GA GA - Jesus Mancilla-Velez, 35, Warner Robins, vehicle found, 5 Sep 2020

[mlhenn]

https://www.macon.com/news/local/community/houston-peach/article246305190.html

THE INVESTIGATION
•The GBI processed both the vehicle and the Red Fox Run mobile home.
•What evidence may have been uncovered from the home and vehicle have not been publicly disclosed.
•No blood was found in the Tahoe, and the vehicle did not appear to have been wrecked but simply driven up into overgrowth.
•The Tahoe’s GPS system wasn’t activated
•security video camera that was found in the Tahoe
•LE have canvassed neighborhoods and searched by foot and by air, brought in dogs, searched 2 ponds, and have also been combing through cellphone records, obtained search warrants for email and IP addresses, and reviewed video surveillance footage from multiple businesses along Russell Parkway in Houston County, Ga. 49 in Peach County and Ga. 42 in Peach and Crawford County.

 

[mlhenn]

This a pretty detailed timeline shared at the link in the previous post as well.

 

[JudgeJoe]

Following. Got some catch’n up to do. Lots of details!

 

[mlhenn]

The Telegraph & macon.com

Additional link

 

[mlhenn]

Additional money offered for new information on missing man

The search continues for 35-year-old Jesus Mancilla-Velez, and now an additional $3,000 is being offered to anyone with new information.

According to Thomas, Crimestoppers is offering up to $2,000. A donor later stepped up and offered an additional $3,000. He says the amount ultimately offered by Crimestoppers depends on the elements of arrest.


The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has received several online messages referencing the Q-See Security camera found in the back of Velez’ car, but Todd Crosby with the GBI says nothing has panned out.

Crosby says the GBI is still actively investigating. He says they went through Mancilla-Velez’s phone records and are using a new technology to help in the case.

“More searches in the upcoming weeks when personnel are available to us,” Crosby said. “We have evidence at the crime lab that has been recovered and processed and sent there for further analysis and we’re waiting on those results.”

 

[mlhenn]

GBI using more resources to help find Jesus Mancilla-Velez | 13wmaz.com

“We've got leads coming in daily, every day, on this case. We're actively working those leads and following through with them," Crosby said.

Crosby also says they plan more ground searches in the next few weeks.

They are also bringing cadaver dogs back in.

 

[mlhenn]

https://www.facebook.com/Georgia.Bu...0838348554/1590317721130186/?type=3&source=54

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[mlhenn]

Missing / Endangered Person Jesus Mancilla-Velez of Red Fox Run in Warner Robins - Macon Regional Crimestoppers

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Jesus Mancilla-Velez: Search for missing Georgia man continues | 13wmaz.com

It's been nearly four months since Jesus Mancilla-Velez was last seen and his family says their first holiday season without him has been difficult.

He went missing back in September after his close friend, Ursula Lunce, says he was supposed to meet her and others for a trip to Savannah. He never showed up.

The family says they've been in constant contact with law enforcement for updates, but haven't been told anything new.

Family is using social media to get Jesus’s face and information out to the public. The family also added to a Macon Regional Crimestoppers reward for anyone with information on the disappearance. They are begging anyone with answers to speak up.

 

[mlhenn]

https://www.macon.com/news/local/community/houston-peach/article247950760.html

The GBI suspects foul play.

Family members expressed frustration over not having concrete answers from investigators.

Todd Crosby, special agent in charge of the GBI’s Region 13 Office in Perry, said, “If they think that we are not actively pursuing this investigation, they are sorely wrong.”

He declined to elaborate on the investigation.

“We have some new leads that we are actively running, and we have people still calling and giving us information that we’re running on a daily basis,” Crosby said. “But as far as releasing what we’re running and what we’re working on, I’m not going to do that because this is an active, ongoing investigation and I don’t want anything to interfere with that.”

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A neighbor washing their car saw Mancilla-Velez get in his pickup and drive away from his home between 9 and 10 a.m. the day he went missing. Although his pickup was found several hours later abandoned in the grassy area off Rowland Road, investigators learned that it was first spotted there by a nearby resident about 11:30 a.m.

