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Police searching for missing 5-year-old boy

Monday, August 18, 2008
LYNN, Mass. -- The Massachusetts State Police and Lynn Police issued an endangered child advisory for a missing 5-year-old boy on Monday.

Giovanni Gonzalez was last seen on Friday, August 15 at 4 p.m. in the area of 2 Brightwood Terrace in Lynn.

He weighs approximately 40 pounds and is 49 inches tall with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing blue denim jeans, a red T-shirt, a silver braided chain and black Spiderman sandals.

He was carrying a black backpack that had the Transformers robot character on it, and which contained some on his clothes and toys. He has a faded skin pigmentation mark on the lower right side of his chest and a small scare above his eyebrow.

The child's father, Ernesto Gonzalez, 36, was arrested Monday and charged with child endangerment in connection with the boy's disappearance. Despite the arrest, Giovanni's whereabouts remain unknown.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or Lynn Police at 781-595-2000.

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO85292/

Dad of missing Lynn boy arrested for endangerment

Monday, August 18, 2008
The father of a missing Lynn 5-year-old has been arraigned on a child endangerment charge in connection with his son’s disappearance, prosecutors said.

Ernesto L. Gonzalez Jr., 36, was arrested today by Lynn and state police as cops continued the hunt for little Giovanni Gonzalez.

The youngster was last seen near his father’s home at 2 Brightwood Terrace in Lynn, at about 4 p.m. Friday.

Gonzalez was arraigned today in Lynn District Court, said Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett.

He was ordered held on $500,000 cash bail by Judge Stacey Fortes-White and ordered to return to court for a pre-trial hearing on September 17.

Blodgett said the investigation into the disappearance of Giovanni and his father’s potential involvement remains “extremely active this evening.”

The 5-year-old was wearing blue denim jeans, a red T-shirt, a silver braided chain and black Spiderman sandals at the time of his disappearance.

He was also carrying a black backpack with Transformers robot characters on it. It contained clothes and toys.

Police said he has a faded skin pigmentation mark on the lower right side of his chest and a small scar above his eyebrow.

No one from Lynn Police Department was available for comment this afternoon.

Anyone with information about the case should call 911 or Lynn police at 781-595-2000.

http://tinyurl.com/66lgqb

Bb…Found these comments here…I think the father's cousin is the lady referred to in the second comment. It does not look good for this little boy.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1113693

SelfImage
What happened to the story line that he sent the kid to Puerto Rico, where his other children are?

#356958 - Aug 19, 2008 7:31 AM EDT

NotstupidinMASS
This whole case stinks to high heaven but, comments the fathers cousin made are deeply troubling. "Everyone has problems but we never expected it to come to this" and refering to the son "He was a good boy, very loveable" This doesn't sound right to me at all. I do hope the LPD has a long and strenuous chat with this lady.
 
#357007 - Aug 19, 2008 8:14 AM EDT

There is a video here, but I am unable to get any more than this from the site...


Search for missing Mass. boy may turn overseas
[1 hour ago ]
(NECN: Stephen Iandoli, Lynn, Mass.) - As the search continues for a five-year-old boy from Massachusetts, authorities are looking into the possibility he may have been taken to Puerto Rico. Giovanni Gonzalez was last seen Friday in Lynn, with his father...

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/Search-for-missing-Mass-boy-may-turn-overseas-/1219152029.html

Latest says the Police took a dumpster away this morning.

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/Father-not-cooperating-in-search-for-missing-Mass-boy-/1219162285.html


18 min 4 sec ago
Father not cooperating in search for missing Mass. boy

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(NECN: Josh Brogadir, Lynn, Mass.) - Police in Lynn, Massachusetts are searching for a five-year-old boy who went missing over the weekend. Giovanni Gonzalez was in the care of his father, and now, the father is facing charges.

Authorities say he was last seen Friday afternoon in Lynn, Massachusetts. When his mother went to pick him up on Sunday, he was not there.

Police took a dumpster away this morning as evidence near the Brightwood Terrace Apartments, but wouldn't say why.

The boy's father, Ernesto Gonzalez, is in jail on $500,000 bond, charged with child endangerment. Lynn Police say he won't answer questions about the boy's whereabouts.

Giovanni is Hispanic, weighs 40 pounds, has black hair, brown eyes and a birth mark on the inside of his left ankle.

Police say Giovanni's father, Ernesto, had a cut on his hand when police first met with him and he has a previous conviction of assault and battery charges.

Gee wonder if Padillo is going to go and bond out this Dad too?

Hi bb...just wondering why if his father was always mad with Giovanni he would even take him for weekend visitation. Strange how he only recently wanted back in his life.

Search for missing Lynn boy now includes FBI, aircraft


By Thor Jourgensen and Jill Gadsby / The Daily Item

LYNN - District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett has confirmed neighbor's suspicions that missing 5-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez was with his father Ernesto Gonzalez before he was reported missing Sunday night.

"Everything tells us that the father and the son were together late Saturday afternoon," he said.

Ernesto Gonzalez is being held on $500,000 cash bail for allegedly endangering his son, who was last seen Saturday.

At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, State Police detective Elaine Gill said the FBI has now joined in the search for the missing boy.

Police interviews with neighbors described Ernesto Gonzalez, 36, of 2 Brightwood Terrace #2, as someone who "always seemed mad" and "seemed like a real jerk" in terms of his behavior with his 5-year-old son, Giovanni Gonzalez.

Brightwood Terrace resident Jason Fallis told police he saw Ernesto Gonzalez with a young boy on Saturday just after noontime. He said the pair were playing with a ball outside and when the boy kicked the ball down the street, Fallis said Ernesto Gonzalez cursed at the boy in Spanish. "He seemed like a real jerk," Fallis is quoted as saying to police.

Fallis also said Ernesto Gonzalez always seemed mad to him whenever he saw him outside with his son.

Another neighbor, Mary Laing, described Ernesto Gonzalez as "very quiet."

She told police that she heard a child laughing inside Ernesto Gonzalez's apartment Saturday night and also heard the sound of a television. When asked by police if she was certain she heard the sound of a child, she said, "I know what a child sounds like."
Lynn and state police continue to search for Giovanni Gonzalez and plan to step up that search Wednesday with the help of a state police air wing, which will fly over the city using infared equipment in an attempt to locate the boy, Blodgett said.

"We are actively searching for the whereabouts of the young boy," Blodgett said. "We did retrieve some items from searches and we have been conducting a door-to-door canvas with Lynn police and state police. In addition, flyers had been made up with pictures of the boy and the father and they were printed in both English and Spanish."

Giovanni Gonzalez's mother, Daisy Colon, 33, of East Boston, called police after Ernesto Gonzalez said the boy wasn't with him when she went to retrieve him Sunday from a scheduled visitation.

When police interviewed Colon Sunday evening, she told them that she and Ernesto Gonzalez had a Sept. 15 court appearance to iron out custody and visitation rights. She also said Ernesto Gonzalez had visits with Giovanni for the previous two weekends and everything went fine.

"Ernesto has been out of Giovanni's life, now he wants to be part of it," Colon told police.

Police said Colon told them that if Ernesto Gonzalez "messes this up" that she would make sure that he would not be able to see Giovanni again.

Suffolk County Probate and Family Court records show Gonzalez agreed in April 2006 to pay Colon $125 a week in child support after the state Department of Revenue moved on Colon's behalf to bring him to trial for child support enforcement.

The payment was outlined in a support order issued by Probate Court, in which Colon agreed to maintain health insurance for her son.

In June 2008, Gonzalez filed a complaint for custody visitation in Suffolk Probate seeking joint legal custody of Giovanni with Colon. In stating his reason for filing the complaint, he wrote: "Because I am the father of the child."

After tireless efforts to get Ernesto Gonzalez to tell police what happened Sunday night, Lynn and state police issued an "Endangered Child Advisory" late Monday afternoon.

State Police homicide detectives searched Ernesto Gonzalez's apartment building Monday night, while nearly 30 units from Lynn and State Police searched the woods near High Rock Tower.

Concern for the boy continues to mount in light of the fact that Ernesto Gonzalez refused to tell police how he suffered a noticeable laceration to his left finger and he has a previous conviction of assault and battery with a knife.

Lynn District Court records indicate Ernesto Gonzalez received a six month suspended sentence and probation stemming from 2001 charges involving multiple assaults.

On Aug. 4, 2001 police were summonsed to 444 Chatham St. where witnesses said they saw Gonzalez slice the tires of a minivan and then chase Michael Carreiro into the street.

Police officers Jennifer Cash and Stephen Pohle confronted Gonzalez as he wielded a folding knife. They told him four or five times to drop the knife as they aimed their weapons at him. He complied and Pohle sprayed him twice with pepper spray before wrestling him to the ground.

At the time, the police report filed indicated Gonzalez was born in Puerto Rico and working as a machine operator at Old Neighborhood Foods.

