A Clayton County 14-year-old kidnapping victim has been found, some 34 hours after she was abducted from her family’s home by masked gunmen.
Clayton County police Chief Gregory Porter said early Wednesday afternoon that Ayvani Hope Perez had been found safe “at a location in Conyers.”
“She has been reunited with her family,” Porter said.
Porter said two people are in custody and investigators are “looking at some other suspects.”
The FBI identified the suspects in custody as Wildrego Jackson of Atlanta and 40-year-old Juan Alberto Contreras-Rodriguez, Mexican national who is being held on immigration-related charges.
According to state Department of Corrections records, Jackson, 29, was released from state prison in 2007 after serving time for several drug-related convictions. Jackson was released from the Fulton County Jail on July 19 after being arrested on numerous charges including aggravated stalking and theft-by-receiving.
Monday’s early morning abduction, by two men who broke into the family’s Ellenwood home through a back door and demanded money and jewelry, touched off a massive search that ended around noon Wednesday.
Porter said that “over 150 personnel” were involved in the search for the teen and her abductors. He said the teen had been held in the metro area during the time she was missing.
Rick Maxwell, assistant special agent in charge with the FBI’s Atlanta office, said the two suspects in custody are not the two depicted in sketches released Tuesday of the men who abducted the girl.
“We believe those two suspects in the drawings are still at large,” Maxwell said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference. “Anyone with any information relating to those two suspects, we still ask that they call the same tip line that we provided before.” That number is 770-477-3513.
Source: AJC
