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Foster Father Released
Posted: Tuesday, 01 September 2009 2:28PM
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Oakland Police said they're continuing to focus their homicide investigation on the foster parents of missing 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell, despite prosecutors announcing there isn't enough evidence to charge them.
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said Tuesday that investigators know Hasanni Campbell was not in Oakland on August 10, the day his foster father Louis Ross told authorities the boy disappeared after being briefly left alone in a car outside an Oakland shoe store.

Jordan's comments come after prosecutors decided no charges would be filed against Ross or his fiancee Jennifer Campbell, Hasanni's biological aunt.

Police have also released surveillance footage from a Wal-Mart store in Fremont recorded on August 6 that they say is the last known sighting of the boy.

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But Jordan said today that, "We strongly believe and know for a fact that Hasanni Campbell never made it to Oakland or College Avenue at 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 10."

However, Jordan didn't offer any evidence to back up his assertion and left a brief news conference at police headquarters without taking any questions.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason told reporters that the last time anyone other than Ross or Campbell saw Hasanni was at the Walmart store in Fremont on Aug. 6, four days before Ross reported that Hasanni was missing.

Thomason gave reporters a video and pictures of Ross and Campbell with Hasanni and his sister at the store.

Hasanni was wearing blue jeans, a dark jacket, a red-and-blue hat and tennis shoes at the time.


http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...bay&id=6993281

"The police can arrest any time they have probable cause to believe that a crime is committed. But a prosecutor can file charges only if he or she believes that he can prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt to a reasonable jury using admissible evidence," said ABC7 Legal Analyst Dean Johnson.
 
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/01/...a.missing.boy/

Police say missing boy dead, foster parents suspects

Thomason declined to explain why the case had become a homicide investigation less than a month after Hasanni's guardians reported him missing. No body has been found.

"There's a lot of evidence right now we feel we still need to keep close to the investigation," he said.

"Even though they're released, they're still suspects," he said. "They're the last people who saw Hasanni alive."


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Ross and Campbell have maintained their innocence and continued to cooperate with police, said John Burris, a lawyer who has been advising the couple since the boy's disappearance.

"They're both very emotional. It's been traumatic for her as she'd never been in custody before. She felt she'd been treated terribly, that they'd been duplicitous toward her after she'd been cooperating with the investigation," Burris said.

"Mr. Ross is quite emotional as well, though he seemed to be more worried about her," Burris said
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Hasanni Campbell's foster parents - whom Oakland police held over the weekend on suspicion of being involved in the 5-year-old Fremont boy's disappearance - would appear to be the least likely of suspects, according to social service records that have been turned over to investigators.



In fact, regular home inspections and other checks by San Francisco's Department of Human Services into Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell of Fremont show a spotless record of foster parenting.

Hasanni and his baby sister, now 1 year old, were placed with Ross and Campbell, the children's aunt, in late 2008. The children's biological parents live in San Francisco, so social workers in the city kept tabs on them.

Both Campbell and Ross were run through state and FBI databases for any criminal record or instances of child abuse. They came back clean.
 
UPDATED: OPD Focus Still On Uncharged Foster Dad
Sep 2, 2009 12:37 am US/Pacific
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Oakland police said Tuesday that they were continuing to focus their homicide investigation on the foster parents of a missing 5-year-old disabled boy, despite prosecutors announcing there isn't enough evidence to charge them.

Police Chief Howard Jordan said that investigators know Hasanni Campbell was not in Oakland on Aug. 10 &#8212; the day his foster father Louis Ross told authorities the boy disappeared after being briefly left alone in a car outside the Shuz of Rockridge shoe store in the 6000 block of College Avenue.

"We strongly believe and know for a fact that Hasanni Campbell never made it to Oakland on August 10 to College Avenue at 4:15 as was previously reported," Jordan said.

"We are continuing to put our efforts into solving this case and potentially re-arresting Mr. Louis Ross or Jennifer Campbell at some point," Jordan said. "We respect the DA's opinion but we have some more work to do here."

Ross will help with the search for the boy upon his release from Alameda County's Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, his attorney John Burris said, calling the decision not to file any charges against Ross at this time "terrific."

The couple has cooperated fully with police in their investigation, said Burris, who added that he thought the decision by police to arrest Ross and Campbell "was wrong-headed" and "unfair to these two people."

"There was never sufficient evidence against either of them," he said.

Burris believed the arrests were "a tactic to see if they would turn against each other but it was unsuccessful."