Gonzalez' court record dates back to juvenile offenses in 1986 and 1987 when he was charged with cruelty to animals. The charge was subsequently dismissed and the case closed.

Giovanni Gonzalez is described as a Hispanic male, weighs 40 pounds, is about 4-foot-2 and has a slight birthmark on his inner left ankle. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a red shirt and "Spiderman" sandals. He was also holding a black "Transformers" backpack.

Anyone with any information about Gonzalez should call Lynn police at 781-595-2000.

http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/articles/2008/08/20/news/news07.txt




 

This is too weird

Zanni  from the Italian dialectal nickname for Giovanni

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanni

Aug 20, 2008 1:12 pm US/Eastern
Police Search Cemetery, Woods For Missing Boy
LYNN (WBZ) ― Police are taking their search for a missing Lynn boy to the skies.

Investigators told WBZ's Karen Anderson they are using a helicopter to search St. Mary's Cemetery and the surrounding woods in Lynn hoping to find any trace of 5-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez.

There were no tips that prompted them to search that area, police said. They are simply searching as many places as possible.

Giovanni's mother, Daisy Colon, is asking the public for help in her desperate search for her son.
 
"My plea is for whoever has any information as small as you think, even if you think it's something that's nonsense, please come, because it could be a big thing for us to resolve this as soon as possible, so please come forward," she told reporters Wednesday.

"Whoever has my son, please, I'm begging you to let him go," Colon said before entering the Lynn Police Station.

"I'm going to be in the area, or just bring him to the police station or just tell him how to do it, and he'll be able to get there, because he is a very intelligent boy… Please let him go."

Prosecutors say Giovanni was dropped off at the Lynn home of his father, Ernesto Gonzalez, on Friday. When Colon went to pick him up on Sunday, the father said their son wasn't with him.

Police say Gonzalez, 36, has been uncooperative and charged him with child endangerment. He pleaded not guilty Monday and is being held on $500,000 bail.

Investigators are concerned for the boy's safety because the father has refused to explain how he suffered a cut on his hand.

"I don't understand why, how you could do something like that and not talk and not say anything," Colon said Wednesday, referring to the boy's father.

Police released a new photograph of Giovanni and Ernesto Gonzalez late Tuesday afternoon.

They hope someone will remember seeing them together between Aug. 15 and Sunday evening, Aug. 18.

Court documents obtained by WBZ indicate that Gonzalez has faced assault and battery charges in the past. He has been arrested three times - most recently in 2001, when he allegedly beat his girlfriend and then pulled a knife on police.

According to Colon, Gonzalez wanted nothing to do with his son until recently.

Giovanni is 4-feet-1 and weighs 40 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing jeans, a red shirt and "Spider Man" sandals. He was carrying a "Transformers" backpack.

He has a faded skin pigmentation mark on the lower right side of his chest and a small scar above his eyebrow.

Anyone with information is asked to call Lynn police at 781.595.2000.

http://wbztv.com/local/missing.boy.lynn.2.799203.html

Neighbors assist in search for Giovanni Gonzalez

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/Neighbors-assist-in-search-for-Giovanni-Gonzalez-/1219262813.html


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(NECN: Josh Brogadir, Lynn, Mass.) - Neighbors in Lynn, Massachusetts are helping search for a missing five-year-old boy. Authorities say Giovanni Gonzalez's mother dropped him off at his mother's house Friday. When she returned to pick him up, Ernesto Gonzalez said his son wasn't with him.

Ernesto is currently being held by police, charged with child endangerment. He is not cooperating with authorities, according to the police.

Neighbors say they are doing all that they can to help find the boy.

Police are not saying if they have any specific clues as to where the boy may be located, but they are saying they will not stop searching until he is found.

Giovanni's mother is currently speaking with investigators. She has a message for her son: Giovanni, call 911 if you are watching.

Daisy Colon vows to find missing son

August 20, 2008
The broken-hearted mom of a missing 5-year-old promised her boy yesterday she’ll never stop looking for him even as the Lynn dad refuses to cooperate with police.

“The only thing I want to say, Giovanni, is I miss you and love you so much,” Daisy Colon said. “I’m looking for you.. . . My heart is broken.”

Colon, who lives in East Boston, told police she allowed her son to visit his father, Ernesto L. Gonzalez, in Lynn the previous two weekends, pending a Sept. 15 custody hearing.

“Ernesto has been out of Giovanni’s life and now wants to be a part of it,” according to a police report obtained by the Herald. “She told him if he messes this up that she would make sure he would not be able to see him again.”

Colon dropped Giovanni off about 4 p.m. Friday at his father’s apartment at 2 Brightwood Terrace in Lynn for a scheduled weekend visit.

When she returned to pick up her son Sunday night, Gonzalez didn’t answer the door. Colon called police, who found the father alone in his apartment.

Gonzalez, 36, had an unexplained cut on his hand and told police he hadn’t seen the boy since the previous weekend.

He was charged with reckless endangerment of a child and held on $500,000 bail.

“The father is still not cooperating,” said Lynn Police Lt. Bill Sharpe. “We’re continuing to search every avenue for the child.”

Gonzalez is from Puerto Rico but has lived most of his life in Lynn.

Yesterday, police canvassed the neighborhood where he was last seen, and handed out fliers in English and Spanish with photographs of him and his father. State police also said a Dumpster near the father’s house was towed away yesterday to be searched for any evidence.

Giovanni weighs about 40 pounds and has black hair, brown eyes and a slight birthmark on his left inner ankle. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a red shirt and Spider-Man sandals, and carrying a black book bag containing other clothes.

Gonzalez has a criminal history that includes assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, destruction of property, and resisting arrest, according to police.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view/2008_08_20_Mom_vows_to_find_missing_son/srvc=home&position=also

Posted in Caylee’s thread by Altruist

http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=3280.1360

« Reply #1365 on: August 20, 2008, 09:29:05 PM »
The father denies that the child was dropped off to his custody.  The authorities were searching a nearby cemetary & woods for the child, this was announced on the local 5PM news today.  Nobody reported seeing the child with his father over the entire weekend.  This is heartbreaking.


   

Lots of videos on this case...I found the part mentioned above where the father said he didn't have Giovanni that night, but there are two witnesses that saw him playing in the street. Sorry can't copy.


Videos
http://multimedia.boston.com/pub/m/20725516/search_for_giovanni_gonzalez_in_its_third_day.htm?pageid=11

FBI joins search for Lynn's Giovanni Gonzalez

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(NECN) - The search has intensified for a 5-year-old boy who disappeared while allegedly visiting his father in Lynn, Massachusetts

The FBI has now been called in to help look for Giovanni Gonzalez and state police are using helicopters to scour the city for clues.

According to the Lynn Daily Item, the district attorney has confirmed neighbors' suspicions that Giovanni was with his father Saturday afternoon before his mother reported him missing on Sunday.

Ernesto Gonzalez is being held on a child endangerment charge, but so far he is refusing to cooperate with police.

Again, if you have seen Giovanni -- or know anything about his whereabouts, you are asked to call Lynn Police at 781-595-2000.

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/FBI-joins-search-for-Lynns-Giovanni-Gonzalez/1219314827.html

Last modified: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:44 PM EDT
 
The State Police searched Flax Pond in Lynn Tuesday in the hunt for 5-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez.
 
Cops continue hunt for missing Lynn boy

By Thor Jourgensen and Dan O'Brien / The Daily Item

LYNN - He won't discuss his missing son's whereabouts with police, but detectives are interested in Ernesto L. Gonzalez, Jr.'s public library computer use as they continue searching for 5-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, 36, used library computers and looked at books in the children's room on several occasions over the last year, according to library workers.

Theresa Hurley and her coworkers recognized the Brightwood Terrace resident as soon as they saw a flyer seeking the public's assistance in finding Gonzalez' son.

"He was a quiet, well behaved patron," Chief Library Nadine Michell said, adding, "The boy was never seen here."

Mitchell said a Lynn police detective asked library employees about Gonzalez' reading and computer habits Tuesday morning. As of Tuesday afternoon, police had not applied for a search warrant in District Court to access additional information about Gonzalez.

She said the library's ability to provide detailed information on books Gonzalez checked out or information he was viewing online may be limited. She said checkout records for library material are erased as soon as the book, compact disc or video is returned.

The library uses an anti-virus software called Centurion Guard that erases library computer memories.

"Once the computer is shut down, that memory is gone. It's like a needle in a haystack searching it," Mitchell said.

Mitchell thinks Gonzalez's trips to the children's room were aimed at improving his English reading skills. Recent police reports listed Gonzalez as a Puerto Rican native employed at Old Neighborhood Foods as a machine operator.

He is being held in the Essex County House of Corrections in Middleton, charged with child endangerment. Police and the boy's mother said Gonzalez took his son for a custody visit last Friday.

