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Search for missing Mesa baby comes to Tucson
Posted: Feb 02, 2010 7:49 PM EST
Updated: Feb 02, 2010 8:49 PM EST
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Tuesday the baby's dad, Logan McQueary, came to Tucson to retrace the mother's footsteps. McQueary is stopping at hotels and convenience stores, from here to San Antonio, where he knows the mom and baby ended up at one point. McQueary is handing out fliers, asking questions,.hoping someone will give him a clue to find his son.

McQueary is especially optimistic after today's arrest of Scottsdale resident Tammi Smith.

McQueary has always believed she knows more than she is letting on and now that she's in custody, he's hoping for some answers.

"Maybe she's going to sit in jail and think about exactly what's going on. Maybe she'll come clean with everything that she knows. Maybe it will lead to finding Gabriel. That's what I'm hoping for," he says.

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Video: Gabriel's mom seen? 4:20
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Video: Gabriel's mom seen? 4:20
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Woman arrested in missing baby Gabriel case
Police say she is not connected to the 8-month-old boy&#8217;s disappearance
updated 8:37 p.m. ET, Tues., Feb. 2, 2010
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Tammi Smith, 37, was taken to Tempe police headquarters and was expected to be booked into Maricopa County jail on charges of custodial interference, conspiracy to commit custodial interference and forgery, Lt. Mike Horn said.

He said that all of his agency's leads into the disappearance have been turned over to San Antonio police, which is conducting its own investigation.

Efforts to adopt Gabriel
In a Tuesday court document detailing the charges against Tammi Smith, police describe for the first time the lengths to which she went to adopt Gabriel.

Before Johnson left Arizona with Gabriel, those efforts included repeated phone calls and text messages to his father, Logan McQueary, pressuring him to relinquish his parental rights to the Smiths, according to the probable-cause statement.

Landfill may be searched for boy's body
Smith also tried to change court jurisdiction over Gabriel to Tennessee in an apparent last-minute plan to get Johnson to take the boy there and adopt him out without needing McQueary's approval, thus clearing the way for the Smiths, Horn said.

And on Jan. 4, Smith suggested in a voicemail to the judge in the boy's custody case that he give the Smiths guardianship because Johnson wouldn't return to Arizona with him unless she knew he would be "safe," according to the document.

Today Show Video: Officers join forces, hunt for missing baby 5:51
Jan. 30: With very few leads, police in Tempe, Arizona - 8-month-old Gabriel's home state - are working closely with detectives in San Antonio, Texas - the last place he was seen alive. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports, then TODAY's Lester Holt speaks with former FBI profiler Clint van Zandt and Annalisa Urias, who babysat the boy before he went missing.
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Famed private investigator takes on 'Baby Gabriel' case
Posted on February 2, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Updated today at 9:32 PM
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The &#8216;Baby Gabriel&#8217; investigation is ramping up this week with a planned search of a San Antonio landfill where police fear the boy's body could have been dumped.

Now there is a new face involved in the case. Jay J. Armes is considered a quirky private eye with a track record of getting results. The eccentric investigator talked about why he is taking on the case as police say leads are drying up.

Armes&#8217; clients include celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and John Lennon along with royalty from around the world.

Armes is high-profile and high-price fetching between $150,000 to $1 million per case. Nevertheless he says he will search for Gabriel for free.

Armes will not reveal his techniques but says, &#8220;I follow rumors and I get to the bottom of it."

The private eye expects to meet with McQueary in El Paso sometime on Wednesday.

Video: Famed private investigator takes on 'Baby Gabriel' case 2:07
http://www.azfamily.com/video/?id=83410322&sec=507087

Article:
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Gabrie...d-investigator-who-gets-results-83410322.html

 

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Arrest made in missing boy case
Posted: 02/02/2010 11:25 CST
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Gabriel's father, Logan McQueary of Tempe, was in El Paso on Tuesday and planned to meet with internationally known private investigator Jay J. Armes.

&#8220;We will decipher every iota of information,&#8221; Armes said Tuesday morning, adding both he and McQueary are hopeful they'll find Gabriel. &#8220;Right now, I feel that Gabriel is still alive, because there haven't been any sightings of a cadaver.&#8221;

While Armes said a San Antonio police search of an East Side landfill conducted Monday failed to turn up any clues, police spokeswoman Sandy Gutierrez said officials haven't searched the Tessman Road Landfill site.

A segment of the landfill in the 7000 block of Interstate 10 East was blocked off as part of a possible search for Gabriel, said Peg Mulloy, spokeswoman for Arizona-based Republic Services Inc., which owns the 1,000-acre landfill.

