Carpenter missing over a month; family is distraught
Glen Smith
A Hattieville family is tonight pleading for help in locating their loved one after he went missing one month ago. Thirty-eight year old carpenter, Glen Smith, was last seen by his sister on December nineteenth at their home on the Dollar Bank Road in the village. The family believes that Smith could have been kidnapped or even worse, that his life could have been taken. His slippers were found a few yards away from his home. The matter has since been reported to the Hattieville Police and a contingent of officers headed by Woman Police Inspector Vianney Robinson has been deployed to investigate the crime. Several persons have been questioned, but there is still no clue on Smith’s disappearance. Smith’s sister, Delsie, says the family is still in shock because her brother could not have disappeared in thin year, while the police say they are not giving up on the investigation.
Delsie Smith
Delsie Smith, Sister of Missing Person
“I’m here because I want to know what happened because we didn’t get nothing. His cell phone is just answering machine; we don’t hear anything about none of his friends that he hangs with. The police is doing a very good job because I understand they have placards of his picture on all the land posts going from seventeen miles up to the border. I thought they would have kidnapped him because we found his slippers on the roadside like if he was running away from somebody or something. On the twenty-sixth of December we usually have a family day and I went up to Hattieville cause my older sister told me that she hadn’t seen him, he had not come for his Christmas dinner. So on the twenty-sixth night, we had our day and I came back. The twenty-sixth night my sister heard someone screaming down the road and on the morning of the twenty-seventh they went out there and they found the slippers and that is when I called the police when my sister informed me of the slippers.”
Duane Moody
“So what you feel happened to your brother?”
Delsie Smith
“Well my thing is, my brother dead. Somebody took my brother away and took his life. I’m just appealing to anyone if they know anything the last time they see him. I wish someone could come to the family and say something.”
ASP Bart Jones, Police Press Officer
“We are indeed investigating that missing person report. In fact, what the commissioner has done is send a team of police officers headed by an inspector to aid the Hattieville police in that missing person investigation. It is still current; we have not given up on that report. So we are not considering him dead or anything like. The team has followed up on several leads and the result has been fruitless in terms of turning up the gentleman or indeed confirmed if he is dead but it is still an ongoing investigation.”
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Smith can contact the nearest police station.