When Daisy Colon came to Gonzalez' apartment to retrieve their son, the boy was not there and Gonzalez denied having seen him over the weekend. Neighbors told police they saw father and son outside the apartment building Saturday afternoon.

Police hauled away a commercial-size Dumpster from in front of 2 Brightwood Terrace Wednesday and searched several parts of the city as the hunt for Giovanni continued.

State Police helicopters circled High Rock Park midday and flew over Pine Grove Cemetery. Dirt paths cut through the thick underbrush and trees growing on the park's slopes. High Rock borders a stretch of Essex Street three blocks from Brightwood Terrace.

Searchers also probed earlier in the day around the heights of St. Mary's Cemetery.

By early evening, police had mobilized a grid search in the downtown area.

Lynn police Lt. William Sharpe said representatives from the Lawrence Police drug unit had volunteered to join the search for Giovanni Wednesday night.

Giovanni Gonzalez is described as a Hispanic male, weighs 40 pounds, is about 4-foot-2 and has a slight birthmark on his inner left ankle. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a red shirt and "Spiderman" sandals. He was also holding a black "Transformers" backpack.

http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2008/08/21/news/news01.prt

So far no sign of Giovanni at Logan or at the Puerto Rico Airports.

Aug 21, 2008 3:40 pm US/Eastern
Search For Lynn Boy Expands To Puerto Rico
LYNN (WBZ) ― The search for a missing boy from Lynn has expanded to Puerto Rico.

Investigators tell WBZ's Karen Anderson FBI agents are reviewing surveillance video and talking to people at an airport there, hoping to find any trace of 5-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez.

Prosecutors say Giovanni was dropped off at the Lynn home of his father, Ernesto Gonzalez, on Friday August 15. When his mother, Daisy Colon, went to pick him up on Sunday, the father said their son wasn't with him.

Police say Gonzalez, 36, has been uncooperative and charged him with child endangerment. He pleaded not guilty Monday and is being held on $500,000 bail.

Gonzalez was born in Puerto Rico and has family there.

"My plea today is for Ernesto's family and for him to see if someone knows anything," Colon said Thursday. "Please talk, Ernesto, please.  It has been five days and we haven't heard anything.  I'm just asking him to please talk."

Investigators are also looking at surveillance tapes from Logan Airport and businesses near Ernesto Gonzalez's home in Lynn. So far, there has been no sign of the boy on any of the tapes in Massachusetts or Puerto Rico.

Authorities used a State Police helicopter and an infra-red camera to search in and around a local pond Wednesday.

Investigators are concerned for the boy's safety because the father has refused to explain how he suffered a cut on his hand.

"We're all missing you, Giovanni," Colon said. "We're all here.  Everybody's looking for you.  They're all doing their jobs, the police are here...So if anybody knows anything, please, I'm begging you to speak."

Giovanni is 4-feet-1 and weighs 40 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing jeans, a red shirt and "Spider Man" sandals. He was carrying a "Transformers" backpack.

He has a faded skin pigmentation mark on the lower right side of his chest and a small scar above his eyebrow.

Anyone with information is asked to call Lynn police at 781.595.2000.
(© 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

http://wbztv.com/local/missing.boy.lynn.2.800252.html

Search continues for 5-year-old boy missing in Lynn

August 21, 2008 01:22 PM
 


Ernesto Gonzalez, Jr., and his son, Giovanni Gonzalez. (Massachusetts State Police)

By John R. Ellement, Globe staff

Police in Lynn are spending another day scouring the downtown neighborhood for any sign of 5-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez who was last seen Saturday afternoon with his father, an employee of a city meatpacking company.

Ernesto L. Gonzalez Jr. on Sunday told police he did not know where his son was and has since refused to talk with police about Giovanni, who had been allowed to spend the weekend with his father by the boy’s now heartbroken mother, Daisy Colon of East Boston.

“We are still operating on the presumption that this young boy is alive,’’ said Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett, whose office along with Lynn and Massachusetts State police, have been leading the search since Sunday afternoon. “That’s what we are hoping.’’

Blodgett said police have already searched trash Dumpsters, apartments, surveillance videos, stores, restaurants, a nearby cemetery and Flax Pond near Gonzalez’ home address of Brightwood terrace without success.

They are repeating the process again today and using as many as 40 officers in the effort. He said four Lawrence police officers showed up Wednesday and volunteered to help. The FBI has spoken with Gonzalez’ relatives in Puerto Rico and they have told investigators they have had little contact with Gonzalez over the years, none of which was recent.

Blodgett said Gonzalez works for Old Neighborhood, a mainstay in the city, as a meatpacker. “The company has been very cooperative,’’ he said of investigators’ requests for information about his work duties at the plant.

Blodgett said Gonzalez continues to maintain the same stony silence he adopted when police located him on Sunday after Colon called for help to regain her son.

Gonzalez appears to lack both the financial and social resources needed if someone was trying to hide their child. He is something of an loner who does not own a car, does not currently have a girlfriend and is not known to have a wide circle of friends, the prosecutor said.

“We do not believe he had a significant other or friend that would be helpful in this regard,’’ Blodgett said.

Blodgett said the search will continue. “It is our duty to keep searching for him,’’ he said. “There is a lot of manpower still being spent on this case. We are hoping, and keeping ourselves optimistic that he is alive somewhere.’’

Gonzalez has pleaded not guilty to one count of child endangerment and is currently being held on $500,000 cash bail at the Essex County jail.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/08/search_continue_5.html
 

5-year-old boy's anxious mother waits for word on missing son

 August 22, 2008
The fate of a 5-year-old boy last seen Saturday with his father in Lynn remained unknown yesterday, despite public pleas from the boy's heartbroken mother and an intense police search of the city.

Giovanni Gonzalez had been allowed to visit his father, Ernesto L. Gonzalez Jr., last weekend and was seen by the elder Gonzalez's neighbors around 1 p.m. Saturday near the father's apartment on Brightwood Terrace.

But Gonzalez, 36, an employee of a Lynn meatpacking company, has since Sunday insisted that the child was not with him and has refused to disclose his son's whereabouts.

The boy's mother, Daisy Colon of East Boston, spent yesterday at the Lynn police station waiting for word on her son, authorities said.

>>>the complete article
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/08/22/5_year_old_boys_anxious_mother_waits_for_word_on_missing_son/

The father is employed in a meat packing plant........this fact is making me very nervous. ::MonkeyNoNo::

OMG me too

I'd just like to say his library info is interesting, I used to think we should have privacy there, but after joining my local library and seeing the things people are looking at there I'm now skeptical of this law.  I mean if people could see the books I read they'd think total nut job, but maybe the internet access is different.  Now to the the Popee (dad) could he actually read english, I thought he spoke through a translator? Was he just looking at pictures? Still pretty strange.

Report: Police found bloody mop at father's home of missing child
 Story Updated: Aug 22, 2008 at 9:05 PM EDT
LYNN, Mass. (AP) - Police looking for a 5-year-old boy said in a
search warrant application they found a bloody mop in his father's
Lynn apartment.

The Daily Item of Lynn reported Friday the search warrant
affidavit seeking permission for a follow-up search said the damp
mop tested positive for blood, as did a cleaning solution
container. It also said the father had "an open cut and a bandaged
finger," which he would not explain.

The documents said police also took kitchen knives, a computer
and cell phone from the apartment.

Ernesto Gonzalez has pleaded not guilty to a charge of child
endangerment. He's held on $500,000 bail.

Prosecutors say 5-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez was dropped off at
his father's home on Aug. 15. When the boy's mother went to pick
him up two days later, Gonzalez said the boy wasn't there.

http://www.cbs3springfield.com/news/morelocal/27299219.html

Investigators intensify search for Lynn boy
Roadblocks set up in neighborhood

August 24, 2008
Federal investigators and state and local police set up roadblocks yesterday in the Lynn neighborhood where a missing 5-year-old was last reported seen about a week ago.

The goal yesterday was "to see if people going about their routines, who have the same [weekend] routine, have seen anything," said Karen Dawley, a spokeswoman for Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett.

Shortly before 5 p.m., Dawley said she had heard of no new developments.

Authorities believe Giovanni Gonzalez went missing after being dropped off at his father's Lynn apartment on Aug. 15. When the boy's mother, Daisy Colon, went to pick him up two days later, his father, Ernesto Gonzalez, said Giovanni had never been there.

Colon has repeatedly asked the public for help in finding her son.

Colon spent yesterday handing out fliers and talking to people about her missing son. She encouraged anyone with information to come forward.

"If they know anything, any little detail. Any little detail they know, don't be afraid to come out and say it," she said speaking from her neighborhood, where she had stopped to update friends.

Colon has stayed positive about her son's chances. "Keep praying, because I still have faith. I still have faith he is coming home," she said. "Thank you for praying, those that I don't know and those that I know. Thank you for being there for me."

The search for Giovanni took a dark turn Friday, when police found a mop that appeared to have been stained with blood and cleaned with bleach inside Ernesto Gonzalez's apartment, authorities said.

