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Authorities are calling off their search for the missing Ft. Bend County girl, 12-year-old Teketria Buggs . They’ve been looking for the 12-year-old Teketria Buggs of Orchard, who was last seen late Friday night.
A dive team with the Texas Department of Public Safety spent much of Friday in the water of the Brazos River — one of two locations where cadaver dogs picked up some sort of scent earlier this week.
“You will probably find something,” said Ft. Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright. “It won’t necessarily be a human body, but there will be something there.”
But on Friday, they didn’t find anything. Teketria was last seen alive a week ago Friday just a few miles from the river in a home in Orchard. She left behind her cell phone and purse.
With no new leads authorities stated that they will not be able to use their resources to search for Teketria.
So with no new leads, Sheriff Wright says his deputies will no longer be used in the physical search for Teketria. That will be left now to Equusearch and its volunteers.
“Basically, our backs are up against the wall,” said Darryl Phillips with Equusearch.
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If you’ve seen Teketria Buggs, call the Ft. Bend County Sheriff’s Department at 281-341-4665.
Sheriff’s detectives are still working this missing persons case. If you have any information that might help them, please call Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS.
December 9th, 2005 at 10:43pm
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According to reports from KOIN, a boat has been seized in the search for the disappearance of the missing 10 year old girl, Adre-Anna Jackson. 
An FBI dive team with sonar has been searching nearby American Lake. Thursday, police seized a small boat with an outboard motor that was found on the other side of the lake.
Farrar said it may not be related, but investigators are looking at everything. They’re also checking a trash bin for possible evidence.
A small 15-foot boat with an outboard motor is being investigated by police. The small boat was tied up across the lake at Northlake Park at a public pier for the past few days. No one has come to claim it. Police are being cautious in calling this a break in the case, a case that has had few leads.
Investigators in the disappearance of 10-year-old Adre’Anna Jackson are 
taking a hard look at a small boat found tied up Friday morning across American Lake from her home.
Police are not calling it a break in the case, just something they’re going to look into as part of their investigation. The small 15-foot boat with an outboard motor was found across the lake at Northlake Park and had been tied up to the public pier for at least a few days — and no one had come to claim it. Police didn’t find anything obvious with the boat, but they took it into custody to investigate just in case.
Police believe the boat came from a nearby community boathouse.
(Full KOMO news article)
Adre-Anna Jackson
Height: Just under 5 feet – Weight: 78 pounds
Hair: Brown, with reddish highlights
Wearing: Blue jeans, white tennis shoes and possibly a blue shirt and a puffy black jacket
Carrying: A black-and-pink backpack
Reward for information:
Crime Stoppers of Tacoma-Pierce County offers a $1,000 reward for information leading to Adre-Anna Jackson’s return. People with information about the case are asked to call 253-591-5959.
December 9th, 2005 at 08:14pm
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A missing Orchard girl’s stepfather, Steve Carrington, who is a person of interest in her disappearance, has been arrested on an unrelated charge according to the Fort Bend County sheriff.
Authorities have not said when Teketria Buggs’ stepfather, Steve Carrington, was taken into custody on an unrelated family violence charge, but said he has not admitted to committing any crime.
Carrington was arrested on failure to appear in court on domestic violence charges.
Once again another case of a person of interest being arrested on an unrelated charge.
Missing Girl’s Stepfather Linked To Another Disappearance
At a news conference Thursday, authorities said Teketria’s stepfather, Steve Carrington, is the only suspect in her disappearance.
“He continues to agree to speak with investigators, however, he has not been forthcoming with facts,” Brady said.
Carrington was arrested on an unrelated domestic violence charge. However, authorities said he has been a person of interest in the case all along.
Carrington has taken a lie-detector test, but Fort Bend County authorities have not yet released the results.
Investigators believe Carrington might have been the last person to see Teketria before she vanished.
It seems that during the investigation authorities have discovered some leads and one bizarre similarity.
We have reason to believe that a vehicle left that residence around 2 a.m. in order to go purchase a small quantity of gasoline,” Brady said.
Coincidence or repeat offense, you make the call. No matter how one looks at it, it can’t be good.