"I hope the attention now turns to trying to find Hasanni and the people who possibly kidnapped him," Burris said.


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NEW VIDEO: Hasanni Campbell's Foster Father Gets Released From Jail And Speaks To Media
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Special Coverage: The Search For Hasanni (FYI: Many Article's & Video's Are At This Link, but not all of them have been added to this link!
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Foster Father Describes Jail Experience As 'Hell'
Posted: 10:51 pm PDT September 1, 2009
Updated: 1:19 am PDT September 2, 2009
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Louis Ross looked worn out when he walked out of Santa Rita Jail in Dublin at around 7 p.m., arm-in-arm with his fiance Jennifer Campbell.

Ross was released after the Alameda County District Attorney decided there was not enough evidence to prosecute him. Ross was arrested last Friday on suspicion of murdering his five-year-old foster son.

Ross described his four days in jail as "hell."

He said investigators tried to deceive him on Friday afternoon, shortly after they arrested his fiance at the Union City BART station without Ross's knowledge. Ross said the police started texting him messages posing as Jennifer.

"Her text messages didn't make sense," said Ross. "I find out she wasn't texting me. They had her in custody. They [police] had her cell phone ... basically coercing me to come out come get her at the BART."

Ross said police then ordered him to come out of his Fremont home. He said when he came out, "about four or five police officers with automatic weapons pointed at me. [They said] 'Walk back up...kneel down'."

When asked what was going through his mind Ross answered, "No sudden movement. I didn't want to be on the next six o'clock news as the next casualty."

During the police interrogation, Ross says he waived his right to remain silent and answered questions from the investigators.

"I told the same story I told the previous detective." he said. "They got the same story; they were not happy with the story they got. They wanted something else."

Tuesday evening, the couple said they will take life one day at a time and continue to look for Hasanni.

"I know I'm innocent," said Campbell. "I know Louis is innocent."

Campbell said as Ross was waiting to be released, her family suffered another blow. A family court formally took away custody of Hasanni's 19-month-old sister, Aliyah.

VIDEO~ DUBLIN: Foster Father Of Missing Boy Maintains Innocence
http://www.ktvu.com/video/20679831/index.html

Article:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/20680153/detail.html
 
Missing boy's foster dad released - no charges
September 2, 2009
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21:39 PDT OAKLAND, CALIF. -- The foster father of Hasanni Campbell will not face criminal charges at this time, a prosecutor said Tuesday, even as police declared that they "know for a fact" that his story of how the 5-year-old Fremont boy disappeared is false.

Officer Jeff Thomason, a police spokesman, said the Walmart trip is "the last time that we have independent information about Hasanni Campbell being alive."

Jordan said while it was unfortunate that prosecutors "did not find it fit" to charge either Ross or Campbell, he respects their decision.

However, he added, "We are continuing to put our efforts into solving this case and potentially rearresting Mr. Louis Ross or Jennifer Campbell."

Friends of the couple plan to search for Hasanni on Saturday at Lake Elizabeth in Fremont.

"The focus should be finding this missing boy," said Campbell's mother, Pamela Clark, 62, of San Francisco. She said of the attention on the couple, "It's like a terrible witch hunt."

2-VIDEOS AND 6-IMAGES~Missing boy's foster dad released - no charges:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/09/01/BA3619GT72.DTL&o=

Article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/01/BA3619GT72.DTL
 
Campbell foster parents released, no charges filed
September 1, 2009 &#8211; 8:23 pm
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Citing insufficient evidence, the Alameda County District Attorney&#8217;s office cancelled an arraignment hearing for Louis Ross, jailed last week with his fiancee on suspicion of murdering five-year-old Hassani Campbell, officials said Tuesday.

Despite doubts surrounding the strength of the investigation into the high-profile case, Oakland police officials said the department will continue to investigate the whereabouts of the boy. His foster parents &#8212; Ross and fiancee Jennifer Campbell &#8212; say the boy went missing in Rockridge a little over two weeks ago, but investigators still question that claim and hope to re-arrest the couple, said Oakland Police chief Howard Jordan.

Oakland attorney John Burris, who is acting as an advisor for the accused couple, said the evidence is still too weak to have justified an arrest. He believes that investigators lack convincing evidence to substantiate claims that Campbell was dead or missing prior to August 10, when Campbell and Ross reported that he had disappeared from a car parked behind the Rockridge shoe store.