Investigators also seized several knives and the cap of a household cleanser that appeared to be blood-stained.

During a search of the apartment earlier in the week, police had seized a laptop computer.

Gonzalez, 36, denies that he ever saw his son, has not cooperated with investigators, and refuses to discuss a cut on his hand.

He is being held on $500,000 bail and has pleaded not guilty to child endangerment charges.

Yesterday, as authorities continued circulating fliers about the missing boy, neighbors at the Brightwood Terrace apartments where Gonzalez lived said they rarely saw the man or his son.

"I never saw the kid until the police showed me a picture," said Kim Whitford, who lives in an apartment on the floor below Gonzalez's.

"As far as the dad goes, he really didn't want to talk to anybody, so he pretty much just kept to himself," Whitford said.

Neighbor Nick Arroyo, who has lived in the building about a month, said he recalls seeing Gonzalez with his son only a few times.

"He usually played around with his son," Arroyo recalled. "Both times I saw him, his son had a little toy car he played around with."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/24/investigators_intensify_search_for_lynn_boy/

I hadn't thought of that possibility.  ::MonkeyEek:: My husband has gone there to pickup loads (he drives truck) he said the place is huge and tons of people work there. 

Our local news www.wcsh6.com had this on their website......

LYNN, Mass. (AP) -- The search continues for a missing five-year-old boy from Lynn.

Local and state police officers, together with FBI agents, Saturday set up "informational roadblocks" in the neighborhood where Giovanni Gonzalez was last seen. They are handing out flyers and are seeking information from people who routinely travel through the area around Brightwood Terrace.

It is the latest operation of the weeklong search that has involved a dozen law enforcement agencies and Lynn city departments. Prosecutors said the boy was dropped off at his father's home August 15. When the boy's mother went to pick him up two days later, Gonzalez said their son wasn't there.

Police have found a bloody mop in his father's apartment, but officials say investigators still hope the boy is alive. His father, Ernesto Gonzalez, has pleaded not guilty to child endangerment. He's held on $500,000 bail.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

This is not a good sign..... ::MonkeyNoNo::

It made me nervous when I first read it as well...now the mop!

Teams Scour Cemetery In Missing Boy Search
Giovanni Gonzalez Missing For Week

UPDATED: 5:21 pm EDT August 25, 2008
BOSTON -- The search for a 5-year-old boy missing for more than a week focused on a cemetery in Lynn on Monday, the Lynn Daily Item said.

Lynn and state police used K-9 cadaver dogs in their search of Pine Grove Cemetery for Giovanni Gonzalez.

Giovanni was reported missing on Aug. 18 when the boy's father, Ernesto Gonzalez, 36, of Lynn, failed to return the boy to his mother, according to police.

Giovanni was brought by his mother to his father's home at 2 Brightwood Terrace in Lynn on Aug. 15 for a weekend visit. Police said Gonzalez did not return Giovanni to Daisy Colon, 22, of East Boston, at the end of the weekend.

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Lynn police scour evidence in disappearance of Giovanni Gonzalez

 By Jessica Fargen
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - Added 47m ago

Police are taking a fresh look at the case of a missing East Boston boy, 10 days after the adorable 5-year-old disappeared following a two-day visit with his father

“It’s an active investigation. They are going through the case systematically and making sure nothing was overlooked and trying to be as thorough as possible . . . as time passes, we become more concerned,” said Lynn Police Lt. William Sharpe.

Police have scaled back on the physical search of the area where Giovanni Gonzalez was staying and have refocused to review evidence gathered during the initial investigation, Sharpe said.

“The primary search is over. They are going through the case again,” Sharpe said.

Giovanni’s mother, Daisy Colon, dropped him off Aug. 15 at the Lynn apartment of his father, Ernesto Gonzalez. Two days later when she went to pick up Giovanni, Gonzalez told her their son wasn’t there, she told police.

A search of Gonzalez’ Brightwood Terrace apartment turned up a mop and a bottle of pine cleaner that tested positive for blood. Gonzalez is charged with child endangerment and is being held on $500,000 cash bail.

Police have passed out fliers in the Brightwood Terrace neighborhood seeking tips on Giovanni’s whereabouts. An “informational roadblock” set up in the neighborhood on Saturday yielded some tips, Sharpe said, but the investigation is ongoing.

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JamieLee
It's really good to know that it's on going but not good enough! Lynn is so big and you only see Lynn police in downtown lynn looking for him it's NOT good enough! What about where his father's family is? look everywhere and can some one answer me why did his father's cousin say "It didn't have to come to this!" she knows alot more than that anyone thinks you don't say something NO matter what unless you know something!
 
#364267 - Aug 27, 2008 12:00 PM EDT

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DA says he’s optimistic missing boy is alive

August 28, 2008
Test results are back from blood found in the Lynn home of a missing boy’s father and the district attorney says he’s “optimistic” the child is still alive.

Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett will not disclose the blood test results because of the ongoing investigation, his spokesman Steve O’Connell said this morning. But, Blodgett is hopeful that the adorable 5-year-old boy is still alive.

“We still have optimistic hopes Giovanni Gonzalez is alive,” Blodgett said.

Giovanni’s mother, Daisy Colon, dropped him off Aug. 15 at the Lynn apartment of his father, Ernesto Gonzalez. Two days later when she went to pick up Giovanni, Gonzalez told her their son wasn’t there, she told police.

A search of Gonzalez’ Brightwood Terrace apartment turned up a mop and a bottle of pine cleaner that tested positive for blood. Gonzalez is charged with child endangerment and is being held on $500,000 cash bail.

The frenzied local search for Giovanni will get a national boost this weekend when the crimefighting showcase America’s Most Wanted runs photos of Giovanni during its Saturday night broadcast, according to Boston’s FOX25 channel. The America’s Most Wanted Web site already has a Web page dedicated to the Giovanni investigation, including photos of Giovanni and his father.

In addition, Giovanni’s smiling face is featured prominently on the main Web page for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Yesterday, Lynn police said they had scaled back on the physical search of the area where Giovanni was staying and are reviewing evidence gathered during the initial investigation.

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Police plot strategy in hunt for boy

Lynn case to air on 'America's Most Wanted'
By Jonnelle Marte

Globe Correspondent / August 29, 2008

 About 25 investigators from the Lynn Police Department, the FBI, and State Police met for several hours yesterday morning to determine the next steps in their search for a 5-year-old boy who disappeared almost two weeks ago.

"We are pursuing it that he is still alive," Lynn Police Captain Mark O'Toole said during a news conference yesterday about Giovanni Gonzalez, who was reported missing Aug. 17 by his mother two days after she dropped him off at the home of his father, Ernesto L. Gonzalez Jr., 36. "We have nothing at this time to suggest otherwise."

Investigators have been distributing a missing person flier that will be aired tomorrow on "America's Most Wanted," a move detectives hope will draw national attention to the case. The flier shows a picture of a smiling Giovanni beside a police photo of his father, a Puerto Rican native with a dark goatee.

"We don't know whether he's still in Lynn, whether he's still in Massachusetts," O'Toole said of the boy at yesterday's news conference at police headquarters. "We don't know who he might be with."

O'Toole said police have no evidence to suggest the boy has been taken out of the country.

Detectives who searched the father's apartment became alarmed when they found a blood-stained mop and blood on the cap of a cleaning product, both of which were tested. Steve O'Connell, a spokesman for Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett, maintained yesterday that he could not discuss the blood test results because the investigation in ongoing. Investigators received the results Wednesday.

Among the items investigators took from Gonzalez's apartment were the mop and cleaner, toys, a knife, and lighter fluid, according to court records.

Giovanni's mother, Daisy Colon, reported her son missing after she got no response when she went to pick him up at Gonzalez's Brightwood Terrace apartment in Lynn.

Police later entered the apartment and found Gonzalez, but not the boy. Police have searched for the child in wooded areas, cemeteries, and empty buildings in Lynn.

According to police records, Colon told authorities that the parents had a verbal agreement to hold scheduled visits until Sept. 15, when they were supposed to go to court to work out custody and visitation rights. Ernesto Gonzalez Jr. denies ever having the boy and has refused to cooperate, though witnesses have told police they saw the father and son together the same weekend the boy went missing. The father has been charged with child endangerment and is being held on $500,000 cash bail.

Colon said yesterday that she believes that her son is still alive.

"I know and I have it in my heart, and I feel it that he is alive," Colon said in a telephone interview, her voice raspy.


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Sep 10, 2008 1:12 pm US/Eastern
Accomplice May Have Helped Kidnap Giovanni
LYNN (WBZ) ― Lynn police are looking into the possibility that someone helped a Lynn father kidnap his 5-year-old son.

Giovanni Gonzalez has been missing since Aug. 16 when his mother went to pick him up from a weekend visit with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez.

