Thursday, March 28

Police mystery: Hispanic mother’s child turns 12 missing in New York



Exactly twelve years ago, on January 22, 2010, the boy Patrick Alford was last seen in public.

At that time I was 7 years old. Patrick Alford He went out to throw out the trash and was never seen again.” New York Police Department Missing Persons Detective Leiddy Zuber said in a video produced last November, on what was supposed to be her 19th birthday.

Alford disappeared into the 46-building Starrett City housing development in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn. The adoptive mother, Librada Morán, said then that Patrick was having trouble adjusting to foster care.

Moran told investigators that Patrick was by her side when she took out the trash on the 11th floor of the 130 Vandalia Avenue building and that after briefly turning her head, the boy had disappeared.

The boy had been turned over to child services after his biological mother, Jennifer Rodriguez, was arrested for shoplifting and admitted to using drugs. Patrick was initially thought to have fled in search of his mother. Before the arrest, they lived on Staten Island.

The boy had reportedly threatened to run away so he could be reunited with his mother. Police dogs traced his scent to a bus stop not far from the towers, but he was never found.

Ray Kelly, New York police commissioner at the time Patrick disappeared, recounted that 14,000 interviews were conducted in the case, 9,000 apartments were searched, nearby streams and other bodies of water were dredged. At least one researcher said that the child may have been removed from the US.

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Two years after the disappearance his eponymous father, Patrick Alford, was shot in the head during a robbery in East New York. He was left partially paralyzed and living in a nursing home in the Bronx. In 2014, he said he believed the thieves thought he was hiding tens of thousands of dollars in bounties for the boy in his home.

The authorities questioned local relatives and also in Maryland y Florida, but they did not solve the case. Police said they received a last tip in 2014 but declined to provide details.

In January 2019, a reward of $12,000 for valid clues was announced. A group offers $250,000 dollars, In the portal FindPatrickAlford.com. In recent years, a $6 million trust was established for the then-missing child, after your family will win a federal lawsuit against the city and a foster care agency, narrowed Pix11.

Anyone with information should call. at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.


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