Mancilla-Velez was known to be active on dating apps and was likely carrying as much as $1,000 in cash, including his monthly vehicle payment, on him the day he vanished, his family said.

 

[YaYa_521]

https://www.macon.com/news/local/community/houston-peach/article247950760.html

The GBI suspects foul play.
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A neighbor washing their car saw Mancilla-Velez get in his pickup and drive away from his home between 9 and 10 a.m. the day he went missing. Although his pickup was found several hours later abandoned in the grassy area off Rowland Road, investigators learned that it was first spotted there by a nearby resident about 11:30 a.m.

Mancilla-Velez was known to be active on dating apps and was likely carrying as much as $1,000 in cash, including his monthly vehicle payment, on him the day he vanished, his family said.

RSBBM TYVM for the update!

These new details have me concerned. I already didn't like the feeling I had about the home security camera found in his vehicle, so these new insights make me really sad when I think about what likely happened to Jesus. He and his loved ones are in my prayers. MOO

 

[YaYa_521]

https://www.macon.com/news/local/community/houston-peach/article246305190.html

THE INVESTIGATION
•The GBI processed both the vehicle and the Red Fox Run mobile home.
•What evidence may have been uncovered from the home and vehicle have not been publicly disclosed.
•No blood was found in the Tahoe, and the vehicle did not appear to have been wrecked but simply driven up into overgrowth.
•The Tahoe’s GPS system wasn’t activated
•security video camera that was found in the Tahoe
•LE have canvassed neighborhoods and searched by foot and by air, brought in dogs, searched 2 ponds, and have also been combing through cellphone records, obtained search warrants for email and IP addresses, and reviewed video surveillance footage from multiple businesses along Russell Parkway in Houston County, Ga. 49 in Peach County and Ga. 42 in Peach and Crawford County.

A TIMELINE
Based on interviews from canvassing neighborhoods and reviewing security and other video, authorities have developed a timeline that may track Mancilla-Velez from when he was last seen. His keys, wallet and cellphone have not been recovered.

▪ At 10:06 a.m., a black Tahoe was captured on surveillance video passing by a convenience store and then a liquor store on Russell Parkway toward Interstate 75 in Houston County. The Red Fox Run mobile home park is located off Russell Parkway and the convenience store is near his home.

Who was behind the wheel of the black Tahoe and the vehicle’s license plate could not be seen, but a sticker on the vehicle appears to match one on Mancilla-Velez’s Tahoe, Crosby said.

If Mancilla-Velez left his home closer to 9 a.m. than 10 a.m., authorities have not found any surveillance video that might provide clues to his disappearance during that time frame, Crosby said.

▪ At 10:13 a.m., a black Tahoe was captured by a dash cam of a Byron patrol vehicle passing it on Ga. 49 in Peach County.

▪ At 10:22 a.m., a black Tahoe passing by Spring Hill Community Church at 12114 Ga. 42 in Crawford County was captured on security video. The church is about 3.6 miles from where Mancilla-Velez’s Tahoe was found.

The driver or vehicle plates could not be seen on either the dash cam or surveillance video as the Tahoe passed by the patrol car in Byron and the church in Crawford County. But based on the timeline, Crosby said he thinks it’s Mancilla-Velez’s Tahoe.

▪ At 11:30 a.m., a black Tahoe, later identified as Mancilla-Velez’s Tahoe, is spotted in the grassy area off Rowland Road by a resident.

▪ At 1:45 p.m, hunters also saw the Tahoe parked there. The property is leased for hunting, it was the start of the dove hunting season and the archery season for deer hunting was just around the corner, so they figured the Tahoe’s owner was also a hunter, Crosby said.

▪ At 6:25 p.m., a Crawford County sheriff’s deputy is dispatched to Rowland Road after the property owner reported the abandoned Tahoe as suspicious. He had thought the hunters had parked the Tahoe there, but then he talked to them.

