Posted on 12/14/2003 6:57:56 PM PST by CoolGuyVic
Police find body that could be missing teen
By: JASON REEVES , Staff Writer 12/13/2003
CHESTERFIELD - The search for Marquis Anton Jobes, the 13-year-old boy missing since the October murder of his mother, may have come to a tragic conclusion. Authorities recovered the body of an unidentified juvenile yesterday in Richmond that they believe could be the missing child. The remains were located during the early morning hours in a wooded area behind the Kmart at 6807 Midlothian Turnpike, police said.
No cause of death was released by police and few details of the find were made public. Authorities expect it to be several days before a positive identity on the body is confirmed.
The morbid discovery was the latest in a chain of fatal incidents linked to Jobes' disappearance.
His mother, 32-year-old Tasha Robinson, was found shot to death Oct. 25 in her Bur Oak Lane home, located in the Brentwood community just north of Iron Bridge Park.
Police located the victim's youngest child, a 22-month-old left in its crib, but missing were Jobes and Robinson's live-in-boyfriend, Anthony Novedo Rankine.
Rankine, 29, was not called a suspect in the slaying, but did have suspected ties to international narcotics trafficking and organized crime in Jamaica. Seven men linked to the same crime organization, including two illegal aliens, were arrested on drug charges in Richmond on Oct. 30, five days after his disappearance, police said.
Authorities seized large amounts of marijuana, weapons and three vehicle during the arrests, and also found $60,000 in the residence once shared by Rankine and Robinson.
Then Rankine turned up dead.
His remains were found Nov. 5 in Richmond inside a white van parked on a Department of Motor Vehicles lot. Authorities released few details about the death.
Police had pursued Rankine in relation to the still missing Jobes - an Amber Alert had been issued for the teen - and on warrants for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, drug distribution, conspiracy and immigration violations.
A multi-agency task force continues to investigate the case, including Chesterfield, Henrico and Richmond police, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the FBI.
Makes me think of - for some reason - 'Jonathan Luna' - a really horriffic case and one I have not heard about much lately.
I agree; though too often, 'children' get less, much less, more, or even equal consideration as victims.
And while there is not a 'victim parity' as such; feel those who would make victims of animals; are just as evil in their ignorance. . .
And without trying to be too morbid; crimes like the recent case of 'Mother and boyfriend' pushing car into lake with her three children in it; surely deserve a horrific retribution; but, of course, it won't happen.
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