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The Daily Sentinel Saturday, July 11, 1998 13A GJ cops Icc'Idng for pair Buy complete pair of glasses at regular price and get a second pair FREE, (some restrictions apply) from our special 7,30,1998 Eye Examination On Premises the optical center I Check our Quality, Selection Monday Friday 9 to 6 'FOR quality eyewear Prices before you buy Saturday 9 to 5 1316 North Avenue JC JLQ01 Se habla spa ho I Youre Invited to an evening of magical music delicious dinner and campy comedy! By DANA NUNN The Daily Sentinel Grand Junction police are looking for a woman and her boyfriend, who are accused of abducting her 7-year-old son. The case comes less than two weeks after a new Colorado law went into effect that mcreases the penalty for parental abduction if the parent takes the child out of the country. The new law has been dubbed Emilies Law because it was prompted by the abduction of Emilie Hardy Pearson, who was taken from Grand Junction by her noncustodial father, ReJean Hardy. It was almost three years after Hardy failed to return the then-3-year-old girl to her mother after a visitation before authorities located Hardy and Emilie in Guadalajara, Mexico. When Emilie was returned to her mother and stepfather, Joanne and Charlie Pearson, she no longer spoke English and had been framed to live the life of a fugitive, duckmg whenever she saw a policeman or when someone tried to take her picture.

Hardy was in a Mexican jail briefly but has never had to face charges in Colorado. The only crime he could have been charged with was violation of a custody order, a Class 5 border. Grand Junction police have no reason to believe at this tune that Cynthia LaVold, 32, and Shawn Johnson, 29, have left the U.S. with seven-year-old Stuart Wesley Shrum, LaVolds son, said Officer Shari Zen. Arrest warrants have been issued for both LaVold and Johnson for custody violation.

Police believe the couple may be either in the Carbon-dale area or in California, Zen said. Johnson is from Carbondale, she said. LaVold is allowed by the court to visit her son from Sunday to Monday evening each week. The boys father, Charlie Shrum, has custody of the boy. Police said Johnson called Charlie Shrum Monday evening and said he and LaVold wouldnt be returning the boy.

When Charlie Shrum went to 207 N. Ninth where Johnson and LaVold live, no one was there. The couple was last seen driving a 1978 Chinook motor home that is tan with brown stipes and has stickers from several different states on the rear. Anyone with information about the whereabouts of LaVold, Johnson or Stuart Shrum is asked to call the police department at 244-3554 or Crime Stoppers of Mesa County at 241-STOP. Newspaper Subscription Questions? CaU 242-1919 Outside Mesa County CaU 1-800-332-5833 Hit It PARKS: $11 million in federal funding at stake in dispute The case comes less than two weeks after a new Colorado law went into effect that increases the penalty for parental abduction if the parent takes the -child out of the country.

felony that carries a sentence of one to three years in prison, said Mesa i County District Attorney Frank Daniels. After the Emilie Hardy problems and the arrest of ReJean Hardy in Mexico, I started looking more seriously at the crime and the penalties it carried, Daniels said. The harm to Emilie and Joanne was enormous compared to the punishment. Daniels began lobbying state legislators to increase the penalty. On July 1, a new law went into effect that increases the crime of violation of custody to a Class 4 felony, which carries a sentence of two to six years prison, if the abducting parent takes the child across the U.S.

clearly made was none of the constituents that clearly care most about the issue were aware they were going to the federal level," Gansauer said. I can understand their frustration, they might have to come to a compromise to work this thing out, but to politicize this on the national level was not politically smart. Jerry Hart, director of the United Sportsmens Council, said the DNR went too far in asking for federal intervention. There is a national concern about this approach being taken, Hart said. Whats particularly disturbing is for the DNR and the governors office to take sides.

Sportsmen and the DOW could lose $11 million per year. Hart also said he was concerned that State Parks is building a $1.2 million visitor center at Steamboat Lake State Park, even though the audit already had pinpointed Steamboat as an area of concern. Both Parks and the DOW knew the audit was critical of such development, said Hart, yet the agencies allowed the construction to continue. They knew this kind of facility was part of the problems, said Hart I cannot believe how anyone could allow this to proceed. More than $4.55 million in development has been done at Steamboat Lake State Park since 1995, according to State Parks spokeswoman Marcia Simmons.

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