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Amber Alert for missing 12-year-old Florida girl
« on: Apr 27^th, 2005, 7:22pm »

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Amber Alert for missing 12-year-old Florida girl
Police: Brothers left her with man they just met while they got liquor
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Posted: 7:43 AM EDT (1143 GMT)

(CNN) -- Police in Bradenton, Florida, have issued an Amber Alert for a missing 12-year-old girl who was last seen Monday.

The girl, Margarita Aguilar-Lopez, was staying in a Bradenton motel with her two older brothers. The two brothers, both in their 20s, said they last saw her about 7:30 p.m. Monday, when they left Margarita and two younger girls in the care of Antonio Paulino-Perez -- whom they had just met -- while they went to buy liquor, said Bradenton police Maj. J.J. Lewis.

When the brothers returned about 30 minutes later, Margarita was missing and the two younger girls were alone, police said. Lewis said they were unharmed.

About two hours later, police arrived at the motel to investigate a complaint against one of the brothers, according to the Amber Alert text. The complaint was related to the brothers' drinking, Lewis said.

The brothers initially didn't mention to police that their sister was missing. One of them later told police he and his brother were "too intoxicated and could not remember," police said.

All involved in the case are undocumented immigrants, Lewis said. "They live in a transient lifestyle. ... They work at local farms, cutting vegetables." Their parents are in Mexico, he said.

Paulino-Perez, 25, was last known to be living at a migrant farm in Ruskin, Florida, and was last seen driving a mid-1990s red Ford Aerostar minivan, possibly with a Florida tag, police said.

Police said Margarita is 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 65 pounds. She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue pants.

Authorities are working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the FBI and Mexican police to obtain information on Paulino-Perez.

It's the third missing child report in two weeks in Manatee County, Florida.

Bradenton police asked people with information in the case to call 1-941-932-9300.

CNN's Patrick Oppmann contributed to this report.

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Re: Amber Alert for missing 12-year-old Florida gi
« Reply #1 on: Apr 27^th, 2005, 9:26pm »

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All I can think of is here we go again, another poor girl suffering needlessly in this area of Florida!

Tonight they found her safe in North Carolina, according to our local news at 11.

Thank God! Cool

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« Reply #2 on: Apr 28^th, 2005, 3:42pm »

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Woot! That is good news indeed...

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Missing girl found alive in South Carolina
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Margarita Aguilar-Lopez will be flown home Thursday.

Margarita Aguilar-Lopez, who had been missing since Monday and thought to be in danger, was found alive and well in South Carolina Wednesday evening.

Bradenton Police Chief Michael Radzilowski announced the finding of the girl.

"It was a total team effort to make this come to a good and outstanding and happy success for us," Radzilowski said. "We're happy that we've recovered her alive and well."

Aguilar-Lopez was found about 8:33 p.m. Wednesday in a Wal-Mart about 10 miles from Greenville, South Carolina.

Radzilowski said he doesn't yet know if Aguilar-Lopez's disappearance was an abduction. He said the FBI would interview Aguilar-Lopez to attempt to find out if she went willingly or was abducted.

Antonio Paulino-Perez, 25, the man who allegedly took Aguilar-Lopez, has been arrested and faces third-degree felony charges of interfering with a parent's custodial rights.

Radzilowski said Aguilar-Lopez will probably be flown back to Bradenton tomorrow.

"Apparently she's a little upset from what I understand," Radzilowski said. "But she's alive and well."

Radzilowski said he doesn't know if she is upset about being abducted or about being found.

Aguilar-Lopez and her younger niece and nephew were staying at the Classic Inn in Bradenton with her two older brothers, Francisco Aguilar and Rubino Aguilar. The two men are migrant workers and left the children with a coworker, Paulino-Perez, while they left the motel.

When they returned, Aguilar-Lopez and Paulino-Perez were gone.

Radzilowski said investigators received some misinformation while they searched for Aguilar-Lopez.

"We had to take everything the brothers said with a grain of salt because there was a lot of misinformation given to try to throw us off the track," he said.

A challenging investigation

Bradenton Police had been working around the clock in efforts to find Aguilar-Lopez. They concentrated their efforts on the I-10 Corridor and the eastern part of the U.S.

Bradenton Police used the Southwest Florida Child Abduction Response Team (CART) for the first time. It pools together resources from all over the country to help find missing children.

Police received about 70 leads in the case.

Language and cultural barriers made the case especially complicated. Aguilar-Lopez, her two brothers and Paulino-Perez speak Maxtico, a Spanish dialect unknown to most people in the U.S., including the detectives investigating the case.

Another complication was that the case involved illegal immigrants. Some of them may have had information about Aguilar-Lopez's whereabouts, but were fearful to come forward.

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