidnapped, two Sheriff’s deputies had the kidnapper within their grasp. Unaware that a crime had occurred, they questioned him and then helped to pull his car out of a ditch and sent him on his way…

Read the rest of Marc’s Klaas Action Review here

Child abducted in eastern NC

NewsChannel 36 Staff

Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009

The Sampson County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a missing child who they believe was abducted.

The missing child is 4-year-old Marlon Ramon Torres. Police say he is approximately 3 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 28 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a black t-shirt with red flashing lights and green shorts.

The suspect in this case is Jose Ramon Torres. Police say he is described as being 31 years old, 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a beige t-shirt with cartoons on the front and Paco blue jeans.

The child was allegedly taken from his home in Autryville. The suspect is reportedly driving a dark blue 1998 Ford Mustang GT with NC license plate number YTJ-9175.

If you have information regarding this case, you’re asked to call the Sampson County Sheriff’s Office at 910-592-1151 or 911.

Over 2000 U.S. kids get lost every day.¹

Less than 10% are reported to any authority.²

Approximately 100 U.S. kids are stereotypically kidnapped by strangers each year.¹

90% of families will experience losing a child in a public place.

• 20% have lost a child more than once.²

7 out of 10 kids get lost at least once in their lives.²

95% will forever remember the trauma of getting lost.²

Parents rank losing a child 5 times more concerning to them than terrorism and 3 times more concerning than abduction.²

Kids get lost most often in malls and stores (45%)²

27% of families that visit an amusement park lose a child while they are there.³

Only 9% of parents put some form of safe ID on their children.²

76% of parents want to know what to do to prevent a child from getting lost.²

Sources:
1: Source = NISMART2: National Incident Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children. U.S. Department of Justice. October 2002.
2: Source = Wander Wear Inc. parent survey, September 2006.
3: Source = IntiMetrix study, 2002.

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There’s an Amber Alert this weekend out of Moore County, North Carolina to help find a 14-year-old girl. Southern Pines police are looking for Gabriela Velazquez. Officers say she is 5-feet 4-inches talll and weighs 120 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes.

Police think 20-year-old Ciro Salina may have taken her from the National Guard Armory. He is described as being 5-feet 6-inches tall and also has black hair and brown eyes.

Police don’t know which direction they could be traveling in. If you see them or recognize their names being used for any purchases, call 9-1-1.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/792496.html

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http://www.charlotteobserver.com/597/story/758672.html

Toddler found in Pineville roadway at 4:30 a.m.

By Steve Lyttle
slyttle@charlotteobserver.com

Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 02, 2009

Police say a toddler found wandering in the middle of a busy Pineville roadway early this morning has been reunited with her parents.

The girl, thought to be 2 or 3 years old, was spotted about 4:30 a.m. in the middle of Johnston Road in Pineville.

The girl was found in the 10200 block of Johnston Road, a short distance north of McMullen Creek Parkway. That is north of Pineville-Matthews Road.

Police say the motorist who found the girl took her to a nearby gas station and called police. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police joined with Pineville police to try and determine where the girl lives.

Authorities began calling phone numbers at residences within a half-mile radius of the Johnston Road area. Shortly before 11 a.m., CMPD Officer Robert Fey said police were able to find the girl’s parents.

The girl was not injured, police say.

Our hearts go out to the family.

The following article is from our local Charlotte Observer, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/721073.html

Alzheimer’s patient found dead in field

State to investigate how the Alzheimer’s patient left unnoticed from an assisted living center in Mooresville.

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
cwootson@charlotteobserver.com

Posted: Wednesday, May. 13, 2009

A 91-year-old grandfather was found dead in a Mooresville field Sunday night, eight hours after he wandered away from an assisted living facility.

Several investigations are being conducted, but officials at Summit Place, in Mooresville, said it appears Joseph Clay Johnston, who had the degenerative brain disease Alzheimer’s, walked away during a Mother’s Day event at the facility.

“There were a lot of children and visitors celebrating the day with their grandparents,” said Joseph Mikalajunas, president of Bell Senior Living, who owns and operates Summit Place, in a statement. He said there appeared to be no foul play.

Johnston was last seen alive at Summit Place around 1:45 p.m., a little less than eight hours before he was located in a field on U.S. 21, police said. Summit officials estimated it was about 400 feet from the facility.

Johnston’s family said Tuesday that they want to know how Johnston, who could barely walk and lived in a secure part of the facility, got away without anyone noticing. He’d lived at Summit Place for more than two years.

“I’m at peace with the fact that my dad’s in a better place, but I’m very upset with the circumstances around his death,” said Cynthia Tyler of Aiken, S.C. “My dad should have passed away in his bed, or in that facility. Not in the middle of a field, by himself, alone.”

Tyler said she got a call from her sister Sunday night, asking if she had been up to see their father. Her sister said officials at Summit Place had called, saying a family member had signed Johnston out.

Tyler said that for the family, taking Johnston, who was unsteady on his feet and in advanced stages of Alzheimer’s was, “out of the question. Most of the time, I go see daddy for my benefit and he just wanted to be in the bed all the time and sleep.”

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services plans to conduct an investigation after police conclude theirs, said Jim Jones, a spokesman for the department, which regulates nursing homes. Jones said inspectors had been inside the facility last week for an annual inspection, but the results were still pending.

He was unsure whether Sunday’s incident would affect the results of that inspection. The facility had no deficiencies or penalties when it was inspected in April 2008.

The death raises the same sort of questions about the safety of residents that came up when Mouy Tang, 46, went missing from a Cleveland County assisted-living home last September.

Tang, who had schizophrenia and other medical issues, was never located. In March, a state advisory panel recommended record fines of $50,000 against Unique Living for violations after an investigation into Tang’s disappearance.