Deceased/Not Found MI - Bianca Jones, 2, Detroit, 2 Dec 2011 - #1 - *D. Lane guilty*

[Melanie]

Jones’ father tells WDIV he pulled over to help a vehicle with a broken taillight, when the man pulled out a gun and drove off with his vehicle. The little girl was inside.


http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=693076

Ugggh....I'm reading a different story. That someone pulled the dad over because HE had a faulty taillight.

Stephens said the carjackers told the father there was a problem with his taillight, and when he got out to look, they stole his vehicle.

I know guys like my husband would get out -- but me - NO WAY. I don't care if I had a flat tire, I'd never pull over for a stranger -- I'd keep on going to the next gas station (not caring if I tore up my rim or not).

http://www.freep.com/article/201112...carjacking?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Mel

 

[katydid23]

Parents...mom was escorted with detectives (along with other relatives)..also father escorted for questioning. No one in custody however

I bet they are asking Dad who else saw the baby with him last night and this morning.

 

[PlainJaneDoe]

How do you 'help' someone with a broken tail light? And it was day light. What was the big emergency about a broken tail light?

They helped with the tail light by relieving him of the car. Now the tail light is their concern. Also, now the tail light won't ne worrying him cuz it's the least of his problems. What nice helpers!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Channel 4 news on now. Many conflicting details in this story.

Dad was on his way to the mother's home with the little girl who had spent the night at his home - no mention of the mother having been in the car with him and the child.

Bianca's dad has been taken in for questioning - he is the last known person to have seen the child.

 

[Geralyn]

Cheif Godbee... just questioning father because he is "the link to everything we do" because he was last to see her and "we need to go over his story and corroborate his information" Plea for public tips. Father is so far the only witness, none have come forward

 

[Geralyn]

Per Chief...did canine search of vehicle, did not get a "hit" that would produce Bianca

 

[Geralyn]

Chief asked if father was a POI....Chief said "no, not willing to go in that direction right now"

 

[Cubby]

Police said the girl’s name is Bianca Jones. She is black, about 25 pounds, with braids in her hair and was wearing either a pink or purple coat with rhinestones or beads on it, pink shoes and pink tights. The girl’s uncle, Olando Jones, said Lane was on his way to the girl’s mother’s house to pick up clothing for the girl who was to stay with Lane for a week.


“She is very intelligent,” said Olando Jones, 20. “She’s so smart and can speak and she’s really good and loves to read.”



Jones, said his sister Banika Jones, 32, and the girl’s father have a good relationship and that Lane is like a family member.

~snip~

Coming out of the home on Custer between Brush and John R, Olando Jones, pleaded through tears for whomever took his niece to please return her or drop her off safely at an area hospital or church.

“I want to help but I literally feel helpless, like there’s nothing I can do,” Olando Jones said. “And I hate this feeling because I’m very upset and never experienced this before.”

Jones said Bianca celebrated her 2nd birthday last week adding that shares her birth month with her mother and grandmother.

“I love you and I’m sorry this happened to you,” Jones tearfully said about Bianca. “I wish I could have been there and I pray to see you again."
http://www.freep.com/article/201112...-kidnapped-during-carjacking?odyssey=nav|head

They have 75 officers, the tracking dogs, the FBI, and now the mounted patrol, as well.

Again this is contradictory information. This morning MSM reported the childs mother said Bianca spent the night at her dads and was supposed to be home by 11am this morning. Now dads side of the family is saying Dad was going to pick up clothing for his daughter and was going to stay at dads for a week. So which is it? And if the child was to stay with dad for a week why weren't clothes picked up for her last night?

Now I'm almost wondering if there is a custody issue of some sort. Dad walks out to car, puts child in car - which adds a few minutes. Not many, but a few. I'm trying to envision a scenario where car jacker doesn't know there is a child in the car and I just can't. Dad should have been walking or carrying the child to the car. So did this alleged car jacker just happen to show up at the exact same time dad walked outside?


Then add a 'stranger' who happens to car jack the car, later realizes there is a child he was unaware of and he ditches the car but not the child? And he steals the car from a residential neighborhood but doesn't see dad put the child in the car?

We've seen cases like this before. Usually the car jacker ditches the child not the car. The child is then found wandering without an adult.

Does anyone know the distance between where the car was 'stolen' and where it was found?

 

[Geralyn]

1-800-Speak Up....number to call for Tips

 

[katydid23]

Ugggh....I'm reading a different story. That someone pulled the dad over because HE had a faulty taillight.

Stephens said the carjackers told the father there was a problem with his taillight, and when he got out to look, they stole his vehicle.