 

[mlhenn]

'It's like a hole in your heart': The disappearance of Jesus Mancilla-Velez

Feb 18
According to Jesus' best friend Ursula, she and Jesus had an evening out in Downtown Macon. She notes the two returned back to her home in the early morning hours of Saturday, September 5.

That day, the two friends were to travel to Savannah for a weekend getaway. But when Ursula reached out to Jesus later that Saturday he never responded, and minutes turned into hours with no communication.

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Saturday evening, a suspicious car was reported in a wooded area near Rowland Road in Crawford County. That mysterious car turned out to be Jesus' black 2015 Chevy Tahoe. The incident report describes the SUV as "suspicious," and notes the driver window was halfway rolled down, with no one near the vehicle.

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One thing that sticks out to the Mancilla-Velez family is that investigators found a surveillance camera inside the car.

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The family says the night of Jesus’ disappearance, they went searching at his home and found candles lit inside, to them that solidifies that Jesus in fact planned to return when he went out that morning.

It's unclear whether or not Jesus' cellphone has been recovered.

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Our team emailed and called the GBI to speak on the case, to which they declined because it is an "active investigation."

 

[JudgeJoe]

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This case reminds me a bit of J Dax D. Abandoned vehicle… and a man vanished. Where is Jesus M?

 

[mlhenn]

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I pray for a new lead in this case; some form of closure, an answer, anything.

 

[mlhenn]

Missing for 9 months, Jesus Mancilla Velez's family wants answers

Jesus Mancilla-Velez was last seen driving away from his home in September 2020.

Jesus' brothers and sister in law say they need peace and to get it, they want the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to try harder.

The Mancilla family has been outspoken in their search for Jesus and now they're demanding answers from investigators.

In the weeks following his disappearance, a task force including local law enforcement and the GBI, was created to strengthen the search efforts.

The older brother says he used to send an email to the agency every week. That's now down to once a month.

"Always the same thing, always they say: we still looking, we don't have answers, we don't know," Gomez explained.

The family says they don't want to point fingers, but they feel like no one is looking for him.

Emails from the GBI typically read in part: "Waiting on evidence to be processed, we'll update you soon..." A message given to the family for months.

Mancilla saying, "I think it's time to give me the answers now, bad or good, I just want answers now."

 

[lindamichelle1]

One year later: Warner Robins man Jesus Mancilla Velez still missing

One year later: Warner Robins man Jesus Mancilla Velez still missing

 

[mlhenn]

One year later: Warner Robins man Jesus Mancilla Velez still missing

One year later: Warner Robins man Jesus Mancilla Velez still missing

The disappearance of Mancilla Velez was called unusual from the beginning.

He was reported missing in Houston County on September 5, 2020. His black Chevy Tahoe found abandoned the same day, two counties away in Crawford off of Georgia Hwy. 42 near a wooded area in the area of Rowland Rd.

It's since been believed he traveled in Houston, Peach, Crawford, and possibly Bibb County that day.

Nearly two weeks after the then 35-year-old went missing, a task force made up of local law enforcement formed.

Soon they group revealed what may be a clue: an unplugged camera found in his car.

After the find, new information on the case came to a stop, not only for the public but the Mancilla family.

 

[mlhenn]

Sadly, still missing…

 

[Nancy Drew RN]

It just kills me what a tight time frame this is, assuming he went home alone at 4:30 that morning. Who did he meet, in what's sounding like was no more than about an hour and a half? If he left the house at almost 10 AM, and the truck was thirty minutes away by around 11:30? I'd almost buy it more that he brought a hook up home on the way home from his night out, in the early morning, and then that person was the one driving the Tahoe or who somehow took over the situation. But for anyone to leave that Tahoe on hunting land, there almost had to be an accomplice to meet or pick that person up. Plus, while it's not out of the realm of possibility, someone taking the time to light candles, etc., is just creepy. I guess they could have been left burning accidentally, either by Jesus or this hypothetical other person.

Is it known if Jesus were meeting men or women on these apps? It didn't seem to come up in the coverage.