Police have always been looking into the fact there may have been an accomplice in the alleged kidnapping, the Essex County District Attorney's Office said.

Gonzalez has refused to cooperate with police and will not say what happened to Giovanni. He is being held on $500,000 cash bail on charges of child endangerment.

Gonzalez did not have a car, so police are now hoping buses and public transportation will offer clues into the little boy's disappearance.

A billboard with Giovanni's picture has been scheduled to be put up in Lynn's Wyoma Square. Clear Channel donated the space in hopes it will help with the search.

Investigators in Lynn say they have no reason to think that Giovanni is not alive despite a bloody mop being found at his father's home after the boy's disappearance. Upon his arrest, Ernesto Gonzalez had a cut on his hand that he wouldn't explain.

The search for the young boy has spanned throughout Lynn, including parks, cemeteries and lakes, and down to Puerto Rico where Gonzalez is from.

Giovanni's mother has pleaded to Gonzalez to talk to police.

Police urge anyone with information about Giovanni's whereabouts to contact Lynn police at 781-595-2000.
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Mother hopeful missing 5-year-old son still alive

LYNN, Mass. -- The mother of a missing 5-year-old is holding out hope that her son is still alive.

Giovanni Gonzalez has been missing for more than a month, and the boy's father, Ernesto Gonzalez, refused to show his face in court Wednesday.

Ernesto GonZales' constituional rights allowed him to steer clear of the courtroom. Gonzalez is being held on child endangerment charges.

"I was hoping he would come upstairs and say something," said Daisy Colon, Giovanni's mother. "I mean it's been 30 days."

The 5-year-old was last seen visiting with his father at his Lynn apartment.

An exhaustive search of the neighborhood has turned up nothing leaving investigators frustrated and developing a plan B

"We're now going back and reviewing what we haven't done and perhaps review what we've already done to do in a better way," said John Dawley, First Assistant DA Essex County.

Investigators are even following up on tips they say lack credibility, but they say they haven't given up hope that the little boy is still alive.

"We're obviously hopeful he's still alive," Dawley said. "We're hopeful we'll find the one tip or lead that will get us closer to finding him today, but again, we have to be realistic on our assessment."

The assessment includes investigating whether the child was left in the trash that the City of Lynn burns on a regular basis.

Investigators working round the clock on this case say they are now convinced Giovanni is not in Puerto Rico where his father's family still lives.
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Life without Giovanni   :smt022
September 21, 2008

Even when it comes, sleep brings no relief to Daisy Colon.

"Last night I dreamed somebody tied me to the bed, and I couldn't get free," she says. "The time was flying. The sun was going up and down, up and down, up and down. I was trying to call my mom, but all I could make was this noise."

She is helpless during her waking hours, too.

Five weeks ago today, Colon went to pick up her son Giovanni Gonzalez after a weekend at his father Ernesto's place in Lynn. They weren't there. She waited for them for hours, then called police. They found Ernesto, but there was no sign of Giovanni. The father denied having seen his son at all that weekend.

Desperate, incensed, Daisy confronted Ernesto at the police station. She demanded to know where her son was. Offered not to press charges. Begged him.

"You have him," he kept saying. "You have him."

And to this day, even after being charged with child endangerment and jailed on $500,000 bail, Ernesto has nothing more to say about the 5-year-old with the wide smile and the Spiderman obsession.

So Daisy Colon drags herself through the days, separated from her beloved child, frustrated, empty.

She forces herself to eat once a day. She chain-smokes Newports on her East Boston stoop. She hugs her daughter Angie, not yet 2, affecting cheeriness for her sake. She stays out of her son's room, where all of his toys are in a box in a corner because she can't bear to look at them.

She plays the same gospel song over and over in her car on the way to see the Essex County DA: "My soul magnifies the Lord. You're my strength. You're my shield." She closes her eyes at stoplights to take in the words. God has a reason for putting her through this, she says.

Every day, every couple of hours, she calls the DA and the Lynn police to ask if there's anything new.

There is nothing new.

Because Ernesto Gonzalez, sitting in his cell, says nothing.

"Do you think he might read this in prison?" Daisy asks. "If he's reading this, I want to say something that will catch his attention."

After 35 days, what could catch his attention?

She pauses, searching.

Finally, she settles on this: "You wanted to hurt me, and you did. It's killing me inside. But it's Giovanni's future, and he needs to show up soon. If you know where he is or if somebody has him, just put him somewhere public - a hospital, a post office, a police station, a mall - anywhere that he can say his name and where he lives."

Her heart tells her Giovanni is alive. Even when police found a blood-stained mop at Ernesto's place, Daisy refused to believe her son had been hurt. Investigators found that the blood was not Giovanni's.

"My mind has a lot of those thoughts, but my heart is straight on one thing," she says. "He's OK."

Still, he has missed out on the start of kindergarten at the Samuel Adams School. He must miss his precious Superman suit with the padded chest muscles. He must be asking questions.

As police follow a host of so-far fruitless leads, Ernesto seems ready to stay right where he is - saying nothing, waiting everybody out. He hasn't sought a bail reduction. He seems utterly disconnected, not even bothering to use all of his telephone privileges.

They can't hold him forever. He has a court date in November to answer the charges. Even if convicted, he faces a maximum of 2 1/2 years in a house of correction.

Maybe he's figuring 2 1/2 years isn't that long to endure, if it means getting away with whatever it is he may have done.

But every minute of Giovanni's life is precious. And for Daisy, every minute without him is torture.

The minutes pile up by the thousand, and the sun goes up and down, up and down.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/09/21/life_without_giovanni/

Judge denies lower bail for father of missing boy
September 26, 2008

SALEM, Mass.—A judge has refused to lower bail for the father of a missing 5-year-old boy.

Ernesto Gonzalez, of Lynn, is being held on $500,000 on a child endangerment charge. Prosecutors say his son, Giovanni Gonzalez, was last seen with his father more than a month ago.

A public defender asked in Salem Superior Court Friday for a reduction in bail to $14,000, arguing that the state has no probable cause to believe that Gonzalez put his son in any danger. But a prosecutor argued that Gonzalez would be a flight risk if released.

Judge Howard Whitehead declined to lower the $500,000 bail.

Prosecutors say the boy was dropped off at his father's home Aug. 15. When the boy's mother went to pick him up two days later, Gonzalez said their son wasn't there.
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Mom Confronts Dad About Missing Son
Last Edited: Monday, 29 Sep 2008, 10:36 PM EDT
Created: Monday, 29 Sep 2008, 10:36 PM EDT

FOX25's Bob Ward reports.
LYNN, Mass.  --  The mother of missing Lynn boy Giovanni Gonzalez says she went to the jail to confront the boys father, Ernesto. She told FOX25's Bob Ward that she asked Ernesto is he killed Giovannini, but Ernesto didn't answer.

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Giovanni still focus of police, lawyers

By Thor Jourgensen / The Daily Item
LYNN - His face is the picture of boyish glee beaming down on Wyoma Square, a reminder that the search for five year-old Giovanni Gonzalez is entering its fourth month.

The East Boston kindergartener has not been seen since his father's neighbors saw him playing outside 2 Brightwood Terrace on Aug. 16. His mother went to pick him up at Ernesto Gonzalez' apartment a day later and summoned police after she could not locate her son.

Ernesto Gonzalez told police he never saw the boy that weekend and, according to the District Attorney's office, he has not discussed the boy's whereabouts or fate since Aug. 17.

"It's a gut-wrenching case," said Michael MacDonald, a Lynn attorney all too familiar with missing children cases.

He represented Magdalena Rodriguez, the mother of Jesus De La Cruz, who vanished from Park Street on Sept. 28, 1996. MacDonald said Gonzalez' disappearance and his father's silence remain conversation topics in Lynn District Court.

"This is a little boy; he's the father. You hope he would do anything to help the boy. That's the moral issue. The legal issue is quite different," MacDonald said.
He said Ernesto Gonzalez' refusal to speak to authorities from his cell in the Essex House of Correction reflects the wishes of "any good defense attorney" to protect his client.

Another local attorney, Eric Jarosz, said the caliber of the two attorneys on opposing sides of the Gonzalez case underscores its seriousness. Top public defender Lawrence Maguire represents Gonzalez and prosecutor John Dawley has appeared for District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett on hearings involving Gonzalez.

Gonzalez pleaded innocent to a child endangerment charge on Aug. 18 and is due back in court on Nov. 18. Maguire declined to comment on the case Thursday.

Police, the DA's office and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children remain determined to find the boy.

Days after his disappearance, the Center posted appeals for help finding him in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico. The boy's mother told police on Aug. 17 that Giovanni wanted to visit a half brother on the island.

"That's our focus still," said Center senior case manager Gary Gardiner earlier this month.

Police searches in Puerto Rico have not produced leads to date but police have not abandoned search plans there or locally.

"We ask anyone with any information to contact Lynn police and help us bring Giovanni home," DA's spokesman Steve O'Connell said.