I know guys like my husband would get out -- but me - NO WAY. I don't care if I had a flat tire, I'd never pull over for a stranger -- I'd keep on going to the next gas station (not caring if I tore up my rim or not).

http://www.freep.com/article/201112...carjacking?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Mel

That part makes no sense to me. It was a dangerous part of town. Why would an unarmed man with a baby in the back seat get out of his car for two male strangers, just because of a possible tail light problem? He seems too street smart for that, imo/

 

[DairyGirl]

The car was only 7 years old. It's a 2004.
It would be normal for these kinds of carjackings. Maybe they wanted the car and when they realized they got a kid in the bargain too, they dumped the car ASAP.

But why take the baby? I could see them dropping the baby off somewhere and taking the car but why leave the car and take the baby? It just doesn't make sense.

 

[Geralyn]

Bianca answers to the nickname "Bacon" (she loves bacon)

 

[amandab]

How noticeable is a broken tail light in the daytime, anyhow?

 

[katydid23]

Again this is contradictory information. This morning MSM reported the childs mother said Bianca spent the night at her dads and was supposed to be home by 11am this morning. Now dads side of the family is saying Dad was going to pick up clothing for his daughter and was going to stay at dads for a week. So which is it? And if the child was to stay with dad for a week why weren't clothes picked up for her last night?

Now I'm almost wondering if there is a custody issue of some sort. Dad walks out to car, puts child in car - which adds a few minutes. Not many, but a few. I'm trying to envision a scenario where car jacker doesn't know there is a child in the car and I just can't. Dad should have been walking or carrying the child to the car. So did this alleged car jacker just happen to show up at the exact same time dad walked outside?


Then add a 'stranger' who happens to car jack the car, later realizes there is a child he was unaware of and he ditches the car but not the child? And he steals the car from a residential neighborhood but doesn't see dad put the child in the car?

We've seen cases like this before. Usually the car jacker ditches the child not the car. The child is then found wandering without an adult.

Does anyone know the distance between where the car was 'stolen' and where it was found?

And if TWO men were going to carjack a car y force, wouldn't they have to look in the car to make sure there are no other adult males inside who may be armed? I cannot believe they would point a gun at the driver without scoping out the other potential passengers as well.

I do not know the distance in miles, but the time it was found was only ten minutes later.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Again this is contradictory information. This morning MSM reported the childs mother said Bianca spent the night at her dads and was supposed to be home by 11am this morning. Now dads side of the family is saying Dad was going to pick up clothing for his daughter and was going to stay at dads for a week. So which is it? And if the child was to stay with dad for a week why weren't clothes picked up for her last night? ...

Respectfully edited. BBM. That's an understatement! I'm disappointed in local news media for their inept coverage of this missing child case

 

[not_my_kids]

:waitasec: Let me see, someone carjacks a Grand Marquis?? Father pulls over in Detroit, MI as dangerous as that is? supposedly for a faulty tail light in the daytime? Two yr. old was visiting with her father and he was supposedly taking her home? Suspects ditch the car and keep the two year old? Light-skinned African American and another man are described as the carjackers? (had to take a second here, had a painful Susan Smith moment).

I will be glad to admit that I'm wrong and I hope that I am wrong, but this story stinks, totally stinks to me. I do hope that there is someone who has seen this baby alive today and I hope that there are surveilance cameras along this father's route and I hope that he requests a LDT and is given one, immediately.:banghead:

You are wrong in one little part. He didn't pull over. He was leaving his home at the time.

 

[PlainJaneDoe]

How noticeable is a broken tail light in the daytime, anyhow?

Only if it was cloudy or foggy, right? Earlier it sounded reasonable to me but I was picturing brake lights.

 

[not_my_kids]

But why take the baby? I could see them dropping the baby off somewhere and taking the car but why leave the car and take the baby? It just doesn't make sense.

If there was a carjacking, there's nothing saying they didn't dump the car and the kid. It is Detroit, after all. Someone sees them dump the car, and run off like their butt is on fire, gets curious, goes to check the car out, maybe see if they left the radio or some other good parts in it, and finds Bianca. It would be one of those out of left field scenarios, and to the best of my knowledge has never happened before, but...it is Detroit.

 

[Melanie]

How noticeable is a broken tail light in the daytime, anyhow?

I'm not car savvy, but I thought the brake light and tail light were different. the tail light is used at night when you turn on your lights, and the brake light used when you hit the brakes or used reverse.

I could be wrong though. Seems odd for someone to want you to pull over because of a tail light that's out. I leave that to the cops

MOO

Mel

 

[Geralyn]

I know to outsiders it seems as though a person wouldn't stop in Detroit if flagged over for a flat tire or car lights warning. But when you're a resident..in your own neighborhood/community, you don't always have that exact same perception, especially in daylight hours. JMO