It was announced earlier today that 20 year old Rachel Bruno, the granddaughter of NY Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was found in Manhattan’s Time Square.
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Bruno’s granddaughter, Rachel Bruno, disappeared back on Wednesday July 26th, after she failed to contact her family or work place. The 20-year-old girl from Brunswick finally contacted her mother Tuesday in tears before the call ended.
State police found Rachel Bruno Wednesday walking in Manhattan. Senator Bruno credits the work of the New York State police for Rachel’s safety.
Police are still unsure as to whether Rachel Bruno voluntarily ran away from home. During todays press conference it was mentioned that Rachel Bruno suffers from anorexia, eating disorder and other emotional problems it has caused. However, Police arrested John Savage, 30, Wednesday in New York. John Savage was with Rachel Bruno and the two apparently met online.
But the police aren’t sure Rachel Bruno’s week away from home was her own decision. Police arrested John Savage, 30, Wednesday in New York. He was with Rachel Bruno and the two apparently met online. Police are not calling him a suspect in Rachel Bruno’s disappearance yet, but they’re looking into it.
“When she called yesterday, really hysterically weeping that she wished she could come home, we had pretty much put together that she was in real trouble,” said Senator Bruno.
(Capital News 9)
Bruno’s Granddaughter, 20, Is Found in Times Square
The missing granddaughter of Joseph L. Bruno, the majority leader of the State Senate, was found early yesterday in Times Square, where she had gone with a man who has been convicted of trying to bribe a Bronx police officer, officials said.
The man, John Savage, 30, was arrested on a probation violation shortly after he pulled up in a car at Broadway and 45th Street, according to the New York police. In 2002, Mr. Savage was convicted of paying a police officer $690 to tip him off about crackdowns on prostitution in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, an area plagued by that problem. The officer reported the bribe offer and took part in the investigation.
(New York Times)
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:34pm
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Fernando Pascual, 22, of North Fort Meyers was sentenced to 10 years in prison for harboring a 13 year old Guatemalan girl as a sex slave and housekeeper. Also charged were Pascual, his sister, Matilde Pascual Andres, and Andres’ husband, Pascual Miguel Sebastian.
A U-S district judge sentenced 22-year-old Fernando Pascual Tuesday. As part of a plea deal, Pascual pleaded guilty in March to charges of sex trafficking and harboring an illegal immigrant for commercial gain. His sentence of ten years was in exchange for the victim not having to testify.
Pascual, his sister, Matilde Pascual Andres, and Andres’ husband, Pascual Miguel Sebastian, were charged in May 2005 with harboring a young girl in a Cape Coral home.
Prosecutors said the girl was bought in Guatemala and brought to Cape Coral, where she was raped, beaten and forced to work.
(WFTV)
August 2nd, 2006 at 09:54am
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Italian authorities are almost certain that the body they found off the Italian coast is 
that of missing 22 year old Elizabeth Galeana. The body found matches the description of Elizabeth Galeana including identifiable scars.
However, FBI authorities in Tampa wouldn’t confirm Monday that her body had been found. They did say a body was found between the islands of Ponza and Palmarola off the coast of Italy, which is near where the Royal Caribbean cruise ship was at the time Elizabeth went missing.
“In law enforcement we like to positively identify through dental records or fingerprints,” said Carol Michalik, spokeswoman for the Tampa office of the FBI. According to officials with Royal Caribbean, Elizabeth, who attended Gulf Coast High School in Collier County as a senior in 2000, was last seen just after midnight on Monday, July 24, as she entered her parents’ stateroom on the third day of a seven-day trip in the Mediterranean Sea.
What has been most strange about this missing persons case is the fact that the family immediately took the tack that there was no “foul play” involved in the disappearance of Elizabeth Galeana. Some merit is given to that premise when we hear that some of the cruise passengers who saw Elizabeth Galeana that last night she was alive.
However, one passenger who contacted the Daily News on Monday was concerned that he and others who were the last to see Elizabeth alive hadn’t been interviewed yet.
Paul Gebbink of the Netherlands said members of the Dallas-based company, International Network, saw Elizabeth alive late Monday night and early Tuesday morning. Gebbink was on the same floor with the Galeana family. “She was sitting at 11 p.m. and crying,” Gebbink said.
He said Galeana was wearing a black top and white slacks. She was later seen around 1 a.m. Tuesday by a colleague of Gebbink’s, who said she seemed happy. Gebbink questions why he and his colleagues haven’t been contacted by authorities, considering they were likely some of the last people to see her alive. “I think it is my responsibility to tell someone,” he said.
(Bonita News)
We understand the families want for privacy in what is just a terrible event; however, there seems to be something missing from this puzzle that would explain what actually occurred. That does not change the fact that a 22 year old girl died far too early.
Autopsy Done On Body Believed To Be Missing Florida Woman
Latina Prosecutor Raffaella Falcione said that she had not yet received the official report on the autopsy but that the coroner had told her that the body had “no signs of external lesions” — an indication that no foul play was involved.
Little doubt remains that the body found Friday was that of 22-year-old Elizabeth Kay Galeana of Naples, Florida, authorities said. Galeana’s family has said she was dead and that no foul play was suspected.
(WFTV)
August 2nd, 2006 at 09:02am
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