10-18-2010, 01:15 AM
LA Times:
Frantic search for missing boy, 3, in Pasadena
Dylan Kurihara was last seen leaving a wedding with his father at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. His father, allegedly drunk, was arrested about 10:30 p.m. and told police hours later that he didn't remember the boy being with him.
October 18, 2010
Dozens of police officers and volunteers were frantically combing Pasadena neighborhoods throughout a cold, wet Sunday night for a 3-year-old who was apparently lost by his allegedly intoxicated father.
Dylan Kurihara is described as 2 feet 8, 35 pounds, with shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen leaving a wedding party with his father Saturday evening. The child was wearing a blue and brown checkered long-sleeve shirt and dark blue pants.
Joe Kurihara, 23, of West Covina lost track of his son after leaving the party in Pasadena. He told police he had no memory of the boy being with him.
"We're canvassing the area," said Janet Pope Givens, a spokeswoman for the Pasadena Police Department. "The 'knock and talk' is still going on."
Witnesses, including the boy's mother, last saw the child with Kurihara at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. The parents, described by police as an "on-again, off-again" unmarried couple, had been attending wedding festivities at a Masonic lodge.
Father and son were seen leaving a parking structure at Cordova Avenue and Euclid Street in a 2001 Lexus RX 300. The four-door silver SUV, with license plate 4UHY191, also remains unaccounted for.
The search for Dylan did not begin until Sunday morning, long after Pasadena police had arrested Kurihara about 10:35 p.m. Saturday. They found him walking alone near the 300 block of East Green Street, about a quarter-mile from the parking lot, Givens said.
Officers did not know that the boy was supposed to be withhis father, and Kurihara, who is accused of resisting arrest, made no mention of it.
When Dylan's mother didn't hear from Kurihara for hours, she began to call police stations and hospitals. She reached Pasadena police about 8 a.m.
"We checked our records and found the father was arrested for public intoxication," said Cmdr. Darryl Qualls.
Her call launched an intensive search. Dogs traced the boy's scent to the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center, about two miles from the parking garage, officials said.
Investigators also returned to the scene with Kurihara in hopes that he could retrace his steps or jog his memory. That effort was futile, Givens said.
Kurihara has two other recent arrests on record, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Baldwin Park police arrested him at 9 p.m. last Thursday for an unspecified misdemeanor charge and released him at 4:39 a.m. The same department had arrested him on another unspecified misdemeanor charge at 7:28 a.m. on Aug. 10, releasing him about three hours later. For each offense the bail amount was set at $1,155.
Kurihara is currently being held at the Pasadena city jail in lieu of $10,000 bail on a charge of resisting arrest.
"We want this search to go out as far and wide as possible," Givens said. "If somebody took the car with the kid in it, they could be in Vegas."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Pasadena police at (626) 744-4241.
Frantic search for missing boy, 3, in Pasadena
Dylan Kurihara was last seen leaving a wedding with his father at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. His father, allegedly drunk, was arrested about 10:30 p.m. and told police hours later that he didn't remember the boy being with him.
October 18, 2010
Dozens of police officers and volunteers were frantically combing Pasadena neighborhoods throughout a cold, wet Sunday night for a 3-year-old who was apparently lost by his allegedly intoxicated father.
Dylan Kurihara is described as 2 feet 8, 35 pounds, with shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen leaving a wedding party with his father Saturday evening. The child was wearing a blue and brown checkered long-sleeve shirt and dark blue pants.
Joe Kurihara, 23, of West Covina lost track of his son after leaving the party in Pasadena. He told police he had no memory of the boy being with him.
"We're canvassing the area," said Janet Pope Givens, a spokeswoman for the Pasadena Police Department. "The 'knock and talk' is still going on."
Witnesses, including the boy's mother, last saw the child with Kurihara at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. The parents, described by police as an "on-again, off-again" unmarried couple, had been attending wedding festivities at a Masonic lodge.
Father and son were seen leaving a parking structure at Cordova Avenue and Euclid Street in a 2001 Lexus RX 300. The four-door silver SUV, with license plate 4UHY191, also remains unaccounted for.
The search for Dylan did not begin until Sunday morning, long after Pasadena police had arrested Kurihara about 10:35 p.m. Saturday. They found him walking alone near the 300 block of East Green Street, about a quarter-mile from the parking lot, Givens said.
Officers did not know that the boy was supposed to be withhis father, and Kurihara, who is accused of resisting arrest, made no mention of it.
When Dylan's mother didn't hear from Kurihara for hours, she began to call police stations and hospitals. She reached Pasadena police about 8 a.m.
"We checked our records and found the father was arrested for public intoxication," said Cmdr. Darryl Qualls.
Her call launched an intensive search. Dogs traced the boy's scent to the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center, about two miles from the parking garage, officials said.
Investigators also returned to the scene with Kurihara in hopes that he could retrace his steps or jog his memory. That effort was futile, Givens said.
Kurihara has two other recent arrests on record, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Baldwin Park police arrested him at 9 p.m. last Thursday for an unspecified misdemeanor charge and released him at 4:39 a.m. The same department had arrested him on another unspecified misdemeanor charge at 7:28 a.m. on Aug. 10, releasing him about three hours later. For each offense the bail amount was set at $1,155.
Kurihara is currently being held at the Pasadena city jail in lieu of $10,000 bail on a charge of resisting arrest.
"We want this search to go out as far and wide as possible," Givens said. "If somebody took the car with the kid in it, they could be in Vegas."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Pasadena police at (626) 744-4241.