&#8220;My feeling about this is that the evidence they did have was no more than a suspicion,&#8221; Burris said in an interview this afternoon. &#8220;The D.A. did the right thing.&#8221;

He said the investigation was &#8220;excruciating and very challenging&#8221; for Ross and Campbell, who is six months pregnant. &#8220;They were in the process of building a family,&#8221; Burris said.

Officials at Oakland Police Department could not be immediately reached for a response to Burris&#8217; comments. Burris is a high-profile attorney who has worked with clients including Barry Bonds and Tupac Shakur, and has a record of victories against the Oakland Police Department including a $10.9 million class action lawsuit in the high-profile Riders Case.

This still is from a video, released by Oakland Police today, which proports to show Hassani Campbell at a Fremont store shortly before he disappeared.
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Article:
http://oaklandnorth.net/2009/09/01/campbell-foster-parents-released-no-charges-filed/
 
Louis Ross released from jail, last video of Hassani Campbell released
September 2, 3:49 AM
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On Tuesday, missing Hassani Campbell&#8217;s foster father was released from jail after being arrested on Friday for suspicion of murder.

Louis Ross and his fiancé Jennifer Campbell, Hassani&#8217;s aunt, were both taken into custody on Friday as authorities announced the couple was suspected of murder and the case of the missing 5-year-old was now a homicide investigation.

Campbell was released on Monday because authorities said they had insufficient evidence against her. The district attorney had until Tuesday to file charges against Ross, but instead released him as well.

Despite their release, investigators still question the couple&#8217;s story surrounding Hassani&#8217;s disappearance and Oakland Police chief Howard Jordan announced they hope to re-arrest the couple.
Hassani, who has cerebral palsy, went missing Aug. 10 and was last seen with Ross, who claimed the boy disappeared after he left him alone briefly in a shoe store parking lot. Police said Hassani never made it to that shoe store, effectively stating Ross' story is false.

Oakland police release last video of Hasanni Campbell
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No charges filed but focus still on couple in missing boy case
September 2, 2009
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Detectives continued to focus their investigation on the foster parents of a missing 5-year-old disabled boy despite prosecutors announcing there was not enough evidence to charge them with murder, police said.

Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said Tuesday that investigators know Hasanni Campbell was not in Oakland on Aug. 10. That's the day Hasanni's foster father, Louis Ross, told authorities the boy disappeared after being left alone briefly outside an Oakland shoe store.

"We strongly believe and know for a fact that Hasanni Campbell never made it to Oakland on August 10 to College Avenue at 4:15 as was previously reported," Jordan said.

"We are continuing to put our efforts into solving this case and potentially re-arresting Mr. Louis Ross or Jennifer Campbell at some point," Jordan said. "We respect the DA's opinion but we have some more work to do here."

On Tuesday, police also released surveillance footage from a Wal-Mart store in Fremont recorded on Aug. 6 that they say it is the last known sighting of the boy.

In photographs, the boy is seen wearing jeans, a black jacket, black shoes and a red and blue cap. Hasanni and his sister were captured in the pictures shopping with Ross and Campbell.

Sherri-Lyn Miller, a volunteer whose company has created T-shirts and fliers during the search, said the focus should be on locating Hasanni, not on Ross and Campbell.

"We're not going to treat him as a homicide victim like the police because we don't know that yet," Miller said. "It's time to bring this baby home."

Article:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/crime/No-charges-for-foster-dad-in-missing-child-case-56617582.html
 
http://www.foxreno.com/news/20680153/detail.html

Ross described his four days in jail as "hell."

He said investigators tried to deceive him on Friday afternoon, shortly after they arrested his fiance at the Union City BART station without Ross's knowledge. Ross said the police started texting him messages posing as Jennifer.

"Her text messages didn't make sense," said Ross. "I find out she wasn't texting me. They had her in custody. They [police] had her cell phone ... basically coercing me to come out come get her at the BART."

Ross said police then ordered him to come out of his Fremont home. He said when he came out, "about four or five police officers with automatic weapons pointed at me. [They said] 'Walk back up...kneel down'."
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Oakland Acting Police Chief Howard Jordan said Tuesday that the foster parents of missing 5-year-old boy Hasanni Campbell are still the main suspects in the case even though prosecutors say there's not enough evidence to charge them at this time.

In a one-minute statement to reporters, Jordan said, "We're asking for the public's help to solve this case and potentially re-arrest Mr. Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell."


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Oakland attorney John Burris, who has consulted with Ross and Campbell, said Tuesday that, "I hope the attention now turns to trying to find Hasanni and the people who possibly kidnapped him."