Daisy Colon also remains committed to finding her son.

"I don't let negative thoughts come to mind. I just try to stay positive."

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Nov 18, 7:13 PM EST
Trial set for father of missing Lynn boy

LYNN, Mass. (AP) -- A Jan. 13 trial date has been set for a Lynn man prosecutors claim is responsible for his 5-year-old son's disappearance.

Thirty-six-year-old Ernesto Gonzalez has been held on $500,000 bail on a child endangerment charge since his son, Giovanni, was reported missing three months ago. The father made his first appearance in Lynn District Court at a brief hearing Tuesday. His lawyer is asking that the charge be dismissed for lack of evidence.

Giovanni's mother, Daisy Colon, says she dropped her son off at his father's Lynn home in mid-August for a weekend visit, but when she returned to pick him up, Gonzalez claimed he didn't know where the boy was.

Steve O'Connell, a spokesman for Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett, said investigators are again asking for the public's help to find the boy.

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Father of Giovanni Gonzalez wants charges dropped

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The bearded, wild-haired Lynn father of a 5-year-old boy not seen or heard from in three months today demanded the state’s fragile case of child endangerment against him be dropped.

A hearing on Ernesto Gonzalez’ motions to dismiss is scheduled for Dec. 11 in Lynn District Court, where, still held on $500,000 cash bail, he briefly appeared today with his defense attorney Lawrence McGuire.

Gonzalez, 36, who stood shackled in a yellow T-shirt with his jaw locked, did not return the stare of Daisy Colon, 33, little Giovanni Gonzalez’ desperate mother.

Colon left the court, refusing to speak to reporters.

Gonzalez is expected to go to trial Jan. 13.

“The case remains under investigation,” said Steve O’Connell, spokesman for Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett. “We always hope for more information.”

O’Connell renewed prosecutors’ pleas to the public to come forward to Lynn police with any information that may help find Giovanni. They are also interested in knowing if anyone recalls seeing the father out alone the weekend of Aug. 15, when his son was supposed to be visiting him.

“We’ll follow every lead, we’ll spare no expense, we’ll spare no manpower to bring this little boy home,” O’Connell said.

Gonzalez is also asking the court to suppress as evidence any items investigators took from his apartment on Brightwood Terrace Aug. 18, including the boy’s toys, a bottle of cleaner, a mop head, trash bags and a knife that was found on the kitchen floor.

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Newspaper: Father says he killed missing son
November 26, 2008

MIDDLETON, Mass.—A man arrested after his 5-year-old son disappeared during an August visit tells a newspaper he stabbed the boy to death.

In a jailhouse interview Wednesday, Ernesto Gonzalez Jr. told The Boston Globe that after he killed his son, Giovanni, he dismembered the boy in the tub of his Lynn apartment and discarded the body parts.

Gonzalez said he didn't intend to kill his son, it just "happened." He told the Globe he loved his son and is "regretful."

Gonzalez has been held on $500,000 bail since his August arrest on a child endangerment charge.

Essex County officials were skeptical about the confession, saying there's no evidence to corroborate it.

His lawyer criticized the Globe for interviewing his client while the case is pending and said there's no proof Gonzalez harmed his child
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Dec 10, 5:25 PM EST

Lynn dad accused of misleading search for son

BOSTON (AP) -- A Lynn man held in the disappearance of his 5-year-old son has been indicted on charges of parental kidnapping and misleading police.

The Essex County grand jury indictment of Ernesto Gonzalez on Wednesday carries a maximum sentence of one year for the kidnapping charge and a maximum penalty of 10 years in for the misleading charge.

Last month, the 36-year-old Lynn man said in a jailhouse interview with The Boston Globe that he killed his son, Giovanni, and dismembered him in his Lynn apartment. Authorities have said they are skeptical of his story.

The boy has been missing since August when his mother dropped him off at his father's apartment for a visit.

Gonazlez has been held on a child endangerment charge, which prosecutors say will be dismissed.

His attorney did not immediately return a call for comment.

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Dad's confession baffles cops in missing-boy case

January 26,2009
LYNN, Mass. (AP) — For months, Ernesto Gonzalez Jr. sat in jail, refusing to say anything about the weekend last summer when his 5-year-old son, Giovanni, disappeared.

Then in November, Gonzalez broke his silence, telling a newspaper reporter a gruesome story: He stabbed the boy to death, dismembered him in the bathtub, put his remains in plastic grocery bags and dumped them in trash bins around the city.

The account baffled prosecutors, police and Gonzalez's lawyer — all of whom have said there was no evidence found in his apartment to corroborate his story.

The alleged confession also stunned Gonzalez's ex-girlfriend, Daisy Colon, who had spent more than three agonizing months pleading for word of her son.

"It's lies," Colon said recently. "Why would you deny having your son, then, after all this time, why would you come out and say something like that? He wants the attention. He wants people to stop looking for Giovanni, and that's not going to happen."

Police and prosecutors in this Boston suburb declined repeated requests for comment from The Associated Press. They have not said publicly whether they believe Gonzalez's account, whether they think the child is dead or alive, or why the father would have confessed to such a deed. The 36-year-old meatpacker has not been charged with killing his son.

In the interview with The Boston Globe, Gonzalez said that during a visit to his apartment Aug. 15-17, his son misbehaved by spitting, throwing bottles, ripping a bedsheet and jabbing him in the back with a pen.

On Sunday, the day Giovanni was supposed to go back to his mother, Gonzalez said, the boy was yelling when Gonzalez picked up a kitchen knife and stabbed the child.

"It happened fast," he told the Globe. "I was upset. It happened in a moment."

Gonzalez told the reporter he loved his son and regretted killing him.

Gonzalez's lawyer, Lawrence McGuire, said no evidence taken during police searches of Gonzalez's apartment backs up his story. "I would say the district attorney is skeptical," McGuire told The Daily Item of Lynn. McGuire did not return calls from the AP.

Some forensic experts said Gonzalez could have killed and dismembered his son the way he described, then used bleach or another strong cleaning agent to remove the blood. But others said it is highly unlikely he could have killed his son in such a ghastly way without leaving any trace.

"If someone shed blood and they cleaned it up, you can still find it," said Gary Rini, a former police officer and crime-scene investigator who is now a consultant in Cleveland. "The only way you are not going to find it is if they remove the surface upon which the blood was shed — period." In this case, that would require removing the kitchen floor and the bathtub.

Steve O'Connell, a spokesman for the district attorney, would not say what kind of testing police did for blood in Gonzalez's apartment or whether any new tests were done after Gonzalez gave his account from jail, where he was being held on child endangerment charges.

Two weeks after Gonzalez's alleged confession, he was charged with parental kidnapping and misleading police. The misleading-police charge was based not on what he told the reporter, but on his initial insistence that he had not seen his son the weekend he disappeared.

Colon said she and Gonzalez lived together until Giovanni was 2. She said she ended their relationship after Gonzalez swung a chair at her, hitting a cabinet behind her. While they were together, Gonzalez helped take care of Giovanni and never hurt him, she said.

After the couple split up, Gonzalez petitioned a court for visitation rights, and the boy began spending weekends last summer with his father.

After the first two visits, Giovanni chattered happily about how he and his father had gone to the park, colored and watched movies together, his mother said.

On Friday, Aug. 15, Colon dropped Giovanni off again. Witnesses said they saw the boy on Saturday, kicking a ball with his father, then accompanying his father to an appointment with a therapist. But when Colon went to pick up Giovanni on Sunday afternoon, no one answered the door. The next day, police arrested Gonzalez.

Authorities searched for the boy in Massachusetts, Florida and Puerto Rico, where Gonzalez and Colon were born and have family.

Police found blood on a mop in the apartment and said Gonzalez had a cut and bandaged finger he would not explain. But authorities later said the blood was the father's, not his son's.

Colon pleaded for Giovanni's safe return on television and on the Internet. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children put up thousands of posters. The case was also featured on "America's Most Wanted."

The 33-year-old mother said she firmly believes her son is still alive and thinks someone is helping Gonzalez hide him, maybe to punish her for ending their relationship.

"Whoever has him, just leave him at the police station or leave him somewhere where he can just say his name," Colon said. "I don't even need to know who it is. I just want my son back."

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Father of missing boy returns to court
By Associated Press
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - Added 2m ago

LYNN — A Lynn man charged in connection with the disappearance of his 5-year-old son returns to court to ask that charges be dismissed.
Ernesto Gonzalez Jr. has pleaded not guilty to parental kidnapping and misleading police. He is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
The boy, Giovanni Gonzalez, has been missing since August after he was dropped off at his father’s home. The father initially denied seeing his son the weekend he disappeared, but then claimed to have killed the boy and dismembered the body.

Police have said they have found no evidence to back that claim.
The boy’s mother, Daisy Colon, tells The Daily Item of Lynn that she still believes Gonzalez is working with an accomplice to keep her son hidden.
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Where the heck is little Giovanni?  I wish the news hadn't dried up on this case, it's really frustrating.