Chief William McManus &#8220;has indicated that if something does happen, we'll let everyone know,&#8221; Gutierrez said, &#8220;but we did not search the landfill&#8221; on Monday.

He said a mutual friend told McQueary of Armes' company, and McQueary contacted him recently to ask if he was interested in the case. Armes, whose most famous investigation involved the 1972 return of Christian Brando after a custody-related kidnapping, signed on immediately. &#8220;We've already been following several leads.&#8221;

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Woman Arrested in Baby Gabriel Case
Tuesday February 2, 2010
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Tammi Smith was placed in the Maricopa County Jail in connection with the Baby Gabriel investigation.

Smith is in the same jail as the baby's mother, Elizabeth Johnson.

McQueary, the boy's father, is considered by police to be a victim in the case.

Investigators thought that she may have given the baby to a couple in San Antonio, but Gabriel has not been seen and no one has come forward with any information.

"It is a very real possibility that Elizabeth killed Gabriel," said Tempe Lt. Mike Horn said. "We are holding out hope that he's alive, but we have to look at every aspect and investigate everything."

Article:
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Gabriel's dad on desperate search to find baby boy
Posted on February 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM
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Logan McQueary is fed-up with no answers from the baby's mother .

So, McQueary is on his way to San Antonio to find his son, Baby Gabriel, who was last seen in S.A. on December 26.

Video: Gabriel's dad on desperate search to find baby boy 2:14
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Search for missing Mesa baby comes to Tucson
Posted: Feb 02, 2010 7:49 PM EST
Updated: Feb 2, 2010 05:49 PM
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No one has seen Gabriel Johnson since Christmas but it's thought that he came through the Tucson area with his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, at some point around then..

Tuesday the baby's dad, Logan McQueary, came to Tucson to retrace the mother's footsteps.

McQueary is stopping at hotels and convenience stores, from here to San Antonio, where he knows the mom and baby ended up at one point.

McQueary is especially optimistic after today's arrest of Scottsdale resident Tammi Smith.

"Maybe she's going to sit in jail and think about exactly what's going on. Maybe she'll come clean with everything that she knows. Maybe it will lead to finding Gabriel. That's what I'm hoping for," he says.

Video: Search for missing Mesa baby comes to Tucson 1:10
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Video: San Antonio Landfill Blocked Off To Search For Missing AZ Baby 0:27
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Arrest in Case of Missing "Baby Gabriel"
Woman Who, with Husband, Sought to Adopt Him, Is Taken into Custody; Cops: She Probably Doesn't Know Where Infant Is
TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 3, 2010
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Tammi Smith, 37, was interviewed at Tempe police headquarters and later booked into the Maricopa County Jail on charges of custodial interference, conspiracy to commit custodial interference and forgery.

Lt. Mike Horn said the charges stem from Smith's repeated and apparently desperate attempts to adopt 8-month-old Gabriel Johnson, not from the boy's Dec. 26 disappearance in San Antonio, Texas.

"The only thing I can surmise here is that the authorities think she knows something that she hasn't told them," Tammi Smith's lawyer, Michael Kimerer, told reporters.

In a Tuesday court document detailing the charges against Tammi Smith, police describe for the first time the lengths to which she went to adopt Gabriel.

Before Johnson left Arizona with Gabriel, those efforts included repeated phone calls and text messages to his father, Logan McQueary, pressuring him to relinquish his parental rights to the Smiths, according to the probable-cause statement.

Video: Arrest in Baby Gabriel Case 1:18
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Today Show Video: Arrest tied to baby Gabriel case 2:05
Feb. 3: Once a "person of interest," Tammi Smith now faces three felony charges, including custodial interference, but Tempe, Ariz., police don't believe she was involved in the child's disappearance. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
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Today Show Video: Arrest tied to baby Gabriel case 2:05
Feb. 3: Once a "person of interest," Tammi Smith now faces three felony charges, including custodial interference, but Tempe, Ariz., police don't believe she was involved in the child's disappearance. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
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Woman arrested in baby Gabriel case out of jail
February 3rd, 2010 @ 5:17am
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Tammy Smith's husband Jack picked her up at 4th Avenue Jail on Wednesday morning. Her attorney was not present.

She was charged with custodial interference and forgery. "It doesn't mean those charges are gonna stick. It doesn't mean those charges are true. But nevertheless, they were able to do that 'cause they're the guys with the guns," says Tammy Smith.

"You know, those are charges that Tempe Police Department is trying to create a case."

"I felt like she was being completely taken advantage of by the father and the grandfather."

When asked if she knows where the missing boy is, she says "absolutely not."

