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10 NEWS TULSA WORLD MONDAY JUNE 26 1995 Search for Missing Child Ends After Police Discover Hodx I 4 Tulsa Area Trivia an Motorola TVS 200 rtr SALE QUALITY NEED NOT COST MORE in QUALITY NEED NOT COST MORE UJ Ul rf By Brenda Kilby World Correspondent Motorola lip Phone NEC 120 UJ a LU a 5 a UJ UJ 2 30 The Associated Press contributed to this report MON RI 8:30 5:30 SAT 10 2 "Independently Owned and Operated" JUNE 30th noon Saturday when shown an BI sketch of the suspect ed abductor of Morgan Nick Har vey said the sketch looked identi cal to the man who tried to steal his truck Harvey told police the man was last seen going across a field dragging a young girl with blond hair by the arm Before law enforcement real ized story was false however a huge search for the man and child began utilizing all available police units A 6 square mile area south of Stuttgart was blocked off and police used prison dogs and helicopters from the Na tional Guard as well as regular aircraft to search the area At one point infrared light was used to search the thick under brush and thickets surrounding rice cotton fields and bayous in this southeastern Arkansas com REE CELLULAR PHONES ree Activation ree irst Incoming Calls 4f iqo arf vurlt blj 5345 EAST 41 ST ST ANNEX MALL 622 7735 CALL TOLL REE 1 800 285 7735 CitiMns Crime Commission The robbers were last seen driving westbound through the south end of the parking lot Thn first man ic drcnrihnd nc male wearing black sji mask about 6 feet 2 inches tall weigh ing around 250 pounds lhere is no description of the second rob ber A cash reward will be offered to anyone with information lead ing to the arrest of these individu als Please call Crime Stoppers at 596 COPS Callers may remain anonymous Broken Arrow 919 Elm Place (Boardwalk Center) NE Corner of 161st 71st Street an OUR SEASONS ESQ sunroo STUTTGART Ark: A mas sive ground search for 6 year old Morgan Nick and her abductor ended at 4:30 a Sunday after it was determined that the reported sighting of the child was it hoax A man who now sAys he lied about Seeing the girl with a man matching an BI sketch is in cus tody awaiting State or federal charges 5 had got a little bit too car ried away sorry to cause all this confusion Harvey told reporters after fail ing a lie detector test have wasted your time with the mos quitoes and stuff all out here" State Police Capt Houston Tal ley said the cost of the wasted effort was nothing when com pared with the strain main thing is the damage it did to the Talley said The mother and father Colleen and John Nick who had been taken by private jet to the Stuttgart area returned to Alma early Sunday to resume their vig il there Arkansas State Police Lt Dale Best who is in charge of the in vestigation into disap pearance says he never stopped following leads even after the re port that led to the search near Stuttgart came in Morgan a blonde blue eyed 6 year old was abducted at 10:45 pm June 9 at an Alma Little League ball park 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a police officer has pre pared him to deal with disap pointments such as this one but he feels the public might learn a lesson from it anything this has given the public a new eye toward what we have to deal with in these particu lar types of he said I hope it has told people that they should continue to bring us leads even if the word is out that we have a search like this going On Monday morning a crew of 17 additional Arkansas State Po lice officers are coming to Alma to work until riday evening bringing the total team to 25 Best said he hopes that during this five days the 1500 or more leads police have been receiving can be investigated On riday Best met with rep resentatives from Benton Wash ington Madison Sebastian Craw ford Logan ranklin Johnson Scott and Pope counties in Arkan sas to prepare for a house to house search of residences listing a pickup truck matching the de scription of the vehicle have been provided with a list of questions toask each person on the list once thy lo cate the said Best hope they find only one crook but there is the possibility oUindjpg The investigation into Mor' gan's abduction has brought sev eral unrelated arrests in the past two weeks including the arrest of a 31 year old man in the rape qf a 12 year old girl and fivedrugr rests three of them felonigs Police think her abductor is a 30 to 45 year old white male with salt and pepper hair and a short beard andor mustache He may be driving a faded red ord pickup with a white camper shell Police believe the truck which is a late 1960s or early 1970s model with a short bed may have Ar kansas plates Police arrested Harvey 30 a Stuttgart gardener who claimed to have seen Morgan at 4:35 am Sunday He will be arraigned at 1 pm Monday on pending state charges Harvey could be charged with filing a false police report and interfering with government operations both felonies Best said federal charges may be filed against Harvey this week as well rank Moore the chief jailer at the Stuttgart City Jail where Har vey is being held said Harvey failed two polygraphs given him by BI agents and the Arkansas State Police whole thing was a said Moore was terrible for the family to have their hopes raised and them to think that she might be alive The man finally What is theupdate on the law regarding animals riding in the confessed that he had lied and bed of 7 they arrested him This is so frus A This updated ordinance (Section 12036) which carries a pre set fine of $17 was implemented and requires animals such as dogs to Police told reporters that Har be tethered or caged if riding in the bed of a truck vey said he saw a man trying to: Is it true people are stealing airbags out of cars? break into his truck just before A Yes Like I have said before Side airbags are designed to be easily removed alter an accident so tqey aiso are easy to sieai it takes approximately three minutes to remove one The cost to replace one is about $1000 The street price for stolen bags is about $50 to 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