Praying for the little guy to be found safe.

Aug 17, 8:00 AM EDT

Mass. turns to DNA testing in missing boy case
 
LYNN, Mass. (AP) -- Massachusetts authorities have turned to a nationally renowned DNA testing company in an effort to help solve the disappearance of a 6-year-old Lynn boy a year ago.

The Daily Item of Lynn reports that prosecutors last week confirmed in court the delivery of DNA specimens linked to Giovanni Gonzalez's disappearance to CellMark Diagnostics, a company that touts itself as the "nation's largest and most experienced private forensic DNA testing laboratory."

The company was involved in the O.J. Simpson and JonBenet Ramsey cases.

The boy disappeared on Aug. 17, 2008 during a weekend with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez. He claims he killed the boy, and is being held after pleading not guilty to charges of parental kidnapping and misleading police.

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The 36-year-old meat-packer has not been charged with killing his son.


History..
Back in the day..
 Meat packers "Butchers" were first hired by Italian mafia figures to perform executions of enemies.
They proved to be a good choice because they could kill and cut up meat with no remorse or disgust and it made it easy to transport dead bodies that needed to be disposed of.
Those body parts usually ended up in landfills..




 

Thanks for the update. Perhaps with DNA they can match him to an Unclaimed remains.

Such a sad story.

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A year later, Lynn boy still missing
August 17, 2009 03:11 PM
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Ernesto Gonzalez, Jr., and his son, Giovanni Gonzalez.

By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff
 A year ago today, Giovanni Gonzalez was supposed to go home with his mother.

Instead, the little boy who vanished during a weekend visit with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez in Lynn, has been the subject of a yearlong search and an infuriating mystery. Gonzalez was arrested, and confessed in November to killing the boy in a jailhouse interview with the Globe.

But since then, the 37-year-old former meatpacker has pleaded not guilty to charges of parental kidnapping and lying to law enforcement. He has kept silent, locked up for 23 hours a day in a special segregation unit in Essex County Jail in Middleton, with one hour for recreation, as authorities await the results of scientific testing on samples from his apartment.

"This whole investigation, we’re sparing no effort, no expense," said Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett. "It’s still a search for the truth."

Earlier this month, Gonzalez's lawyer Lawrence McGuire waived his client's right to a speedy trial pending the outcome of scientific testing that is part of the investigation, according to assistant clerk Richard Deschamps and the District Attorney's office. The next hearing is Sept. 3 in Essex Superior Court in Salem.

After Gonzalez's confession, authorities executed another search warrant at his Brightwood Terrace apartment and have sent samples for scientific testing with the State Police and Orchid Cellmark in Texas, a private DNA testing company that has conducted testing in other high-profile child disappearances, including the JonBenet Ramsey case.

Giovanni's mother and authorities are still appealing to the public for any information about his disappearance. His mother hopes that he is still alive, and is publicizing a $7,000 reward for his return. Tonight, she planned a prayer ceremony at her home for him, deciding against holding a candlelight vigil.

"To me, having a vigil is like saying he is dead," said Daisy Colon, who lives in East Boston, today. "He’s not dead for me."

Ernesto Gonzalez's lawyer, Lawrence McGuire, was out of the office and could not be reached for comment.

The episode began during a weekend visit with Gonzalez that started Aug. 15, 2008. He had seen the boy only sporadically in the past few years, but had recently had him for two visits without incident, according to the police report.

Giovanni Gonzalez, who turned six in May, loved Superman and Spiderman, and was supposed to have started kindergarten last fall, was last seen with his father on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008.

Colon arrived to pick him up the next day at 4 p.m., as scheduled, but Ernesto Gonzalez did not answer her phone calls, which grew increasingly frantic. He did not answer when she pounded on the door. Finally, when fire officials entered through a second-floor window and found Ernesto Gonzalez, alone, with a cut on his hand, Gonzalez said he had never had the boy.

Gonzalez was arrested and has been held without bail ever since. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of parental kidnapping, which is punished by up to a year in the House of Correction, and lying to a law enforcement officer, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in state prison.

A few months ago, jail officials moved him to the "administrative segregation" unit at Essex County jail in Middleton for his own protection, because he is a high-profile inmate, said Paul Fleming, spokesman for the Essex County Sheriff's Department. Gonzalez is confined to his own cell, 23 hours a day, with one hour for recreation.

Defense moves to suppress evidence in Gonzalez case; DNA funds approved

WEEKEND EDITION: September 5, 2009
SALEM - The defense lawyer in the Ernesto L. Gonzalez case wants to suppress evidence taken during the four searches of his Brightwood Terrace apartment, saying the "warrants failed to establish probable cause and were illegal."

Gonzalez, 37, formerly of 7 Brightwood Ter., Lynn, stands charged with parental kidnapping and willfully lying to police in the investigation of his 5-year-old son, who disappeared in August of 2008 after spending the weekend with his father.

Defense lawyer Lawrence J. McGuire filed a motion out of court on Tuesday to suppress evidence seized when police executed the four searches at Gonzalez' apartment, two on Aug. 18, 2008, another Nov. 28, 2008 and one more on July 1, 2009

He contends the searches of the apartment violated his "client's rights and the warrants failed to establish probable cause to search the apartment and seize his property."

Although the affidavits filed in Lynn District Court have all been impounded, authorities seized evidence, including DNA and computer equipment during their searches on Nov. 28, 2009 and July 1, 2009.

On Thursday in Salem Superior Court, Judge Jack T. Lu set down Sept. 25 to schedule a hearing on the preliminary suppression motions. The commonwealth has sent DNA specimen samples taken during their investigation from the Brightwood Terrace apartment to CellMark Diagnostics, a private forensic DNA testing laboratory in Dallas, Texas, that is the most experienced private firm in the country.

McGuire was allowed funds so he can have his own expert present during the DNA tests at CellMark, which will destroy some of the evidence during their tests, but the tests are expected to hold up the trial.

McGuire informed Lu that "Mr. Gonzalez is concerned about the length of time this is taking."

The case should have been scheduled for trial, but due to the extensive investigation and DNA tests of specimens for examination, it is delayed.
On Nov. 26, Gonzalez made a jailhouse confession to a reporter claiming he stabbed his son, dismembered the boy's body in his apartment bathroom, packed the six body parts into plastic bags and threw the bags into three Dumpsters throughout Lynn.

Police and prosecutors have not discredited or affirmed the confession.

Daisy Colon, the boy's mother, believes her son is alive and that Gonzalez and an accomplice kidnapped her son so that Gonzalez could have sole custody of their child.

She also believes his confession was a trick.

The disappearance of the boy sparked an intense investigation throughout the city, but the boy has not yet been found after a year.

Gonzalez, who showed absolutely no emotion when in court, remains held without bail at the Middleton Jail. He has pleaded innocent to the charges.

Colon has offered a $7,000 reward for any information leading to her son's disappearance.
http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2009/09/04/news/news05.txt

Missing boy's father deemed fit for trial; mother still hopeful

Daisy Colon said yesterday that she does not want the people she believes are holding her 6-year-old son captive to be sent to prison. All she wants is his safe return.

Colon spoke one day after her former boyfriend was found competent to stand trial on charges of parental kidnapping and lying to authorities, the only charges so far brought against Ernesto Gonzalez Jr. for his alleged role in the disappearance of Giovanni Gonzalez.
Colon said she does not care if Gonzalez, 38, who once told a Globe reporter he killed their son, spends another day behind bars as long as he tells the truth about the child.

“All I care for is my son,’’ Colon, of East Boston, said in a telephone interview yesterday. “I know my son is alive.’’
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/29/father_of_missing_boy_is_deemed_fit_for_trial/

4.30.10

Boy’s blood in father’s apartment
Filings outline evidence found in jailed man’s Lynn apartment

Authorities investigating the 2008 disappearance of Giovanni Gonzalez have discovered the boy’s blood throughout his father’s apartment in Lynn, on a red-handled knife, on a piece of wood flooring, on the bathroom threshold, and on the cap to a bottle of pine-scented cleaner.

The latest evidence, outlined in court documents in January, deepens the mystery about what happened to the boy, who would turn 7 tomorrow.

Giovanni vanished in August 2008 during a weekend visit with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez. Three months later, Gonzalez said in a jailhouse interview with the Globe that he had stabbed the boy with a red-handled knife, dismembered his body in the bathtub, and scattered the remains in three trash bins in the city.

It is unclear what impact the new evidence will have on the case. Despite his confession, Gonzalez has pleaded not guilty in Essex Superior Court in Salem and is being held without bail in Essex County Jail in Middleton on charges of parental kidnapping and misleading police.

It is too soon to draw conclu sions, said Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett. Authorities are still awaiting test results on other items seized from Gonzalez’s apartment, and they have not upgraded the charges against the 38-year-old former meatpacker.

