01-10-2011, 05:59 PM
there is NOTHING out there. no news at all. i've emailed the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to ask the status of this case.
NAPLES FLA. — Shannon Little’s heart is tied to her telephone.
Days after the abduction of her 10-year-old boy, Everett, she awaits the call that he’s safe and is on his way home.
“Every time it rings, my heart jumps a little bit,” she said.
A national search is now on for Everett and his father, Neil Little, of Naples. Authorities say Neil Little failed to deliver the boy to a Fort Myers custody exchange with his ex-wife, Shannon Little, on Sunday.
Neil Little, 46, is wanted by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office on a warrant for interference with custody, a third-degree felony. Detectives with the agency’s Major Crimes Unit believe the pair is in a green 1997 Chevy Tahoe with Florida tag 111YVI.
They say the truck may be towing Little’s pop-up camper and that father and son could be traveling from campsite to campsite. A recent tip placed them in Alabama.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is involved in the case, and law enforcement agencies nationwide are being alerted about Everett and his father, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tony Schall said. The boy is not believed to be in any danger, he added.
Everett Little is 5-foot-2, 160 pounds, with blonde hair, brown eyes and glasses. He’ll turn 11 in November.
Shannon Little, 40, says her son loves to read, and that he enjoys TV shows like “MythBusters.”
“He’s very smart,” she said. “His vocabulary is out of this world.”
Since his parents’ divorce in March, Everett has lived with his mother in Fort Myers and spent second and fourth weekends with his father, who lives with a girlfriend in Golden Gate Estates.
The most recent visit between father and son fell under new, and potentially troubling, circumstances. On Sept. 27, the judge overseeing the Littles’ divorce issued a writ of bodily attachment for Neil Little, an order demanding he be detained by Sheriff’s deputies and brought before the court.
Little had failed to follow the custody plan, his ex-wife said, and he never showed up for a mediation. Fearing the influence of the writ on her ex-husband, Shannon Little said she asked the judge, Lee Circuit Judge John Carlin, to cancel her ex-husband’s share of custody. He declined to do so, she said.
Everett visited his father on Friday, Oct. 8. For his scheduled return on Oct. 10, Shannon Little asked that a deputy be present at the exchange.
“I requested the deputy because there was already a warrant out for Neil’s arrest for something, for contempt,” she said. “And I was in fear all weekend. Ever since the divorce became final in March, I’ve been afraid this would happen.”
The plan may have backfired. Moments after the scheduled exchange, Neil Little called his ex-wife and told her he saw the deputy, a Sheriff’s Office report said. He then “threatened to kill her and her parents if she did not rescind the writ.”
When Everett failed to show up at Villas Elementary School on Monday, Carlin issued a warrant for Neil Little’s arrest on the felony charge.
Shannon Little said her ex-husband called her the following day, Oct. 12, with another warning.
“If all warrants and injunctions are not lifted within two weeks, you will never see your son again,” he said, according to the report.
Today, the mother’s calls to Everett and her ex-husband go to voicemail. She hasn’t spoken to her son in nearly two weeks, she said, and her doubts about his safety grow with time.
She awaits word from the Sheriff’s Office. Each ring of the phone may be the one she wants, Little told a reporter.
“Hold on,” she said. “I’ve got another call.”
Those with information about this case are asked to call the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at 239-477-1000 or Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS. Tips can also be made online at www.swflcrimestoppers.org
NAPLES FLA. — Shannon Little’s heart is tied to her telephone.
Days after the abduction of her 10-year-old boy, Everett, she awaits the call that he’s safe and is on his way home.
“Every time it rings, my heart jumps a little bit,” she said.
A national search is now on for Everett and his father, Neil Little, of Naples. Authorities say Neil Little failed to deliver the boy to a Fort Myers custody exchange with his ex-wife, Shannon Little, on Sunday.
Neil Little, 46, is wanted by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office on a warrant for interference with custody, a third-degree felony. Detectives with the agency’s Major Crimes Unit believe the pair is in a green 1997 Chevy Tahoe with Florida tag 111YVI.
They say the truck may be towing Little’s pop-up camper and that father and son could be traveling from campsite to campsite. A recent tip placed them in Alabama.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is involved in the case, and law enforcement agencies nationwide are being alerted about Everett and his father, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tony Schall said. The boy is not believed to be in any danger, he added.
Everett Little is 5-foot-2, 160 pounds, with blonde hair, brown eyes and glasses. He’ll turn 11 in November.
Shannon Little, 40, says her son loves to read, and that he enjoys TV shows like “MythBusters.”
“He’s very smart,” she said. “His vocabulary is out of this world.”
Since his parents’ divorce in March, Everett has lived with his mother in Fort Myers and spent second and fourth weekends with his father, who lives with a girlfriend in Golden Gate Estates.
The most recent visit between father and son fell under new, and potentially troubling, circumstances. On Sept. 27, the judge overseeing the Littles’ divorce issued a writ of bodily attachment for Neil Little, an order demanding he be detained by Sheriff’s deputies and brought before the court.
Little had failed to follow the custody plan, his ex-wife said, and he never showed up for a mediation. Fearing the influence of the writ on her ex-husband, Shannon Little said she asked the judge, Lee Circuit Judge John Carlin, to cancel her ex-husband’s share of custody. He declined to do so, she said.
Everett visited his father on Friday, Oct. 8. For his scheduled return on Oct. 10, Shannon Little asked that a deputy be present at the exchange.
“I requested the deputy because there was already a warrant out for Neil’s arrest for something, for contempt,” she said. “And I was in fear all weekend. Ever since the divorce became final in March, I’ve been afraid this would happen.”
The plan may have backfired. Moments after the scheduled exchange, Neil Little called his ex-wife and told her he saw the deputy, a Sheriff’s Office report said. He then “threatened to kill her and her parents if she did not rescind the writ.”
When Everett failed to show up at Villas Elementary School on Monday, Carlin issued a warrant for Neil Little’s arrest on the felony charge.
Shannon Little said her ex-husband called her the following day, Oct. 12, with another warning.
“If all warrants and injunctions are not lifted within two weeks, you will never see your son again,” he said, according to the report.
Today, the mother’s calls to Everett and her ex-husband go to voicemail. She hasn’t spoken to her son in nearly two weeks, she said, and her doubts about his safety grow with time.
She awaits word from the Sheriff’s Office. Each ring of the phone may be the one she wants, Little told a reporter.
“Hold on,” she said. “I’ve got another call.”
Those with information about this case are asked to call the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at 239-477-1000 or Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS. Tips can also be made online at www.swflcrimestoppers.org