Immigration Spotlight...3 long-missing women freed in Cleveland after kidnapping by Mexicans.

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/justice/cleveland-missing-women-latest-
developments/index.html

Cleveland (CNN) -- Three long-missing women -- Amanda Berry, 27; Georgina
"Gina" DeJesus, 23; and Michelle Knight, 32 -- and a child believed to be
Berry's were found alive Monday in a Cleveland home, police said. The
women are believed to have been abducted years ago -- in 2002, 2003 and
2004 -- and held captive at the home, according to police.

Three suspects, all brothers, including the home's owner, Ariel Castro,
52, were arrested and are awaiting charges, police said.

Here are the most recent developments in the case:

New developments:

-- Law enforcement officers are talking to neighbors of Ariel Castro, but
as of Tuesday afternoon no other homes besides his had been linked
directly to the kidnappings, Cleveland police spokesman Sgt. Sammy Morris
said.

-- As of that time, the three Castro brothers had been arrested but not
formally charged. Morris explained that in Cleveland, there is typically a
48-hour window between when a person is arrested and charged.

-- Daniel Marti, a neighbor of Ariel Castro's who has known him since
junior high school, described Castro as "a very outgoing person, very nice
guy, smart." He recalled that Castro's life changed "when his wife left
him back about 20 years ago."

-- Marti said he never heard any "kind of noise come out of that house."
Yet he also recalled that when the two talked, Castro would "start
stepping out of the driveway toward the street or front of the house."
"Now that I think of it, he didn't want nobody back there," said Marti.

Previously reported developments:

-- The three women and the child were rescued Monday after a neighbor,
Charles Ramsey, said he heard screaming from the home.

-- Ramsey said he kicked in the bottom of a door, and a woman came out
with a girl and said, "Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry."

-- Ramsey and Berry called 911, authorities said. "Help me, I am Amanda
Berry," she begged the operator. "I've been kidnapped, and I've been
missing for 10 years. And I'm here, I'm free now."

-- In addition to Berry, police found DeJesus and Knight at the home; all
three said they were held captive there, according to authorities.

-- Police later arrested Ariel Castro, who's identified as a former school
bus driver, and his two brothers. Police believe Ariel Castro was the only
one of the brothers who lived at the home, Cleveland's Deputy Police Chief
Ed Tomba told reporters late Monday.

-- The names and ages of Ariel Castro's arrested brothers are Pedro
Castro, 54, and Onil Castro, 50, Cleveland police said Tuesday.

-- Knight, of Cleveland, had been last seen on August 22, 2002, and was
reported missing by a family member the next day, city Public Safety
Director Martin Flask said. She was 21 at the time, according Cleveland
police.

-- Berry was last seen after finishing her shift at a Burger King in
Cleveland in 2003. It was the eve of her 17th birthday.

-- DeJesus, of Cleveland, disappeared nearly a year later, in April 2004.
She was 14.

-- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said Tuesday that investigators are
working to answer three questions: Why and how the women were taken, and
how they remained undetected.

-- Officials have no indication that anybody living near the Cleveland
home ever called authorities about anything suspicious there, Flask said
Tuesday. Flask said that assessment is based on an initial review of city
databases; officials will continue to examine the databases, he said.

-- Since the first disappearance, police were called to the home once --
in January 2004 -- Flask said. Investigators were there at the request of
Children and Family Services to investigate a complaint that Castro left a
child on a school bus while he was working as a school bus driver, Flask
said. Investigators knocked on the home's door but were "unsuccessful in
making contact." The matter was later dropped when investigators
determined that Castro had no criminal intent in the bus incident, he
added.

-- Investigators are interested in looking at other properties connected
to the suspects, Tomba said Tuesday.

-- FBI agents in protective suits and with a search dog entered the
Cleveland home Tuesday afternoon where three long-missing women had been
held. Investigators earlier in the day had removed the front door of the
same house.

-- When asked whether Castro had gained his alleged captives' trust
through his job as a school bus driver, and whether he had driven them
when they were students, Tomba said investigators have no evidence of
that. "That's up to the girls to tell us," he said Tuesday. "We still
don't know; that is one of the great unknowns right now. We anticipate
getting that information from the ladies, not the suspects."

-- Cuyahoga County authorities probably will charge the three Castro
brothers Wednesday or Thursday, Special Agent Vicki Anderson, a
spokeswoman for the FBI in Cleveland, said Tuesday.

-- Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted as a child and freed in 2009 after 18
years of captivity behind the home of a California couple, made the
following statement regarding the discovery of the Cleveland women: "These
individuals need the opportunity to heal and connect back into the world.
This isn't who they are. It is only what happened to them. The human
spirit is incredibly resilient. More than ever this reaffirms we should
never give up hope."

-- Tito DeJesus, a man who says he played in a band with Cleveland
abduction suspect Ariel Castro, told CNN's Brooke Baldwin Tuesday that
Castro's house seemed like "a normal environment." DeJesus said he was
last at the home two years ago. During the brief visit, DeJesus was only
in the living room and the front of the house, he said. "It was quiet. It
was like it was empty, nobody was in there. As if it was only him living
in there," DeJesus said.

-- A few years ago, Tito DeJesus recalled that Castro asked him if his
"cousin" had been found. DeJesus said he eventually realized that Castro
was referring to Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, one of the three women who
police said were rescued from the home Monday. Tito DeJesus said that he
doesn't believe he's related to Georgina, although he's known her family
for years.

-- The uncle of the three suspects in custody said family members are
"surprised" about the developments. "Shame on you," Julio Castro told
CNN's Martin Savidge, when asked what he would say to his nephews.

-- U.S. Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
made reference to the once-missing Cleveland women at a hearing Tuesday on
human trafficking. "The eyes of our country are riveted by the welcome
rescue of three young women abducted and detained for over a decade in a
Cleveland home," the California Republican said. " And as we rejoice at
their rescue, this hearing today, this testimony today, underscores the
sad reality that millions of other girls around this world and indeed
right here, in our own communities ... are being robbed of their youth."



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