02-07-2011, 06:45 PM
i am going to bump this until he is found. WHERE THE HELL IS TEXAS EQUUSEARCH?? they will come in on request from LE or family.
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas -- Since 18-month-old Joshua Davis' parents reported he wandered away from their home on Friday night, New Braunfels police, community members and the Texas Rangers have gone to great lengths to search for him.
However, his grandfather, Jerome Davis, is wondering why an Amber Alert was never issued.
"They're saying it's not enough information to go on, but why not? The baby's missing. We need to find him," he said.
While Amber Alerts are issued in many missing children cases, investigators said this case didn't meet all the criteria.
The five guidelines investigators have to meet include:
# Confirming an abduction
# The risk of injury or death
# A suspect's description
# The child's age
# The case must be flagged as a child abduction in the National Crime Database.
Lt. Mike Penshorn, with the New Braunfels Police Department, said investigators did try to file for the alert but were turned down.
"Being that we did not have any suspicious vehicles, suspicious persons or anything to lead us (to think) that it was an abduction, when we did send the information to conduct an Amber Alert, that was part of the criteria that it said that it did not meet," he said.
However, he said police did get the word out by phone using the emergency notification system. Penshorn said about 2,400 homes in the area received several phone messages shortly after Joshua was reported missing on Friday night.