“This has been a very laborious process,’’ said Blodgett, who is overseeing the case with Assistant District Attorney Jean Curran. “We’re doing everything we can to make sure that we have all the evidence evaluated. I certainly cannot answer the question about whether the charge will be upgraded. That’s a possibility, but we can’t say that this time. We want to have all the testing back.’’

In East Boston, Giovanni’s mother, Daisy Colon, is holding out hope that her son is alive.

Colon discounted the discovery of Giovanni’s blood, saying the energetic boy often bled from cuts received while playing or riding his bicycle. The week before he visited his father, she said, he suffered a nosebleed.

She said she feared that investigators were giving up on the search for the boy.

“I feel like a lot of people have given up,’’ Colon said. “All the fliers that I put out, people have taken them down. You go to Lynn now, and you hardly see any of those fliers. It’s just frustrating.’’

Blodgett said authorities are investigating all leads. But lately the district attorney’s office has focused on scientific testing being conducted by the State Police crime laboratory and a private laboratory in Texas, which has dragged on for more than a year. Because a Superior Court judge has impounded the results of search warrants and other evidence, many of the case’s details remain a mystery.

On the day Gonzalez confessed in November 2008, a State Police chemist said she found Giovanni’s blood on the cap from the cleaner, according to information that was made public in court documents filed in January.

Two days after the confession, investigators swept Gonzalez’s apartment again, seizing several knives, bathtub tiles, drainpipes, two nylon bags, 10 pieces of wood flooring, DVDs, and a bicycle. Many of the items were sent to public and private laboratories for testing.

According to the court documents, a State Police DNA analyst determined in March 2009 that Giovanni’s blood was on a red-handled knife and a piece of wood floor in Gonzalez’s apartment. In April 2009, an analyst for Orchid Cellmark Laboratories, a private laboratory in Texas, found Giovanni’s blood on the bathroom threshold.

Asked why investigators did not find the knife and other evidence during the initial searches, Blodgett said that the confession helped them target their search, but that they had always planned to return.

“That’s why we kept [the apartment] secure,’’ Blodgett said. “We had every intention of going back in.’’

The apartment was sealed with yellow police tape for a year.

Although the boy’s blood has been found in the apartment, analysts caution that the information is too scant to determine what it means to the case. It is unclear how much blood was found, and whether the evidence supports Gonzalez’s confession.

“Given the nature of the crime, you would have expected to have found so much more blood,’’ said Richard Saferstein, a forensic science consultant based in New Jersey. “Maybe they haven’t published all the data yet. It may be premature to make any accusations or insinuations about this person’s involvement.’’

Giovanni’s disappearance has frustrated authorities since Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008, when Colon went to pick the boy up after a weekend visit, and Ernesto Gonzalez did not answer the door.

The Lynn Fire Department gained access to the apartment through an open window and found Gonzalez inside, with a still unexplained cut on his left hand, but without Giovanni.

At first, Gonzalez told police he did not have the boy that weekend, according to court records. He was arrested after Colon showed the police that she and Gonzalez had been in phone contact. Neighbors later said they saw him with the boy that weekend.

Gonzalez refused to speak to authorities for three months. Then, in November 2008, he unexpectedly broke his silence in an interview with the Globe.

In addition to collecting scientific evidence, authorities have also interviewed neighbors and combed a surveillance videotape of the area.

An employee at Lynn Behavioral Health Services told authorities that Gonzalez, with Giovanni in tow, visited her office on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008, for a counseling session. As they left, just after midday, she heard him tell Giovanni that they would go back to his apartment, a 10-minute walk away, to watch movies, according to court documents.

A man and a boy resembling Ernesto and Giovanni Gonzalez appear minutes later on a surveillance video taken from a camera located between the health services clinic and Gonzalez’s former apartment on Brightwood Terrace.

Gonzalez is walking ahead, followed by a small child dressed in shorts and a shirt.

In his confession, Gonzalez said he stabbed Giovanni on Sunday morning as he was misbehaving. Gonzalez said he regretted stabbing him, saying it just happened.

Gonzalez — who had two convictions in 2001, including for assault with a dangerous weapon, a knife — was deemed competent to stand trial in January, according to court documents. He is next due in court May 12. His attorney, Christopher Skinner, did not return calls for comment.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/30/boys_blood_in_fathers_apartment/

Man held in son’s disappearance reportedly considers a plea deal

November 27, 2010
The father of a missing East Boston boy is considering a plea agreement in connection with the child’s 2008 disappearance during a weekend visit in Lynn.

The development, disclosed this week in Essex Superior Court in Salem, could mark a significant shift in a case that has frustrated investigators since Giovanni Gonzalez, then 5, disappeared during a scheduled visit with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez, in Lynn.

In November 2008, Ernesto Gonzalez confessed in a jailhouse interview with the Globe that he stabbed the boy to death, dismembered his body, and disposed of the remains in trash bins throughout the city.

The 38-year-old former meatpacker has since pleaded not guilty to charges of parental kidnapping and misleading police and is being held without bail in Essex County Jail in Middleton.

Giovanni’s mother, Daisy Colon, urged authorities yesterday to fight a possible plea until Giovanni is found. She said a reward is still posted for the boy’s safe return.

“I still believe he’s alive,’’ she said in a telephone interview. “I’m not losing my faith that my son is alive.’’

Authorities conducted a massive search for the boy but found no trace of him.

In Essex Superior Court this week, Gonzalez’s defense attorney, Christopher Skinner, asked the judge for a conference on Dec. 29 to discuss a possible plea agreement, which was first reported by the Daily Item of Lynn. Skinner was unavailable for comment yesterday.

It is unclear whether the Essex district attorney’s office would support such a plea. Spokesman Stephen O’Connell would not comment on the matter yesterday, citing the ongoing investigation.

After the confession in 2008, authorities conducted new searches of Gonzalez’s apartment. Subsequent DNA testing found the boy’s blood in his father’s apartment in Lynn, on a red-handled knife, on a piece of wood flooring, on the bathroom threshold, and on the cap to a bottle of pine-scented cleaner.

Gonzalez had resumed weekend visits with Giovanni shortly before the boy disappeared. He had not been in his son’s life for a year because he and Colon differed over his approach to disciplining the boy. He and Colon had planned to work out a formal visitation agreement in court.

But that Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008, when Colon went to pick up Giovanni, Gonzalez denied having the boy that weekend.

Gonzalez was arrested after Colon showed police that they had been in touch by telephone, and later indicted on the current charges. Neighbors also said they saw Giovanni with his father that weekend.

For three months after his disappearance, Gonzalez refused to speak to investigators. Then, in November 2008, he unexpectedly confessed to a Globe reporter that his son had been behaving badly during the visit and that he lost control and killed him. Gonzalez said that he was regretful and that the stabbing just “happened.’’

Giovanni, who lived in East Boston with his mother and younger sister, has been described as an energetic boy who loved to play ball.

His mother dismissed the DNA test results that found Giovanni’s blood in his father’s apartment, saying that he often suffered cuts while playing. She said Giovanni had also suffered a nosebleed during a recent visit with his father.

Colon believed that she spotted her son in October 2008 walking down a Lynn street with a man. Police investigated the sighting, but did not find them.

Gonzalez had previous convictions in 2001 that included assault with a dangerous weapon, a knife.

He was deemed competent to stand trial in January 2010.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/27/man_held_in_sons_disappearance_reportedly_considers_a_plea_deal/

Judge tosses kidnapping charge in Giovanni Gonzalez case

Updated: Tuesday, 14 Jun 2011, 9:34 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 13 Jun 2011, 12:06 PM EDT

SALEM (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A judge on Monday threw out a parental kidnapping charge against a Lynn man who claimed he killed his 5-year-old son nearly three years ago.

Ernesto Gonzalez remained behind bars without bail on a charge of misleading police after Salem Superior Court Judge John Lu dismissed the kidnapping charge against him.

 http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/crime_files/crime_watch/kidnapping-charges-against-gonzalez-dropped-20110613 (http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/crime_files/crime_watch/kidnapping-charges-against-gonzalez-dropped-20110613)

Dad of missing Lynn boy charged with jail assault


http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/dad-of-missing-lynn-boy-charged-with-jail-assault-20111110  (http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/dad-of-missing-lynn-boy-charged-with-jail-assault-20111110)

Updated: Thursday, 10 Nov 2011, 10:32 AM EST
Published : Thursday, 10 Nov 2011, 10:32 AM EST
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MIDDLETON, Mass. (AP) - A Lynn man being held on charges he misled investigators searching for his missing 5-year-old son has been accused of assaulting his cellmate.

The Salem News reports that Ernesto Gonzalez was arraigned this week on an assault and battery charge stemming from an alleged attack on his cellmate late last month, in which he pushed the other man's face into a metal sink as he brushed his teeth, breaking facial bones and causing an eye injury that requires surgery.

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