To do it, another big case
comes up and so RCID folks have
just been really, really busy.
We're we're really proud of the
work that they've been doing,
and so we wanted to brief you all
up on a couple of developments
from over the last couple of days.
Let me start out with a a case of
a missing child that was recovered.
And then an arrest that was made
as a result of that case a couple
several days ago, late October.
In fact, we received a call for report
of a missing 15 year old female.
I will not be providing the name
of that young lady,
being that the suspect that she was
found to be in in the custody of has
been arrested for sexual assault of a child,
among other charges.
And of course I'll.
I'll give you his name here shortly,
but we won't be giving the name of that
victim other than to say that that she has.
Been recovered and she is safe
with family at this point,
but we do know is that our CID
unit and are missing persons.
Group has been literally working around
the clock on this case over the over
the course of the past couple of days.
They the investigation LED them to the
house in northeast Bear County where a
suspect 22 year old Salim Assad Hartshorn,
22 years of age,
was found.
In a house actually not far from where
this young lady disappeared from
hartshorn and initially initially
told us that she was not there,
he didn't know who we were talking about.
However,
another resident in the home
let us know that she was there,
and so we were able to get her recovered.
Assad a harsh word.
Hartshorn faces two charges
harboring a runaway child,
which is a Class A misdemeanor
and sexual assault of a child,
which is a second degree felony.
We are just really,
really happy to be able to get this
young lady back it back home safely.
Of course we will.
You know be following through
on this case if anybody.
Does anybody have any questions on it?
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let me let me give you one staff that
we have discussed at length over the
last couple of days and investigating
this case was just kind of given.
Anecdotally, an observation on the
part of some of the folks in C ID,
and you know,
obviously I don't really know
what to say about this statistic
other than it's scary statistic,
and I I wish I knew more to to say more
to be able to explain why it exists,
but let me let me just give
you some of these numbers.
They're really quite sobering up as
of today from October 1st to today,
we have received about 155
calls for missing persons.
For missing adults that
could be children and adults,
they just told me that there
had been an uptick.
I can tell you that the that since then
just over the past couple of weeks,
you know we've got 155 calls.
Same time period.
Last year we had 68,
so that tells me that those
numbers are up drastically.
I don't know why.
I wish I could.
OfferUp more of an explanation on why,
but but all we can do is concentrate
on raising awareness at this point.
We don't know if this is just a one of those.
Those statistics,
that's a fluke that that it's on the
uptick now and at some point it'll
it'll come down without rhyme or reason.
But what we can tell you is just
some some basic tips that we give to
parents when it comes to preventing
runaways preventing preventing
victims of human trafficking,
especially among youngsters.
Be wary of who they're associating
with in person and on social media.
You know,
we just a couple of days ago
gave a presentation at.
Young Women's Leadership Academy
with Ransome life which is our
our lures and lies presentation
that we do for young folks.
We also do those presentations
for parents and for educators.
We give a lot of tips on how to avoid.
Like our children running away and thereby
becoming victims of domestic violence,
we know that the vast majority of runaways
within four days of of them disappearing,
the vast majority of upwards of 98% of
them will be approached by a trafficker.
We also know that once they
enter that world of trafficking,
we only stand about a 2%
chance of getting them back,
and so it's a.
It's a very very scary thing for us,
especially in light of knowing
that our numbers are so so high.
Right now so.
If you would like to host one
of those.
Human trafficking seminars.
That we do with ransom live.
You can email us at stop human trafficking
at bear.org and we'd be happy to
do one of those virtually via zoom.
Or we can also do them in person.
Quite frankly, we don't care if
there's two people in the room
or in the chat room or 102.
We just want people to have
that information, so again,
that that email that you can send an
email to requesting a presentation
stop human trafficking at bear.org.
Michael Bourn I guess you got a question
on was the teen victim being trafficked?
At this point? We don't have any
indicators that she was trafficked,
but let me let me start out by saying this,
UM, traffickers sometimes don't
start out right away trafficking.
Sometimes it starts out as a sexual
relationship in the child's mind.
It's a romantic relationship.
This person loves them and doesn't
you know showers them with gifts
and affection and grooms them.
They may take during that.
During that time period
that courtship period,
they may take pornographic pictures of
that child or videos of that child that
is then used to extort that child into
the world of trafficking right now.
So you know,
quite frankly at this point,
I wish we had gotten her back
sooner than than that,
then that sexual activity
or sexual assault occurring,
but at this point we do believe that
we got her back before it devolved
even further into something like.
Trafficking,
but that's that is certainly something
that we always need to be on the lookout for.
Again,
this young lady is back home safe and sound.
You know,
we certainly hope that that she
can get her life back together.
