Posted on 09/23/2007 12:48:46 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Police Will Press Conference At 3:00 P.M. :
LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Denver police will hold a news conference at 3 p.m. Sunday to update their search for a missing 3-year-old girl. TheDenverChannel.com will stream the news conference live.
Denver police are searching for a 3-year-old girl whom they believed to be dead, stuffed in a large plastic bag and dumped somewhere in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
On Saturday, top law enforcement officials issued a disturbing plea for help from the public.
"It's pretty simple," said District Attorney Mitch Morrisey. "Walk out into your back yard, look through your Dumpsters, help us find this little girl. She's probably in a black plastic bag or white plastic bag."
The girl's mother, who had claimed on Friday that her little girl was snatched from her arms by two men while she was walking down an alley, is now being held on suspicion of being an accessory to murder.
"We've arrested the mother as an accomplice. We've also arrested the mother's boyfriend who we believe may have done something with this child," said Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson.
Miriam Gallegos, 20, was arrested Friday night.
Her boyfriend, Angel Ray Montoya, was taken into custody Friday evening after an all-night manhunt. He is being held for investigation of a first-degree murder charge.
Police said when they arrested him, he was carrying a duffle bag, but it was empty. Police suspect he put the girl's body in the bag after she was murdered and disposed of her somewhere in Capitol Hill neighborhood.
They said he also had a bus pass, so it is possible he took a bus or light rail somewhere to get rid of the body, police said.
"We need to re-create what these two did yesterday prior to the disappearance of the 3-year-old girl," said Police Chief Gerry Whitman.
Police are going through the Denver alleys and Dumpsters, searching for 3-year-old Niveah Gallegos. They have also asked the Denver Fire Department to search the Platte River between 6th Avenue and Interstate 70 for the girl's body.
On Saturday night, Whitman said officers are focusing the search between 6th and 20th Avenue from Downing to Speer.
Investigators have not said why they believe she is dead. The toddler was last seen with Montoya at an apartment on 12th Avenue and Logan Street -- an apartment that has since been sealed with crime scene tape.
Miriam Gallegos also faces a charge of filing a false report. At about 3 p.m. Friday , Gallegos told officers that she was taking Niveah to the hospital when two men she didn't know kidnapped the girl and drove off in a white vehicle. That prompted officers to issue an Amber Alert in search of the vehicle and the girl. But about an hour into the investigation, police canceled the alert and said that Niveah was the victim of foul play, but they wouldn't say what led them to believe that.
Niveah was last seen wearing a red, long-sleeve shirt with an elephant on the front, red sweat pants and pink princess shoes. She has straight brown hair, brown eyes, is about 3 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 45 pounds.
Montoya is a registered sex offender and has been convicted of child abuse and indecent exposure to minors and adults. He has also been arrested on charges of kidnapping, according to police records.
He was arrested at about 9 p.m. near Lincoln Street and 13th Avenue. Officer said they saw a man who looked like Montoya. When they confronted him, there was a brief scuffle and the man ran off. Police chased him, took him into custody and confirmed that it was Montoya.
Gallegos also has a criminal history. In 2006, she was accused of possession of marijuana and found guilty of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Anyone who has seen Niveah is asked to call 911, the Denver Police Department at 720-913-2000 or Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP (7867).
“We’ve also arrested the mother’s boyfriend who we believe may have done something with this child,” “
great.
Another stupid woman with a new boyfriend.
Child pays the price.
Prayers for the little girl. I hope that she’s found alive...and that her scumbag parents have a nice fatal accident.
Another perv that should have never been released, but at least his civil rights weren’t violated according to the ACLU.
Pathetic.
Proof that evil truly exists...
The girl’s mother said she was holding her 3-year-old daughter while walking down an alley. She said she was taking the girl to the hospital when two men drove up, grabbed the girl and drove off in a white four-door vehicle. She described one suspect as a tall man with red hair and a full red beard. He was wearing a green baseball cap, she said. She said the other man was also white.
She even said the vehicle was white. Her boyfriend just got out of jail for child sex abuse.
"Montoya is listed as a registered sex offender, although he was sentenced in Denver in 2003 to 60 days in jail for failing to register as one.
In 2005, he was arrested in Denver for child abuse and false imprisonment. He was found guilty of child abuse, and was initially given a suspended sentence, and ordered to undergo mental health counseling and 18 months of supervised probation.
But in January, 2007, the probation was revoked and he was sentenced to serve 270 days in jail. He would have been released from jail recently." http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/cda/article_print/0,1983,DRMN_15_5704228_ARTICLE-DETAIL-PRINT,00.html
Crackhead Tawana Brawley excuse.
She spelled "Nevaeh" wrong.
Illegals?
Maybe she meant Nivea.
One couldn’t be surprised at anything with a person like this ...
However, “Nevaeh,” “heaven” spelled backward, is a very trendy name. Unfortunately, it often turns up in news reports about children who suffer much worse than a stupid name.
That’s why Nivea occured to me. Names like those handicap the kid right off the bat. And sadly, Nevaeh, is often beyond the parents’ intellect.
It looks like the mother was 16 or so when poor Niveah was born, with some unknown father. Even without a bad name, she didn’t have much chance, poor thing.
when a woman welcomes a convicted child molester into her home she should automatically have her children taken from her.
John Mark Karr’s cute little honey should have lost custody of her daughter a long time ago.
And if the children are harmed - you are right - it’s high time the stupid women in these situations be held liable for the damage they are doing to these poor kids.
I think it was Dr. Laura who said the most dangerous person in a child’s life is mom’s boyfriend.
God bless you, Niveah.
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