SEP 9, updated SEP 10, 2019
Española girl, 5, missing two days; suspect in custody
Searchers head out over open land north of Española Valley High School in search of missing 5-year-old Renezmae Calzada Monday afternoon. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
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“We’re pretty sure it wasn’t a parental abduction,” said Lujan.
Renezmae was reported missing by her mother about 6 p.m. Sunday, authorities said. The delay between when she was last seen and when she was reported missing is part of “an ongoing investigation,” according to the sheriff.
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Shortly before 3 p.m. Monday, members of the girl’s immediate and extended family had gathered with other people on El Llano Road north of Española High School to begin a search of the open country of mostly bare hills and gullies east of town.
The group had numerous private all-terrain vehicles, and Española Fire Department ATVs were also being used. Several people just took off walking through the brush close to the road, then over a hill into the brown landscape.
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Pablo Montoya of the Fire Department said the group was “just doing kind of a search from some information gathered from the family.” Montoya added that authorities otherwise had no details suggesting a specific area to look for the missing girl.
James Langenberg, chief of the FBI’s New Mexico division, said at an afternoon news conference that the FBI had sent “scores” of agents and other personnel, including specialists in evidence response, behavioral analysis and tracking social media to Española to assist in the case.
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Langenberg said it was not unusual for the FBI to get involved in an Amber Alert disappearance. “We reached out to the sheriff’s office and offered our assistance,” he said.
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The Red Cross was also part the search effort, providing food and water for searchers from a base at the Ohkay Owingeh casino. The Red Cross said in a news release that it was also assisting family members “directly involved with this ongoing missing person case.”
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