Name: Police will treat case of missing NC 6-year-old as an abduction
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Description: Jacksonville Chief of Police Mike Yaniero held a news conference Friday to provide an update on the search for a missing 6-year-old boy.

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Jacksonville Chief of Police Mike Yaniero held a news conference Friday to provide an update on the search for a missing 6-year-old boy. 

<p>in the trailer park. We've been searching for about Since, since about 6:00 last night. We're continuing to do that. But I think it's important that if anybody in the community has seen or heard anything about about Gabriel, that they give us a call as soon as possible, They can call us on the crime stoppers line or they can call the police department at 910 455 4000. I want to take an opportunity to thank our partners, our partners with the FBI. We're partnering with them to resolve this issue and hopefully find Gabriel soon. But we have a number of other partners that we're working with. North Carolina highway Patrol, North Carolina Emergency Management, North Carolina Marine Fisheries, north Carolina probation and parole, the Anzio County Sheriff's Department, N. C. I. S. The Military Police, the Red Cross, numerous volunteer fire departments Danso County Emergency Management. Um, and so our goal obviously is to continue the search and we'll be widening widening our search pattern um, probably later this afternoon to make sure that we've searched every bit of this area in order to resolve the issue. So now, um, I'd like to give our partners with the FBI an opportunity to say a few words. Special Agent. Thank you. Good morning. My name is bobby Wells and the Special agent in charge of the FBI based out of charlotte. Very much appreciate the partnership with the Chief in the Jackson Police Department and our role is to support them and doing whatever we possibly can to bring Gabriel home as soon as possible. We're providing resources. We have agents, analysts who specialize in missing Children cases that they are working on this and we're going to continue to help with search is conducting interviews and work with all the agencies, federal, state and local partners with a common goal bringing Gabriel home as soon as we possibly can. Just to clarify is that Gabriel or mari Mario is his first name, Gabriel, his second name. He goes by mari and Gabriel. And what what methods of search are you using? I saw you know state Highway patrol in the helicopter and well we have had we have, we had clears the Marine Corps generously provided a helicopter with a clear last night. So we were able to to search the area using helicopter last night and some drones to search those. And we have north Carolina's emergency management with in partnership with the fire departments who are providing some of the search and rescue efforts. Um some of the what the, the search in the wooded areas And then we have probably at least 50-60 law enforcement officers from a number of different agencies that are canvassing the neighborhood going door to door. Um our goal is to bring Gabriel back safe. No, that was the north Carolina Highway Patrol's helicopter and another question that I wanted to ask you is there. I see, I saw a lot of different agencies from from neighboring counties and some is almost almost as far down to the border search and rescue. How did the conversation go as far as getting help from the other agents. Actually, that's one of our partners, our local Emergency Management, Onslow County reached out to north Carolina Emergency management and they were able to provide those resources uh, from those teams. So those teams are made up of a a number of different volunteer and rescue organizations and so they're providing those services for us. Another question I wanted to ask you, um, there was a there was a nice lady that came here earlier. She was offering her volunteer help. She was just a resident of the area. Are residents able to help at this point because I believe she was told at the moment in time that that they were encouraging residents to hold off from doing assistance in the search efforts. So one of the things that that I would encourage somebody if they want to help is to call on zero County Emergency Management, they'll take their name and number. And then when when they have enough volunteers to organize them, they'll they'll call them back. Is this still just a missing Children or missing persons case as of right now. Is there any other information that may give an indication to take in any other direction or? Well, I mean, this is an ongoing investigation. We've been at it for a little bit over 12, 14 hours now and so we'll continue to treat it as a as a suspicious incident. But we have no we have no evidence to think that it's ah we have no evidence at this time. But again we're going to treat it as a as a possible abduction just because we don't know what happened. Could you recap for me just one more time when the last time was that Mario was seen? It was about 1745 or 5:45 yesterday afternoon. Did he go to school that day? He did go to school that day. I believe he goes to Hunter's Creek who was the last person to see him? The bus driver. Now we we've we've been interviewing witnesses all night. So so we have several witnesses that saw him later after he got off the bus. So he resided here at Holiday city. Yes he resided holiday city. Do you know you stayed with her? Um He stayed with his parents. So I saw that J. P. D. Was set in the perimeter. How far out is that perimeter Right right now that the perimeter is in the trailer park and we've been uh stopping cars going in and out. And the reason we've been doing that is is to determine uh is to educate the people in the trailer park and hopefully locate him chief at this point you both might want to talk to this. What do you want people to do in terms of their awareness and their reporting. I think right now you're looking for any tip you can get to try to find it and I think that's the most important thing. Somebody, somebody in this community has seen something That is very important to us and we need to know that. So dialing 455-4000 and giving us that information so we can follow up on it right away is probably the most important thing that community members can do. We do appreciate their help asking to search but talking to your neighbors, talking to your family members and asking them have they seen Gabriel and letting us know what they've seen and letting us follow up on those things in order for us to bring him home safely. Every every tip is very important. So I would encourage the public if you see something, call it in because we're going to follow up on every single day that we received no matter what do you need to think like a six year old at this point when you're thinking about that where you might go what you might do around your own property. Do you know areas that Children might hang out here, forts in the woods, those kind of things. But I also think that you can do that. But if if you have, if you live in this area, if you live in the bren mar area or the Midway park area that and you have an old shed or you have ah home that's empty. Is to check those places to make sure that that he's not hiding because he is a six year old and sometimes they wander off and it gets dark early this time of year and he might have got confused and hopefully he found shelter last night and he may still be there. So we're asking folks in the community, check your backyard, check your sheds, check your garages, ah make sure he's not at your home. And if if you have anything that's that that you think that could be helpful, please give us a call. Anything else you'd like to add? No, that's all. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you sir. And it was trying to come get those. I don't haven't had one in a number of that's you. Okay? We got one more of this. I really appreciate into the child. I think it's related giving us those tips. Three, that's for sure. Oh yes. And</p>

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