A convicted felon, who had been staying with the family, had recently been released 
from the Ozaukee County Jail, disappeared along with three young Oostburg girls. The man had a long criminal record. The disappearance of the three young girls, ages 6, 8 and 13 was the subject of an Amber Alert. The man has been arrested and the girls are safe.
Jail staff said the man was booked into the facility at about 10 a.m., just hours after the girls were found in Belgium and Milwaukee.
Sheboygan County sheriff’s authorities say the girls’ mother reported her daughters missing early Monday after she woke up and found they had not returned with the man.
The girls are ages 6, 8 and 13. The girls were found at about 6 a.m.
Ozaukee County authorities contacted people at a Belgium home and determined the 6- and 13-year-old girls were there.
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Amber Alert leads to safe return of missing Oostburg girls
Three Oostburg girls abducted Sunday night —allegedly by their mother’s jilted ex-boyfriend — were found safe and sound this morning and reunited with their mother at the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department.
The abduction of the girls triggered the first-ever Amber Alert initiated by the sheriff’s department.
February 13th, 2006 at 07:42pm
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Willcox Arizona Police have issued an Amber Alert and is looking for Joyce Apostolou. She went missing on her way to school this morning: 151 W Maley Street, Willcox AZ on Thursday, February 2nd at 7:30AM. Be on the look out and call WILLCOX PD at 520-384-4673 with any information you may have.
- Name: Joyce Apostolou
- Age: 16 years
- Race: White
- Gender/Sex: Female
- Hair Color: Brown with Blond Highlights
- Eye Color: Brown
- Height: 5’6″
- Weight: 150lbs
- Clothing: dl blue sweatshirt long sleeved, black beanie, tan pants, white sneakers, carrying yellow & black backpack with some type of writing on it
- Other: Shoulder length hair with pierced ears
If you have any information on this incident, please call 911 or contact the WILLCOX PD at 520-384-4673.
To see additional information about the victim(s), suspect(s) or vehicle(s) visit http://www.arizonaamberalert.com/
WPHO, Willcox Girl Missing
UPDATE: AMBERT ALERT Cancellation
Female was located when she walked into the Circle K, she is ok. Amber Alert is no longer necessary.
February 2nd, 2006 at 09:34pm
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Illinois Authorities cancelled the Amber alert issued for a 5-year-old Makayla Christy who was kidnapped by her grandmother, Deborah McFadden. Makayla Christy was found unharmed with her grandmother this morning in a motel inear Granite City, IL.
Illinois Authorities cancelled an Amber alert issued for a 5-year-old girl who was kidnapped by her grandmother late Sunday.
Makayla Christy was found unharmed with her grandmother about 8:40 a.m. in a motel in the outskirts of Granite City, Ill., where she’d been taken from her mother the previous evening.
The 44-year-old grandmother, Deborah McFadden, was being interviewed by authorities and may face kidnapping charges, police said.
Authorities initially believed she was heading for Texas because she drove away with Makayla in a Mercury Sable bearing a Texas license number.
“We traced the call to a motel and found them there,” Miller said. “We arrested the grandmother and returned the girl to her mother.”
(Star-Telegram)
January 30th, 2006 at 06:07pm
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Missing 5-year-old Makayla Christy’s local SARAA Alert has been changed to a nationwide AMBER Alert. Makayla Christy was last seen around 6:15 p.m. Sunday night riding in her grandmother’s car, who is facing previous felony warrants.
Police say Makayla Christy was last seen around 6:15 p.m. Sunday night riding in her grandmother’s car on Pontoon Road in Pontoon Beach, Ill. Her grandmother, Deborah Gaye McFadden is driving a 2000 silver Mercury Sable with Texas license Z25-DWM. McFadden said she was taking the girl to Texas.
Makayla’s Description: 
- Height: two feet five inches
- Weight: 41 pounds
- Eyes brown
- Hair: brown hair in a shoulder length ponytail
- She is wearing a black t-shirt with pink writing reading ‘I’m Not Perfect But I’m Always Right’ and khaki capri pants. She was not wearing shoes or a coat at the time of her abduction.
Her grandmother’s name is Deborah Gaye McFadden. She also goes by the aliases of Deborah Gaye Smiley and Deborah Rohrback.
If you see Makayla Christy or the car, please call Granite City police at (618) 877-6111.
(KSDK 5 )
Amber Alert issued for 5-year old Illinois girl
The Illinois State Police and the Granite City Police Department issued the AMBER Alert after the girl was apparently abducted by her grandmother on Sunday. The grandmother is currently free on bond on a murder charge and the child is considered to be in danger.
(North Texas E-News)
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The suspect is Deborah McFadden, 44 years, white female, 5’4″, 115 lbs with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing light blue jeans, a gray sweat shirt and a black jacket. She has her belongings with her so she may have changed clothes.