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Police: Scottsdale woman released in baby Gabriel case
Feb. 3, 2010 01:33 PM
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A Scottsdale woman who wanted to adopt an Arizona baby missing for more than a month has been released from a Phoenix jail.

As she was leaving jail, Smith told reporters the Tempe Police Department is trying to create a case. Smith it doesn't mean those charges leveled against her "are going to stick. Doesn't mean those charges are true."

Video: Latest developments In The Baby Gabriel Case 1:26
Tammi Smith out of jail on bond.
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Video: I-CAST: Tammi Smith Arrest 1:31
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UPDATED: Tammi Smith Arrested In Baby Gabriel Case
Tammi Smith Claims Innocence In Baby Gabriel's Disappearance
POSTED: 11:34 am MST February 2, 2010
UPDATED: 7:58 am MST February 3, 2010
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According to a statement from the Tempe Police Department, Smith was charged with conspiracy to commit custodial interference, custodial interference and forgery.

She was arraigned late Tuesday night and released early Wednesday morning.

"We all knew this would happen," Smith said as she walked into the Fourth Avenue Jail. "I am innocent. God is with me."

Jack Smith maintains his wife's innocence.

"We have been harassed," he said. "We have been bullied, and we know nothing."

He also said he trusts his wife.

"I've known every single thing -- everything all along the way," he said.

RAW VIDEO: Tammi, Jack Smith Speak Outside Jail
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VIDEO: Tammi Smith Released From Jail
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UPDATED: Potential adoptive mother of missing Tempe baby released from jail
Posted on February 2, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Updated today at 8:25 AM
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"She [Elizabeth Johnson] refused to put his [Logan McQueary's] name down because of the fact ... I can't say why," Smith said after her release from jail early Wednesday morning. "I'm not going to say why on TV, but the courts will know why when I go to court."

Smith, who posted $15,000 bond, said Johnson was going to list a fake name.

"I didn't want her to put a fake name. It's not right to do that, to hurt somebody else's family. In the process, I ended up hurting my family and myself because I didn't want her to make up a phony name have have somebody get a knock at their door one day."

While Smith says police arrested her so they could interrogate her in an effort to get more information, investigators said that's not the case.

The couple vows to continue looking for the baby. "Yes, I love this baby. I will look for this baby until he is found," Smith said outside Fourth Avenue Jail. "I will look for this baby the rest of my life until he's found. Even though it means bringing him back to Logan. Oh well. I'm still going to look for this baby."

Video: Potential adoptive mother of missing Tempe baby released from jail 3:06
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Video: AZ Family Morning Headlines (Interview w/Tammi from this morning included!) 1:34
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Baby Gabriel investigation zeroes in on San Antonio
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 8:20 AM
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The Scottsdale woman who went from person of interest to suspect in the case of Baby Gabriel posted bond and walked out of jail this Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after her arrest.

"All of the information we had led us to this arrest," said Sgt. Steven Carbajal of the Tempe Police Department.

Video Included In Article: Baby Gabriel investigation zeroes in on San Antonio 5:36
Includes interview from this morning w/Tammi!

Article:
http://www.azfamily.com/home/relate...gation-zeroes-in-on-San-Antonio-83440787.html

 

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Tammi Smith: I will look for this baby for the rest of my life
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 7:19 AM
Updated today at 7:37 AM
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Once a person of interest in the Baby Gabriel case, Tammi Smith is out of jail this morning after posting $15,000 bond. Police arrested Smith Tuesday morning on charges of conspiracy to commit custodial interference, custodial interference and forgery.

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Dad Embarks On Search For Baby Gabriel
Logan McQueary Plans To Retrace Elizabeth Johnson's Path Between Tempe, San Antonio
POSTED: 8:15 am MST February 3, 2010
UPDATED: 8:28 am MST February 3, 2010
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Using tips from the Internet and even psychics, the family plotted points on a map where they thought Johnson might have stopped, including the Mountain View Motel in Tucson.

"We got several tips &#8230; talking about a Mountain View or Mountain Inn Hotel," McQueary said. "This is the only one we could find and track down. We decided &#8230; it's worth checking out along the way."

The motel led to a women's shelter, then to a bowling alley, then to another women's shelter.

On Wednesday, McQueary planned to meet with a private investigator who offered to look into the case for free before the family headed to San Antonio, where the search is now centered.

VIDEO REPORT: Baby Gabriel's Dad Stops In Las Cruces 2/3/10 ~ 1:40
http://www.kpho.com/video/22424117/index.html

VIDEO REPORT:Logan McQueary Meets With Investigator In El Paso 2/3/10 ~ 2:48
http://www.kpho.com/video/22451769/index.html

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