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December 9th, 2005 at 03:12am
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While the FBI returned to a Pierce County Lake Thursday to resume their search for 10-year-old Adre-Anna Jackson, missing since last Friday; Police are talking to Adre-Anna Jackson’s stepfather, who was the last person to see her.
Police are talking to Adre-Anna Jackson’s stepfather, who was the last person to see her, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.
Jon Federici said he last saw her on Friday, as she was walking from their apartment in Lakewood to school.
Police are not calling Federici a suspect; however they are not revealing much about what he’s told them. Its appears that Federici was arrested in 2002 and charged with third-degree assault for allegedly punching Jackson.
Federici was arrested in 2002 and charged with third-degree assault for allegedly punching Jackson and pulling her hair during an argument. Jackson reported Federici “smacked her in the head and scratched her face,” according to court documents. He was convicted on a reduced charge of misdemeanor assault.
Police are not calling Federici a suspect, and they’re not revealing much about 
what he’s told them.
“I’m not going to get into any of that at this point. I don’t want to compromise the investigation,” said Lakewood Police Lt. Brett Farrar. “All I can say is we’re looking at anybody and everybody that’s had anything to do with this little girl.”
According to reports, detectives are also speaking with the 51 registered sex offenders who live within walking distance of Adre-Anna Jackson’s home.
Seattle Times: Search for missing Pierce County girl goes national
Lakewood Police Lt. Bret Farrar said police searching for Adre-Anna Jackson have enlisted the help of The National Center of Missing and Exploited Children and television’s “America’s Most Wanted.” Information on the girl, who has been missing since Friday, is available on the Web sites for the center (www.missingkids.com) and the show (www.amw.com).
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Description of Adre-Anna Jackson
Sex: Female
Race: White
Age at Disappearance: 10
Height: 4’10″-5′ Weight: 78 lbs.
Hair: (Color, Description, Facial Hair) Brown, Has reddish highlights.
Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown
December 9th, 2005 at 02:42am
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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.
Search for missing girl focused on Brazos River
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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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NANCY GRACE: 12-Year-Old Missing, Teketria Buggs
(Guests: LARONALD FOY, TERRIANN COLSON, FORT BEND SHERIFF`S DPT, TIM MILLER, TEXAS EQUUSEARCH, ROBI LUDWIG, PSYCHOTHERAPIST
December 5, 2005
Nancy Grace interview’s LARONALD FOY, the mom of the missing 12 year old, Teketria Buggs. In an emotional interview Teke’s mom pleas for th safe return of her daughter.
FOY: No, she`s in the 3rd grade because she missed too many days out of school last year. So she`s in the 3rd grade, but she`s a smart girl. Last year, she passed the highest in her school (INAUDIBLE) She`s really, really bright. She`s a really bright girl, really, really bright. And I just can`t see somebody coming in my grandmother`s home and taking her and her not trying to put up a fight or anything. She`s too bright. I just feel like if she had time to put on her shoes, whoever she left with, she trusted him. She knew (INAUDIBLE) her heart.
And all I`m asking is, if you have her, please bring her back to me! I can`t make it without her! Please bring her back to me, please!
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But first, tonight, please help us. We are searching for a 12-year- old missing Texas girl. She disappeared from her own home, Orchard, Texas, Friday, last seen sleeping on her own sofa.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
LARONALD FOY, MISSING GIRL`S MOTHER: She (INAUDIBLE) to go to her aunt`s house right here without her sisters and her brothers. So for her just to get up and put on her shoes, that`s impossible for me to believe. God himself would have to come and tell me that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Very quickly, I want to go straight out to the news director with KFNC, Laurie Kendrick. Laurie, bring us up to date.
LAURIE KENDRICK, KFNC NEWS DIRECTOR: Hi, Nancy. How`re you doing? Well, the Amber Alert has been issued for Teketria Buggs. She`s age 12, as you mentioned, last sleeping on the couch in her living room in the small rural community of Orchard in Fort Bend County, maybe about 30 miles southwest, due southwest of Houston proper. Her family issued — or reported her missing around 10:00 AM Saturday morning.