He said that because Hasanni's body hasn't been found, "The district attorney was placed in a position where kids do turn up and are found and there's no proof yet that Hasanni is dead."
 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BALM19HELP.DTL

Missing boy's foster parents lash out at cops

Outside jail on Tuesday evening, Ross told reporters that he was angry at the couple's treatment by police.

"See, I trusted their work, but they've shown through their actions their work cannot be trusted," Ross said. "They've shown through their actions they have an agenda."

Ross said he has repeated his account of what he did before Hasanni disappeared. "They got the same story, but they were not happy with the story that they got," he said. "They wanted something else."

Campbell agreed, saying, "I don't know what type of evidence they plan to come up with or what they plan to do, and I'll leave their investigation alone. I know I'm innocent, and I know Louis is innocent."
 
UPDATED: Hasanni's foster parents say they're innocent
September 2, 2009
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(09-02) 06:25 PDT OAKLAND -- The foster parents of Hasanni Campbell proclaimed their innocence outside jail, saying they had nothing to do with the 5-year-old Fremont's disappearance and attacking the tactics of police investigators who believe their son was killed.

Outside jail on Tuesday evening, Ross told reporters that he was angry at the couple's treatment by police.

"See, I trusted their work, but they've shown through their actions their work cannot be trusted," Ross said. "They've shown through their actions they have an agenda."

Ross said he has repeated his account of what he did before Hasanni disappeared. "They got the same story, but they were not happy with the story that they got," he said. "They wanted something else."

Campbell agreed, saying, "I don't know what type of evidence they plan to come up with or what they plan to do, and I'll leave their investigation alone. I know I'm innocent, and I know Louis is innocent."

Officer Jeff Thomason, a police spokesman, said the Walmart trip is "the last time that we have independent information about Hasanni Campbell being alive." Ross and Campbell said they were the ones who gave the police the information about the shopping trip.

"I gave them a catalog of this, and I supplied them with proof. I said, 'As a matter of fact, here's a receipt. Check the time-date stamp. Look at the video. You'll see him there - you'll see all of us there."

Ross said after police arrested Campbell at the Union City BART Station on Friday afternoon, officers used her cell phone and texted him in an attempt to coax him out of his home on Roxie Terrace in Fremont. Ross said officers with "automatic weapons" ordered him outside.

"You do not destroy people, tear them down or destroy families so you can prove that you were right," Ross said.

Hasanni and his sister were placed with the couple in late 2008. The girl has been removed from their custody. The children's biological parents live separately in San Francisco. Records with San Francisco's Department of Human Services show no history of problems.

Article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/02/BALM19HELP.DTL&tsp=1
 
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local...-56718592.html

Hasanni Never Made it to Oakland: Police

Ross insists that someone took the boy because his physical condition prevents him from running.

"We know for a fact that Hasanni Campbell never made it to Oakland Aug. 10th at as was previously reported." Oakland Poilce spokesman Jeff Thomason said.

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"I gave them receipts, cards, bank statements. I gave them times I was there." Ross said. "I gave them everything."

The couple believes they are the targets of a witch hunt.
 
Murderers or model parents?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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Hasanni Campbell's foster parents - whom Oakland police held over the weekend on suspicion of being involved in the 5-year-old Fremont boy's disappearance - would appear to be the least likely of suspects, according to social service records that have been turned over to investigators.

In fact, regular home inspections and other checks by San Francisco's Department of Human Services into Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell of Fremont show a spotless record of foster parenting.

Hasanni and his baby sister, now 1 year old, were placed with Ross and Campbell, the children's aunt, in late 2008. The children's biological parents live in San Francisco, so social workers in the city kept tabs on them.

Both Campbell and Ross were run through state and FBI databases for any criminal record or instances of child abuse. They came back clean.

Every month, social workers stopped by the couple's home on Roxie Terrace in Fremont. The last visit was July 22, less than three weeks before Ross reported Hasanni missing Aug. 10.

"If anything, they went out of their way to take care of his various medical problems," said a San Francisco social services official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak while the criminal investigation into Hasanni's disappearance continues.

Hasanni has cerebral palsy, and the couple made sure he was equipped at UCSF with special pediatric leg braces. They also regularly took him for treatment at Children's Hospital Oakland, he said.

Although Oakland police say they don't believe Ross' story of Hasanni's disappearance, the San Francisco official is perplexed.

"They were really good foster parents," he said.

Article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/02/BAVA19H138.DTL
 
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