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$25,000 Reward:
One week later no sign of missing two-year-old Bianca Jones
By Andre
Ash -
Tell Us
Detroit
DETROIT
(Tell Us
Det) -
Two
year-old
Bianca
Lily
Jones
was last
seen a
week ago
Friday,
December
2nd,
while in
the care
of her
father,
D'Andre
Lane. He
claims
he was
car-jacked
at
gunpoint
by two
men.
Lane
also
says
when
they
stole
his
vehicle,
they
took off
with his
little
girl in
tow.
Detroit
Police
discovered
the 2004
Silver
Mercury
Grand
Marquis
moments
later
just
east of
the New
Center
area,
just
blocks
north of
DPD
Central
Division,
but
inside
the
car.. no
Bianca.
Area law
enforcement
agencies
along
with
volunteers
have
combed
an eight
square
mile
area all
week,
searching
through
alleys,
abandoned
structures
and
trash
containers
for any
sign of
the
little
baby.
Bianca's
mom,
Banika
Jones
and
family
members
joined
the
effort
to find
their
precious
little
toddler,
passing
out
fliers,
making
T-shirts,
and
buttons,
and
holding
on to
hope
that she
returns
home
safely.
Meanwhile,
according
to the
fathers'
attorney,
Terry
Johnson,
Lane
continues
to
cooperate
with
authorities
in the
hunt for
his
daughter.
D'Andre's
accounts
of what
happened
last
Friday
has
change.
Authorities
are
beginning
to
scrutinize
his
story
and
given
his
criminal
past
involving
guns and
drugs,
investigators
are
keeping
all
options
open.
Monday,
D'Andre
was
released
from
jail as
a
massive
search
gets
under
way with
hundreds
of
volunteers.
Tuesday,
Lane
went to
the
media
and
pledged
to
whomever
has his
little
girl, to
return
her.
Answering
speculations
that he
had
something
to do
with his
daughter's
disappearance,
Lane
said he
doesn't
care
what
police
or
anyone
thinks
about
him. He
says, he
loves
Bianca
and
would
never do
anything
to harm
her.
Terry
Johnson
advised
Lane not
to
re-state
exactly
what
happened
during
the
car-jacking
incident,
avoiding
the
opportunity
for Lane
to
contradict
his
story
again,
which
police
already
say has
holes in
it,
Johnson
says,
his
client
had
already
given
enough
information
to
investigators
and the
media.
Lane
returned
to his
north
eastside
home on
Friday
for the
first
since
the FBI
raided
the
domain
earlier
in the
week. He
hasn't
been
living
at his
residence
in the
past few
days but
instead
at an
undisclosed
location
for his
safety.
In the
wake of
this
unthinkable
situation,
Lane
says
that he
and his
family
have
received
death
threats,
and
because
of that,
he won't
participate
in any
public
search
at this
time.
Metropolitan
United
Methodist
Church
on
Woodward
is the
designated
location
where
police
and
volunteers
have
continued
to meet
and be
apart of
the
search,
nearly
900 of
them
this
week. As
the
search
entered
it
second
week,
Bianca's
mom
continues
to hold
on to
hope
that her
little
girl
will be
home
soon and
for
Christmas.
In the
basement
fellowship
hall of
the
church,
Jones
thanked
volunteers
and law
enforcement
for
stepping
up and
showing
their
support.
Meanwhile,
there
remains
an
reward,
now more
than
$25,000
for
anyone
who
knows
anything
about
where
this
innocent
two-year-old
girl
maybe. A
week
later,
no new
clues,
no
substantial
evidence
that
connects
anyone
to this
crime,
and
still no
Bianca,
a young
child
who a
touched
the
hearts
of so
many.
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