And you can get beyond this.
What what happened to her?
Obviously,
we know she'll never be back to
100% the way she was before hand,
but we certainly hope that she can try
to find some normalcy moving forward.
And certainly it.
It brings us a great amount of satisfaction,
knowing that silly Mossad
hartshorn is behind bars.
Are there any questions on that case?
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Any other questions on that case?
Yeah, they share. Sorry,
I just I would like you to talk a little
bit about the bigger picture here.
You said that missing person
cases are on the rise.
Could you talk more about the
circumstances behind those missing
person cases and kind of talked about?
I mean, was the number so low last
year because of the pandemic?
Can you give us some more perspective on that
that we don't? We don't know.
Really is there? Is there a?
I mean obviously we we know that that last
year during the pandemic that probably
added to why the number was so low?
I'd like to see where we were in
years past prior to that I have.
I don't have that information in front of me.
What I can tell you is it
appears that they're up now.
Now we don't know if this is just a
slight uptick that like many crimes,
it cycles up.
It's like goes down and
and sometimes we don't.
We're left wondering why did that
jump up all of a sudden and then
come right back down all of a sudden
so we may not know those reasons.
It could be because we were sitting
talking about it this morning when
we were getting briefed up by R CID.
Folks.
It could be because report cards
just came out and and kiddos
are feeling like they're getting
like they might get in trouble.
And so they run from home.
Obviously,
we know that there's probably a child
running from home because of bad grades.
There may be other issues occurring
in that child's home life that
would that would lead it to lead.
Lead it to that that situation to
where a child is is running away.
So I don't want people to freak out that.
Oh my gosh, my child got a bad grade.
They're going away from home.
Run away from home.
There may be some other underlying issues.
Of course it could be because
the holidays are approaching.
That's one of the factors that that
RC ID folks were telling us that
that could be a driver behind it.
We may never know,
and there may be no rhyme or reason for
why we're seeing such a dramatic uptick.
But we do know that there is an uptick.
And So what we do at that point is we
try to attack it with public awareness,
and we just let people know that look,
you've got to be on the lookout for this.
This young lady.
Was literally just down the street
from where she lives and and this
this suspect had success in hiding
her away for several weeks and
she was literally right there
under the nose of her families.
They didn't even know that this
guy existed in in conducting a
search of the young lady's home.
One of our detectives found a note
where where she and and this suspect
had been talking back and forth and
we found his name in that that letter,
but other than that.
Parents didn't even know that
this guy existed,
much less than he lived up the street,
much less that he had their
daughter in his home.
And so that's a scary, scary thing that.
This young lady's been gone
for a couple weeks.
She there she was right there by her house.
Imagine if she was halfway
across the country or halfway
around the world which we know
that that occurs in the world of
trafficking and again we know
that once they enter that world
as a victim of trafficking.
We may never see them again.
We stand a very high chance
of never seeing them again,
even under the best of circumstances.
What about some of the circumstances behind
some of the other missing person cases?
Could you? Do you have any details about?
Sure those are just calls for service
involving a missing person of any age.
Those are some.
Some of those are adults.
Some of those are children.
Some of those, maybe, uh, you know.
Quite frequently will get calls for a
missing child four or five years old,
and it turns out they were just
hiding in the house from mom or dad.
So so I don't want people to think
that there's at present 155 missing.
Persons running around out in Bear County.
As a result of these calls,
many of these are are found
within minutes or score,
so one of them, you know,
some of them could be a missing adult,
maybe an Alzheimer's patient,
that wandered away from home
and we brought them back home.
These are just calls for service that
we received and dispatched the deputy
to for for a report of a missing person.
Thank you Sir, sure Brandon
here with case at do you
have data on missing persons?
Reports that were actually
actually filed? And how that can
do? No, we can. We can probably get
or we can get you that easily enough.
I don't. I don't have that that number
in front of me but but I'm I'm sure we
can reproduce that that number for you.
And have you seen for these
missing persons calls?
Has it ever been this high or?
Is it something I've never seen
that thing I was just I was just given
those numbers for this year and last year,
but again, I I would like to see
what it looked like in years prior.
It could be that this is just a temporary
uptick that we're seeing there well
prompted us to pull those numbers.
Is our our Sergeant and see ID.
Sergeant John Mahan was was briefing us
earlier and he said gosh, you know what,
they're just there just seems to
be a lot more going on right now.
And that was just him working
from memory going.
We've really just had a lot of these,
but only didn't.
Only then did we pulled those numbers.
And realized, well yeah, he's not.
He's not messing around.
Those numbers are high so but we'll have
to get you on the the number on how
many were actually entered as missing.