Sierra Lamar (Credit: Personal photo)
Missing Morgan Hill girl Sierra LaMar,
Picture courtesy of her sister, Danielle LaMar
Volunteers register at Burnett Elementary School in Morgan Hill, Calif. to search for Sierra LaMar, 15, on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. LaMar disappeared March 16 while on her way to school at Sobrato High School. (Gary Reyes/ Staff)
Ann Sobrato High School, Morgan Hill, California
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA:
TOWN OF MORGAN HILL IS SOUTH OF SAN JOSE
AND 13 MILES NORTH OF GILROY (FAMOUS FOR GROWING GARLIC)
Sierra LaMar Search Moves Off-Road Saturday
The sheriff's off-road unit will use ATV's to search the South Coyote Creek Trail area Saturday
for missing Morgan Hill teen Sierra LaMar.
By Sara Gaiser / nbcbayarea.com / Saturday, Mar 31, 2012
Investigators will take the search for missing teen Sierra LaMar off road Saturday, Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office officials said.
The sheriff's off-road unit, mounted on ATVs, will search the South Coyote Creek Trail and the Cochrane Road to Bernal Road area Saturday, officials said.
The continuing search for LaMar, 15, follows the discovery Thursday of suspicious items near her home, including an empty box labeled "stainless steel handcuffs" and a couple of used condoms.
It is not clear whether the items, discovered by volunteer searchers with the KlaasKids Foundation at the end of Palm Avenue west of Santa Teresa Boulevard in Morgan Hill, are connected to the case, Santa Clara County sheriff's Sgt. Jose Cardoza said.
The items, found in an area where young people often congregate, are being analyzed.
Hundreds of volunteers have been scouring the area surrounding LaMar's home this week after sheriff's officials reclassified the case as an abduction and announced they had all but ruled out the possibility that the sophomore had run away. LaMar was last seen the morning of March 16 before she left for school but never showed up for classes.
Investigators later found Sierra's cellphone off of a roadway near her home around Dougherty and Palm avenues as well as her black, Juicy-brand purse, which contained a folded pair of pants and a T-shirt belonging to the teen.
Sheriff's dive teams with specially trained rescue K-9s took to the area's waterways to search for human remains and hundreds of volunteers have been participating in search efforts organized by The KlaasKids Foundation.
Founded by Mark Klaas, whose 12-year-old daughter Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her Petaluma home in 1993, the organization is managing the volunteers and deploying its own search-and-rescue resources to help find Sierra.
Anyone with information about the case
contact Santa Clara County Communications at (408) 299-2311
call sheriff's investigators at (408) 808-4500
or the anonymous tip line at (408) 808-4431.
Tips can also be emailed to tips@sheriff.sccgov.org.
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