Macomb Sheriff holds news conference in missing Tara Grant case
Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel is holding a news conference at 11 a.m. today regarding the missing to discuss a missing Tara Grant.
Tara Grant went missing on Feb. 9. Since then, there’s been a firestorm of local and national media attention surrounding the mysterious disapperance of Grant, who’s a wife, mother of two and operations manager for a large engineering company.
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Grant said he couldn’t verify risque e-mail exchanges purportedly between himself and a former girlfriend in late January that were turned over to authorities this week. He said some portions were familiar but that he didn’t recognize some of the entries.
However, he dismissed their racy flirtatious tone as the playful joking of former lovers.
“It was the kind of banter we had,” he said, refusing to identify the woman. (Detroit Free Press)
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UPDATE I: News Conference
“We’re not going to leave any stone unturned,” Hackel said today during a news conference, without getting into specifics of the search area. “We’re hopeful that she’s still alive.”
Reserve deputies will canvass wooded areas near places like Stony Creek and nearby trails on all-terrain vehicles and horseback. The public is also asked to keep an eye out for Grant and call the Sheriff’s Office at (586) 307-9358 with leads.
UPDATE I: Search for Macomb County woman ends with no clues
A four and a half hour search this morning for a missing Macomb County mother turned up no clues in her disappearance.
Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel called off the search for Tara Lynn Grant at about 12:30 p.m. today. About 150 members of the sheriff’s department, including deputies and reserves, and members of the Stony Creek Metropark Police had fanned out about 8 a.m. over the 5,000-acre park and adjacent wooded areas.
“We didn’t find anything,” Hackel said.
He said deputies would regroup over the weekend and “come Monday morning we might have another plan (Detroit Free Press)