12-05-2011, 06:25 PM
the Detroit News— The father of a missing 2-year-old girl has hired an attorney and has stopped cooperating with investigators, a police source told The Detroit News.
Investigators have been working to corroborate the story told by Dandre Lane, father of Bianca Jones, who claimed he was carjacked at gunpoint Friday morning with his daughter still in the backseat of his 2004 Mercury Grand Marquis near Brush and Carter streets, just north of East Grand Boulevard.
The car was recovered a few minutes after police responded to the call, but Bianca was gone.
Police have been holding Lane on an outstanding traffic warrant while they investigate whether his story checks out. The FBI flew a polygraph expert into Detroit. A source told The News that Lane scored poorly when asked two specific questions: "Did you have anything to do with her disappearance?" and "Do you know where she is now?"
It took Lane nearly an hour to come up with a description of the man he said carjacked him, sources said. Lane appeared to be cooperative during the early stages of the investigation, but a source told The News Monday afternoon: "He lawyered up and quit talking."
Police took several items from Lane's home on Mitchell Street near Seven Mile Road during searches Friday and Saturday, but have not yet found anything of evidentiary value, sources said.
Contrary to an earlier report, the FBI did not search Bianca Jones' home today.
Meanwhile, investigators have obtained surveillance camera footage in an attempt to corroborate Lane's carjacking report, sources said.
Lane is seen on a school surveillance tape dropping off a 15-year-old nephew at approximately 8:10 a.m. Friday.
Police interviewed the nephew, who said Bianca was in the car when he arrived at school.
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