Active Amber Alert For North Carolina: SIRAJ MUNIR DAVENPORT
SIRAJ MUNIR DAVENPORT
Case Type: Non Family Abduction
DOB: Aug 23, 2004 Sex: Male
Missing Date: May 18, 2008 Race: Asian
Age Now: 3 Height: 3'0" (91 cm)
Missing City: SMITHFIELD Weight: 35 lbs (16 kg)
Missing State : NC Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United States Eye Color: Brown
Case Number: NCMC1096098
If you have information, call 911
Circumstances: Siraj was last seen on May 18, 2008 at the Brightleaf Flea Market on Brightleaf Boulevard in Smithfield, North Carolina. He was last seen wearing a light blue shirt with a yellow truck on the front, dark blue sweatpants and blue Adidas tennis shoes. Siraj also answers to the name Raji.
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holliston, check out this story for details if you can..
http://www.ncmec.org/missingkids/servlet/AmberExternalFCServlet?act=retAmberCase&amberId=6583
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3 year old missing from flea market?? Non Family Abuduction??
Was he snatched?? Did he maybe wonder off and get lost in the crowd??
Do you know anymore details?
Just seems odd that a stranger would snatch a child in such a crowded place and no one notice.
This was just yesterday, right?
I hope maybe he just wondered off, and has since been found, safe!
BTW...
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Search Continues for Missing Boy
From WRAL
Posted: May. 19, 2008 7:37 a.m.
Updated: May. 19, 2008 7:37 a.m.
An Amber Alert was issued Sunday afternoon after a child went missing from a Smithfield flea market.
Three-year-old Siraj Munir Davenport, also know as Roji, is approximately 3 feet tall and weighs 35 pounds. He has dark brown hair, and brown eyes.
He was wearing a light blue T-shirt with a yellow truck on the front, dark blue sweat pants and Adidas tennis shoes.
Roji was last seen Sunday at about 11 a.m. at the Brightleaf Flea Market on Highway 301 South in Smithfield. The boy's mother told police she was loading produce into the car when she looked down, the child was gone.
Police shut down the flea market after the boy was reported missing and searched customers cars.
Sheriff deputies later searched the Neuse River by boat for the boy, as well as conducted an extensive ground search. The ground search was called off at about 6 p.m. due to bad weather, but was expected to resume Monday morning.
Teachers from the boy's pre-school came together to also look for the boy. They said he is a well-behaved child and it is not like him to wander off.
“Roji is a happy, sweet polite, fun loving little boy. He had the cutest smile. He is unforgettable and that's why he's stuck in our hearts. That's why we're here wanting to help. He's a special little boy,” teacher Susan Barbour said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also assisting in the search.
If you have any information regarding the boy's whereabouts, call the Johnston County Emergency Services at 919-934-9411, or call 911 or *HP.
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POOR ANGEL....HOLLI PLEASE KEEP US UPDATED. HE AND HIS FAMILY ARE IN MY PRAYERS
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Flea Market Foul Play? N.C. Boy Missing
Amber Alert Continues for Child Who Disappeared as His Mother Loaded Groceries
By DAVID SCHOETZ
May 19, 2008—
An Amber Alert search for a 3-year-old boy who may have been abducted from a busy North Carolina flea market went into its second day today.
The Amber Alert was issued Sunday afternoon for Siraj Munir Davenport, who goes by the nickname "Raji," after his mother briefly turned her back on the boy and he disappeared.
"The mother was at the flea market with the child, was loading some stuff into her car, turned around and the child was gone," Steve Gillikin, a spokesman for the Smithfield Police Department, told ABC News as the second day of searching for the boy began.
Authorities in North Carolina say someone may have abducted the boy from the Brightleaf Flea Market some time after 10 a.m. Sunday. There is also a chance that he wandered away from the market which is flanked by a highway and a swift-moving river.
"At this point, there's nothing that would make us lean one way or another," Gillikin said. "We've had some witnesses who have stepped forward who think they saw something."
The boy was last seen by his mother, Rosnah Thomason, some time after 10 a.m., but searchers lost critical hours when the mother, who does not speak English, drove home to get someone to translate for her after searching the grounds herself.
The boy's mother and translator then went to the management at the flea market, who called the police. "There was about a two-hour delay from when the child went missing to when we were called," Gillikin said.
The Johnston County Sheriff's Office joined the search, offering a boat to motor down the nearby Neuse River looking for any sign of the boy. The river flanks the flea market area at the base of a steep embankment. Recent rainfall has produced a swift current, Gillikin said.
The flea market was closed early and customers' cars were searched as they left the lot, ABC News' Raleigh-Durham affiliate WTVD reported.
Conditions Sunday prevented authorities from conducting an aerial search, but Gillikin said that an aircraft would scour the area today for any sign of the boy. The FBI has also joined the search, he said.
Authorities will continue to sift through tips from witnesses, a time-consuming process that so far has not yielded any solid leads. "The good part is you get the calls. The bad part is that you've got to weed out the bad ones," Gillikin said.
The exact location of the boy's father is unknown, but he reportedly is travelling abroad on business. "They are still nailing down where he is," the police spokesman said.
Susie Barbour, who identified herself as the boy's preschool teacher, described the child as "very obedient."
"I couldn't imagine him wandering off," Barbour told WTVD. "He's a very mannerly child. If someone was to ask him to go help him do something or find something, he could have been swayed off."
Siraj Munir Davenport is a 3-foot-tall Asi
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God will find him and bring him home safe and soon! My prayers are with you Raji and your family.
Maureen
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AMEN!
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This boy was found safe today. Apparently it was a hoax by his mother. The details are sketchy, but they are considering pressing charges on the boys mother for filing a false police report. I live 45 minutes from there and cannot believe someone would "cry wolf" in something as serious as a stranger abduction.
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