January 30th, 2006 at 01:35am
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Rahsaan Cole, 10-month-old, was taken by her father, Todd D. Ballard, 29. The girls mother was found dead in her home. Rahsaan was last seen wearing blue jeans and a pink top.
Police said they believe Rahsaan Cole was taken by her father, Todd D. Ballard, 29, sometime before 3 a.m., when the girl’s mother was found dead in her home. The girl was last seen wearing blue jeans and a pink top at her home in the city’s Bloomfield neighborhood.
Police issued an Amber Alert early Friday.
(NEPA News)
January 15th, 2006 at 04:01am
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An Amber Alert was issued Wednesday for 10-year-old Shantelle Tylameka Hines and her older sister Keonte Lavale Hines. 
The two girls left their grandmother’s home Wednesday morning after the 55-year-old woman was beaten, police said.
Authorities were looking for Shantelle Tylameka Hines and her older sister Keonte Lavale Hines, who police said was a suspect in the beating.
Wright said the girls left Hardy’s home in a burgundy 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix with an American flag on the trunk. The license plate is 890MPG.
Shantelle Tylameka Hines and her older sister Keonte Lavale Hines were found in good condition at a Georgia motel.
Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said a person in Monroe County, Ga., heard the alert and noticed the car the older girl was said to be driving at a hotel and called police.
Wright said both girls were unharmed.
Authorities in Forsythe, Ga., apprehended Keonte Hines.
Wright said she faces warrants for assault, battery and grand larceny.
Wright said Keonte Hines will have a hearing Thursday morning. Further charges such as kidnapping could still be filed, Wright said.
Authorities find missing 10-year-old S.C. girl in Georgia
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There are so many times that writing about missing persons cases and getting personally 
involved with searches is difficult at best and emotionally draining. Then one thinks just how fortunate you are and the pain, anguish and utter desperation that parents and loved ones are going through. This is their world and their life. The loss of a child is a pain that is like no other. Unless you are a part of this fraternity of parents, my belief is you are not allowed to even comment on the erratic behavior that may result. What is the proper way to act? Are you supposed to give up? Are you supposed to be civil when it appears that you are not getting the proper help. 
I hardly doubt it. You do whatever it takes to get you child back.
Robert Buran is just one example of the perseverance of a father’s love for his son and the unwillingness to give up. He faced many obstacles a long the way. Bad tips, poor information and restrictions within the Amber Alert system.
That being said, he never gave up. The following was an email that Erik’s daddy provided. Everyone following missing person’s cases needs to read from the mouth of one who has experienced it first hand. How would you react? All I know is that in whatever way we could we are glad to have helped Robert and get his story out there. We are also glad to have been introduced to Kelly Jolkowski at Project Jason who does a tremendous job on giving “Voice for the Missing”.
Erik Has Come Home
by Daddy
Erik and I came home about 11:00 AM December 3, Erik’s fifth birthday. After three days Erik now seems to me the same boy that left me eight 
months ago.
Erik evidences some signs of emotional difficulties from his ordeal, but I think they are temporary. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCME) is providing some counseling.
Erik complained of excessive spankings, but his body is free of bruises, cuts or abrasions. He appears a little thin and I weighed and measured him today and his statistics are unchanged from eight months ago. In the fourth year of his life Erik did not grow or gain weight.
His vocabulary is sprinkled with sub Standard English phrases like “don’t got”, “ain’t” and “how come?” but he is responding to father’s gentle corrections. His cognitive reasoning does seem improved. Some may be interested in some details so I enclose the following based on interviews of several people. This is the chronology:
April 25, 2005: Steven Streight, 53, and Karen O’Grady 50, abandon the Fernley Nevada home being paid for by Karen’s husband by a marriage subsequently annulled for fraud. They take with them my son, age 4, and travel in an unregistered small 1979 motor home painted white with bright blue stripes. For eight months their whereabouts would remain unknown.
The couple head south on Nevada Highway 95 and arrive in three days in Alamogordo, New Mexico. In the heat of the summer they initially move into free campgrounds at altitude in the Lincoln National forest. Steven Streight works sporadically at roofing jobs and general labor. He insists he be paid in cash only and he is fired several times.
By mid summer they move to Albuquerque and do most of their camping in Wall Mart parking lots with access to cheap food and restroom facilities.
Erik is told his real father is Steven Streight and is instructed to call him “Daddy”. Erik complies. He is told I am in Chicago and do not give a damn.
The investigation is plagued by lack of tips and poor information. A PI gets excited about phone calls from Karen’s parent’s home to a wealthy bay area engineer. The calls turn out to be Karen’s sister calling her boyfriend. O’Grady’s family tells investigators that the couple is in New Mexico and Streight’s family tell them they are in Texas. Much of the investigation is focused on Texas. I also provide bad tips to investigators and based on one of these detectives from the San Diego Police Department are dispatched to San Felipe, Mexico, a place the abductors never went.
