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Six-Year-Old Cole Puffinburger Found Alive
Las Vegas Now ^ | Updated: Oct 19, 2008

Posted on 10/19/2008 2:08:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Law enforcement officials are reporting that six-year-old Cole Puffinburger has been found alive and is safe in policy custody. The boy was found in the downtown Las Vegas area after being missing since Wednesday.

The boy was found near a bus stop near Oakey and 17th Street. He was found in good shape, but is being transported to UMC for a medical evaluation.

Earlier Saturday, Metro Police canceled an Amber Alert for the six-year-old. Metro held a news conference Saturday afternoon to update the case.

Metro Captain Vincent Cannito said police from several jurisdictions served search warrants in connection with the case. Cannito says large amounts of cash were been recovered at some of the search warrant locations.

Officers have taken a person of interest into custody and they're currently looking for another man, identified as Mexican national Jesus Gastelum. Police believe Gastelum is in Las Vegas or Southern California.

Police canceled the Amber Alert for Cole early Saturday after leads started drying up.

Officers in California found Cole's grandfather, 51-year-old Clemens Tinnemeyer, late Friday. Metro says Tinnemeyer was part of a methamphetamine ring with Mexican drug dealers and vanished with millions of dollars owed to them. Police say when the drug dealers couldn't find him, or the money, they took the boy as ransom.

Tinnemeyer is being interviewed by police.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: aliens; kidnapping; missing; puffinburger
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1 posted on 10/19/2008 2:08:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Wonderful, Mexican drug gangs are now exporting kidnapping, very popular in their country to ours. Celebrate Diversity.


2 posted on 10/19/2008 2:13:15 AM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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Hmm. Did the kidnappers just decide to give up the boy since the police found their target first? Or what?


3 posted on 10/19/2008 2:18:58 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: nickcarraway

Grampa was sleeping with wolves.

Folks lesson here is pretty dang clear.

If anyone you know that is kin/blood and they are living an uncivil lifestyle kick them out of your life.

Blood does not run thick if it is tainted.


4 posted on 10/19/2008 2:22:03 AM PDT by Global2010 (Pay off Ceasar and your debts. God will see us through. Blessings.)
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To: word_warrior_bob
Uh no.

I say SHAME on Grandpa who chose to cohort with Drug Lords.

How many drug Lords do you know?

I would guess 0.

That man put his family in harms way.

5 posted on 10/19/2008 2:25:57 AM PDT by Global2010 (Pay off Caesar and your debts. God will see us through. Blessings.)
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To: nickcarraway
policy custody

Smarter spell checking never seems to arrive. What would it take to have a small database of what two words commonly go together?

6 posted on 10/19/2008 2:39:43 AM PDT by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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To: nickcarraway

Thank God. This is far better news than I expected.


7 posted on 10/19/2008 3:17:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: Global2010

How many stories do you hear with the words “Mexican drug dealers” that have a happy ending? I don’t know how the grandfather could think that it would be a good idea to get involved with any drug dealers let alone some from Mexico.


8 posted on 10/19/2008 3:45:37 AM PDT by Boris99
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Thank God the boy is safe.

As for the grandfather: May he be parboiled alive slowly in hell, while his drug-lord cohorts watch. And may the grandfather's drug-lord cohorts be subjected to a very, very slow roasting alive on a spit while watching their stupid, worthless scum of an old man being parboiled.

And may their excruciating misery endure forever and ever. Amen.

9 posted on 10/19/2008 3:52:55 AM PDT by 60Gunner (ALL bleeding stops... eventually.)
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To: nickcarraway

Thanks the Lord!

Grandpa needs to be flogged in the public square!


10 posted on 10/19/2008 4:29:27 AM PDT by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging! ~ I am Joe!)
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The kid is lucky to be alive, knowing how violent Mexican drug gangs are.

How in the world could this drug-dealing family steal from drug dealers and not expect bad things for their themselves and their family. Idiots!

11 posted on 10/19/2008 4:41:23 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Praise God! This is GREAT news! I pray he wasn't physically harmed during this ordeal. Psychologically I'm sure he will need counseling though.
12 posted on 10/19/2008 5:22:30 AM PDT by proudofthesouth (Homosexuality IS a choice! There isn't any biological reason for it. They CHOOSE to be that way!)
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To: cripplecreek

Wonderful News


13 posted on 10/19/2008 5:31:07 AM PDT by Ladycalif (Free - Ramos and Compean)
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To: nickcarraway
Thank God!

Nothing more in the Vegas media yet.

14 posted on 10/19/2008 5:32:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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The kid is lucky to be alive, knowing how violent Mexican drug gangs are.

I can't help but think that Mexican drug gangs wouldn't be so bold if an organized police force were after them every time, such as was this case in Vegas.

15 posted on 10/19/2008 5:38:13 AM PDT by rabidralph (Yeah, she's all that.)
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The Mexican Drug dealers aren't stupid and my guess is that they realized that if anything happened to this child that the repercussions brought down on them would far exceed the lose of a few million dollars.

The only family member I have read about who was involved with the drug dealers was dear old grandpa, not the entire family. We don't know all the evidence yet though.

16 posted on 10/19/2008 5:41:20 AM PDT by BBell
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To: BradyLS

“or what”

I have a feeling a pretty penny was paid for the child.


17 posted on 10/19/2008 5:52:18 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Boris99
A few years ago here in our small town, a 20 yr old girl and her Mexican boyfriend went to New York to pick up 2 newly arrived Mexicans and some drugs. They shoved a bag of drugs up into the heater vent inside the car. When they got back here, they took the girl home to a trailer park. Sometime later they couldn't find their drugs so they decided she stole them. They went to her trailer where she was sleeping on the couch. One of the Mexicans held a gun on her friends and the other one poured gas on the sleeping girl and set her on fire. She ran out into the street burning alive, screaming for help but the neighbors were scared so no one would help her. Finally someone called 911. She died a few days later. The police confiscated the Mexicans car and when they did a search, they found the drugs still in the heater vent. They had gotten pushed high up in the vent where the thugs hadn't been able to reach them.

Mexican illegals are committing crimes like this even in small towns all over America. We have had so many people killed in car wrecks where an illegal driver was at fault. And my gosh, at the rapes and sexual molesting of children by illegals here is just staggering. It seems like there is 2 or 3 a week.

18 posted on 10/19/2008 6:07:24 AM PDT by beckysueb (Drill here! Drill now!)
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To: cripplecreek

Same here, cripplecreek. I didn’t think he would be found alive!


19 posted on 10/19/2008 6:20:02 AM PDT by jan in Colorado (For Barack Hussein Obama TRUTH FILE see my homepage!)
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To: nickcarraway

“Posing as Police”....

Exactly WHAT does that mean? Did they have uniforms?


20 posted on 10/19/2008 7:14:10 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (I'm with HUNTER.)
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