And what has authorities so baffled, Nancy, is what they`re not seeing. They found no signs of struggle, no signs of foul play. And what`s more disconcerting is they have absolutely no indication that a crime occurred, and they can`t find this 12-year-old child to save their lives, despite the fact we have quite a few experienced searchers checking about a 12-mile area not far from the community of Orchard. The land was adjacent to the Brazos River. It`s a very woody are. But so far, absolutely nothing, and that is perhaps the most disconcerting sign about this entire event.
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December 6th, 2005 at 09:03pm
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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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Adre-Anna Jackson disappeared Friday after she left her apartment to walk to school.
Police state that they called off the search on Saturday, even though her location was still unknown.
Lakewood Police on Saturday called off their search for a 10-year-old girl missing since Friday, even though her location was still unknown.
Adre-Anna Jackson disappeared Friday after she left her apartment for a five-minute walk to Tillicum Elementary. Her family said they didn’t realize she was missing until late Friday afternoon because they didn’t know the school was closed because of snow.
On Saturday, Lakewood Police searched the girl’s apartment, as well as nearby American Lake for clues to Adre-Anna’s disappearance.
“We haven’t given up hope,” Hall told The News Tribune Saturday night. “But we have searched all logical and available places where this young girl could have gone. “Right now we don’t have a whole lot,” Hall said. “But we’re going to continue interviewing and re-interviewing people to make sure we don’t miss anything.”
Adre-Anna’s disappearance is being treated as a missing person’s investigation
Her mother said the fourth grader was carrying a black and pink backpack. She was wearing blue jeans, possibly a blue shirt and white tennis shoes. She’s just under 5 feet tall and weighs approximately 78 pounds. She has brown hair with reddish highlights. She may have been wearing a puffy black coat or jacket.
The News Tribune: Police halt search for Tillicum girl 
The girl, described as artistic and well-spoken, disappeared Friday after she left her apartment to walk to Tillicum Elementary a few blocks from her home. But due to the snow, the school had closed that day. Family members said they didn’t realize the girl was missing until late Friday afternoon. They called the police.
The fourth-grader was last seen walking from her family’s apartment off Wads-worth Street Southwest toward Tillicum Elementary, about a five-minute stroll away. Standing outside the police command center in the Tillicum Elementary parking lot Saturday, Hall said there’s been no indication yet that Adre-Anna had been a victim of violence or been snatched by a stranger.
Police, family and rescue workers have “knocked on almost every door in Tillicum,” as well as searched the nearby American Lake and parks. Some even crossed Interstate 5 on the neighborhood’s eastern border to look in that area. Still, no sign of the girl.
Bloodhounds were brought in to find the girl’s scent, but didn’t find a trail, while divers searched American Lake without finding any clues.
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December 4th, 2005 at 07:25pm
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Just some amazing news for Robert Buran. Erik Buran has been found. 
From Bring Erik Home
I told friends we must find him by Christmas or we must stop Christmas.
Detective Cherie Rye called an hour ago while I was sleeping.
Erik is OK and has been taken into protective custody and LE is going to contact me immediately to arrange return to Reno.
A tremendous job an effort put in by Kelly Jolkowski of Project Jason.
Read the following and many of the other cases she is following. What a fantastic job and joyous occasion.
What a Christmas gift that will never be forgotten.
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November 29th, 2005 at 09:40pm
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Diana Gama, 12, a brown-eyed girl with long, black hair parted down the middle, left her family’s Valencia Avenue apartment Wednesday morning on her way to nearby Nicholas Junior High School.
She never arrived.
Hermilo Ocampo Morales, 34, a heavyset man with dark brown eyes and a pencil-thin mustache framing the curve of his upper lip, lived with Salmeron and her extended family for two years.
He left this month, under circumstances that now make Salmeron touch her forehead to the faded oilcloth covering her dining room table and sob with fear.
“I’m terrified of what he may do to her,” she said. “He is not a good man.”
Fullerton police said anyone with information should call (714) 738-6715
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November 29th, 2005 at 09:05pm
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