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An Amber Alert issued for Teketria Buggs, 12, Sunday and remained in effect in 
southeast Texas. She was last seen asleep on her couch at her home in the 9000 block of Johnson Road in Orchard late Friday night.
Teketria known by friends as Teeky Bugg, was last seen asleep on a couch at her home in the 9000 block of Johnson Road in Orchard late Friday night. She was reported missing at about 10 a.m. Saturday. None of her belongings, including a jacket, had been taken from the home.
On Monday night, Teketria’s mother told CNN’s Nancy Grace that she thinks someone Teketria trusted might have taken her.
Texas EquuSearch and the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Department widened their search Tuesday morning near Teketria’s rural home and asked for help from the Texas Department of Transportation.
“They are going to help us, being guides. They know the ditches, and the bridges and the culverts,” EquuSearch founder Tim Miller told KPRC Local 2.
Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch also went on to describe the many search methods that they would have at their disposal to search for Teketria Buggs. 
Dive teams searched the Brazos river Tuesday afternoon. Miller said divers are searching several areas of the water where sonar equipment detected something. Miller said searchers would use remote control airplanes, high-vision scopes, 4-wheelers and Sonar to search more than 12 acres of heavily wooded land and the Brazos River near her home.
“I don’t see where there is to go. We understand she’s scared to death of the dog. She won’t even go to her aunt’s house, which is right next door, when it was dark. So for her to take off and go to some place on her own, I think that’s out of the question,” EquuSearch founder Tim Miller told KPRC Local 2.
Description: Teketria is a black female, about 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 95 pounds. She has black hair, brown eyes, and light brown skin. She was last seen wearing a red and white long-sleeved pullover shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes.
Anyone with information should call the Fort Bend County Sheriff?s Office at (281) 341-4665 or Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at (281) 342-TIPS.
Fort Bend Herald: Search for missing girl expands
The search for 12-year-old Teketria Buggs, who disappeared in Orchard Saturday evening, continued Tuesday morning with additional personnel joining the search.
A prayer vigil for Buggs will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at of the Pilgrim Journey Baptist Church, 2022 Ransom Road in Richmond, where Buggs is a member. Deacon Robert Willis will conduct the service, which is open to the public.
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The search for a missing Fort Bend County girl moved to the water Tuesday as dive teams went in into the Brazos River.
Tuesday was an especially emotional day for the searchers and volunteers.
Although the town of Orchard has a population of only 400, they have big hearts. Letters from the girl’s schoolmates, thanking searchers for their efforts, inspired investigators and searchers.
Several veteran deputies wiped away tears as they read the letters posted on the board by volunteers.
Searchers continued to search on land and in the water.
Investigators said they didn’t have any new leads, but divers were concentrating on one area of the river. They said sonar had picked up some images Monday.
The river is about a mile from Buggs’ home, where she was last seen sleeping on her couch.
“It’s been successful in the past. We’ve done many, many dives where it ended up that it was an old barrel or something like that,” said Tim Miller of EquuSearch.
Volunteers came back again to continue the ground search on horseback and four-wheelers.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:58pm
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An Amber Alert has been issued for Teketria Buggs. She was last seen on Saturday sleeping on a couch inside her home.
Authorities say they’ve found no signs of struggle, no signs of foul play and no indication that a crime occurred. But maybe the most disturbing thing is that they’ve found no sign of this missing girl.
Search crews lowered an infrared underwater camera into the Brazos River in the hope of finding anything that might lead to Teketria.
“For her just to get up and put on her shoes, that’s impossible for me to believe,” said Laronald Foy, Teketria’s mother. “God himself would have to come and tell me that.”
Authorities are searching the 12 acres surrounding the home, as are volunteers from Equusearch. Director Tim Miller is not optimistic about finding the 12-year-old alive.
“There are a lot of things we don’t like about this one,” Miller admitted. “It just doesn’t feel good.”
If you have any information on the whereabouts of Teketria Buggs, please call Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:15pm
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Amber Alert Canceled for Patricia Lynn Visco by New York State Police as she was found alive and okay, at about 1:50 Friday morning near Syracuse.
Geneva Police tell NewsChannel 9 that Visco was found alive and okay, at about 1:50 Friday morning near Syracuse. The Onondaga County 911 Center says the girl was found at the Knight’s Inn in Liverpool, just west of the city. Authorities are not saying how Visco got to Liverpool or why she was there. They are also not saying if there are any arrests pending in the case.
With this discovery, the Amber Alert has been canceled. Stay tuned to NewsChannel 9, Newsradio 570 WSYR and 9wsyr.com for more updates as we learn the details.
The Geneva Police Department has issued an Amber Alert Thursday for a missing teenager.
December 3rd, 2005 at 08:41pm
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