Sophia Alanizm is missing and family fears that maybe she has been abducted by previous acquaintance.
More than 24 hours after Sophia Alaniz’s disappearance, her family passed out 500 missing person posters around Plainview and Lubbock. Barbara Croswell did not think she would be passing out information about her missing cousin.
“I know she left him a couple of weeks ago and was staying with a good friend. He found out where she was,” said Barbara.
Marcus Barrios dated Sophia for six months. She left him when she found out his sorted past. “The last run-in was a stalking charge. He had a history of assaults against ex-girlfriends,” said Constable Mark Mull.
Hale County Crime stoppers is offering a reward up to $1,000 for information leading to Barrio’s arrest. The two were last seen driving away in a 2002 Chevy Malibu like this one with the license plate number H17-ZRJ .
The car also has a Longhorn sticker on the back window. If you have any information, call the Texas Rangers at (806) 296-2724. Because of Barrios’s history of violence and gang relations, Hale County called the Texas Rangers and the U.S. Marshals to assist.
Update: Lubbock Police Find Missing Plainview Woman
A Plainview woman is safe and her accused kidnapper behind bars. Lubbock Police found Sophia Anne Alaniz and Marcus Edward Barrios at a Central Lubbock apartment complex, early Wednesday morning.
Hale County authorities had been searching for the two since Monday when Barrios allegedly abducted his ex-girlfriend from a home in Plainview.
Update: Lubbock PD arrests kidnapping suspect
Police arrested suspected kidnapper Marcos Edward Barrios Tuesday night after leads led officials to his Lubbock apartment.
Lubbock police found Barrios and 35-year-old Sophia Anne Alaniz, who Barrios allegedly kidnapped Tuesday morning in Plainview, at about 11 p.m. Tuesday outside of the Hickory Tree Apartments located at 1629 16th St.
Barrios, who police named as a suspect in the abduction following tips from witnesses, was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant.
Witnesses claimed Barrios lured Alaniz from a house located in the 200 block of southeast Sixth Street, just outside Plainview city limits, at about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday, Hale County Sheriff’s deputies said.
Barrios allegedly forced Alaniz into a gray 2000 Chevrolet Malibu and drove east on Texas 194, Lubbock police said.
November 3rd, 2005 at 02:06pm
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The family of missing missing 27 year old Christie Wilson can only say the following after two long agonizing week, “We want to bring her home. We want that part of this nightmare over as soon as possible.
A Gilroy family is losing hope of finding their daughter alive. She has been missing for two weeks.
Christie Wilson, 27, of Sacramento, was last scene Oct. 4 leaving a Placer County casino with a man. But no one has heard from her since.
Images of Wilson and Mario Garcia, 53, were captured on casino surveillance video. Investigators are calling Garcia a “person of interest” in the case.
It only leaves many of us to wonder why such “persons of interest” are walking among us with past histories like they have? With past histories like this I guess we are to presume they will never occur again.
Garcia has been arrested on unrelated weapons charges and is in custody. Investigators said they found a hair in his car that may belong to Wilson.
Garcia has a criminal history that includes charges of rape, kidnapping and assault. His bail has been set at $1 million.
Update from KXTV, Investigators “Making Progress” in Missing Woman Case
Placer County investigators have located two of the three people they wanted to talk to in connection with the disappearance of a Sacramento woman
Authorities also said they talked to another casino customer yesterday who’d had contact with Wilson but was not one of the three seen on tape playing with Wilson and Garcia.
Lt. George Malim of the Placer County Sheriff’s Department said detectives are following all leads in the case and making progress every day. “We’re confident we’ll be making an arrest out of this,” Malim said.
October 20th, 2005 at 11:21pm
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Father asks for help in finding kidnapped son, Erik Buran, as warrants issued for kidnapping.
A Reno father is asking for the public’s help in finding his 4-year-old son 
believed abducted by his mother in April. Lyon County issued a warrant June 27 charging Karen O’Grady, 49, with felony kidnapping in the abduction of her son, Erik Buran, on April 25. According to father, Robert Buran, he and his ex-wife have shared joint custody of Erik since their divorce in 2001. Buran had Erik three days a week, and O’Grady had him four days. Just before the abduction, Buran had filed for sole custody of his son and had lodged a complaint with Child Protective Services alleging O’Grady’s boyfriend physically abused Erik. Since then, a Reno judge awarded Buran sole custody.
Erik is listed as missing by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Nevada Child Seekers, Child Find of America and the Vanished Children’s Alliance.
Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse Online Bulletin -Poster
• Erik Buran is 4 years old, 3 feet, 6 inches tall, with bluish-grey eyes and sandy blonde hair.
• Karen O’Grady is 49 years old, 5 feet 4 inches tall, with blue eyes and brown hair. She also uses the last names of Akers, Buran and Ligon.
• Anyone with information about their whereabouts or about a motor home O’Grady or her companion purchased just before they disappeared is asked to call the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department at 577-5096.
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Project Jason: Voice for the Missing has an amazing piece on Erik Buran and has been following the story since the beginning. They bring up a rather perplexing issue when it comes to Amber Alerts, although it seems that rules were bent when it came to missing teen, VCU freshman, Taylor Behl. It would seem to me that when it came to the safety of a child no rule is beyond breaking. Why no Amber Alert issued is sad. This program was set up to alert people and help find children, not create frustrating road blocks.
I want to remind you of the post I made on September 16th, entitled “Rules Meant to be Broken?”. This post outlined the State of Virgina’s Amber Alert criteria, admittedly broken for Taylor Behl. As of news stories today, police still state they have no evidence of foul play in her case. The State never responded to my letter, which asked how they were able to do this for Taylor. In Nevada, Robert Buran has been told that Erik does not meet their criteria because it is a case that involves parental abduction. Robert tells me that his research shows that since the Amber Alert began in Nevada in July of 2003, 15 Amber Alerts have been issued. 9 of those 15 were cases of parental abductions, with one being issued by the jurisdiction that tells Robert “no”.
Written plea from Erik’s dad. Erik Buran Discussion Forum
September 28th, 2005 at 01:29am
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