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Green, Detrez 1-22-17; East Albany, GA - age 2
Topic Started: Feb 3 2017, 07:24 AM (159 Views)
tatertot
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http://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/gbi...83dad5a87c.html

GBI searches Ashburn home for child reported missing in Albany
GBI offers ‘no comments’ in case of 2-year-old boy reported missing in Albany during tornado
By Jon Gosa

ALBANY — The GBI, at the request of the Dougherty County Police Department, has joined the investigation into the disappearance of 2-year old Detrez Green, who was reported missing following the Jan. 22 tornado that struck Piney Wood Estates mobile home park in East Albany. The case has taken an unexpected turn with officials searching the former home of the boy’s parents in Ashburn.

“On Friday, the Dougherty County Police Department requested the GBI assist in the search (of the missing boy),” said GBI Office of Public Affairs Director Nelly Miles. “That is when we came on board. Since that point, two days ago, we ended up in Ashburn at the previous home of the parents of Detrez Green. The case is active, and we are continuing the search.”

Miles would not comment specifically on the reasons the GBI was searching the Ashburn home, located at 1006 Pine Knot Road, after the toddler was reported missing by his parents, Kevian Green and Adaijah Rainey, in Albany.

“There is nothing that I can release at this time,” said Miles. “All I can say is that we are following the evidence from the case. It is a missing persons case, and we did receive questions about us being in that location, so we were able to confirm that, yes, we are in that location and it is related to the missing-persons case.”

The search for the toddler began on Jan. 22 after he was reported missing following the deadly tornado that ripped through Dougherty County.

Rainey, the boy’s mother, originally told officials that the toddler slipped away from her just as the storm struck their mobile home at Piney Wood Estates off Sylvester Road in Albany. She said the boy was last seen walking into the kitchen area of the home toward the back door just before a large oak tree destroyed the structure. But she did not say he was not seen leaving the home or being swept away.

After a massive search lasting more than five days yielded no evidence of the youngster, rescue efforts were called off on Jan. 27 and the case was turned over to the Dougherty County Police Department, according to Dougherty County Emergency Management officials.

“We brought in the Georgia Search and Rescue Team; our portion of this was to search every possible place we can and exhaust all those resources and make a determination of where the missing person may be,” said EMA Director Ron Rowe. “We have had over 200 people in the area. We have cleared an area to ground level and below at least 150 yards away from the site. We’ve drained a pond to where you could walk through it.

“We have put dive teams in other sections of it. We have been a mile and a half downstream. We have been hundreds of yards past this pond area. We’ve literally cleared the ground to dirt. It is in our best, expert judgment that in this area, the missing person is not there at this time.”

Dougherty County Police Department Chief Jackie Battle confirmed that the matter was being handled as a missing person case, but would not comment as to why the GBI was searching in Ashburn for Green. She also confirmed that there was no picture of the missing child made available.

When the GBI was asked about a picture of Green, Miles said, “We don’t have anything to release.”

Asked if there was foul play involved, Miles said, “There is no comment that I can make there. All I can say is that it remains a missing persons case.”

Miles also would not comment on the length of time that the GBI spent searching the former home of Green and Rainey, nor would she confirm if there was a verifiable birth certificate for Detrez Green.

“I can not comment on that,” Miles said.

Ashburn Police Chief Cliff Jordan said Thursday he is aware of a picture on social media of Green when he was four or five months old, but nothing since.

“From what I know of, there is one picture circulating on Facebook from when the child was anywhere from four to five months old,” Jordan told The Herald. “I understand that there have been people that Adaijah has contacted that have actually seen this child, but not within the last couple of months or maybe year or so.”

Jordan also confirmed an incident from 2014 when Kevian Green was arrested by the Tri-County SWAT Team after holding Rainey and two children hostage in the home on Pine Knot Road. During the incident, Green was armed with a gun, reports indicate.

“I was actually not here when that incident took place,” said Jordan. “I only took over since April of last year, so the knowledge that I have of it is from the report. From what we understand, it was a domestic dispute. The young lady’s father called and said that he feared that his daughter was in danger, and there was a SWAT standoff for maybe an hour or so.”

According to reports, no charges were filed after the incident.
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http://www.walb.com/story/34979738/still-n...s-disappearance

Still no answers in toddler's disappearance
Thursday, March 23rd 2017, 7:33 am EDT
Friday, March 24th 2017, 7:18 am EDT
By Cade Fowler, Anchor

DOUGHERTY CO., GA (WALB) - More than two months after a tornado struck Dougherty County, a toddler reported missing during the storm has still not been found.

The parents of 2-year-old Detrez Green told law enforcement they last saw the child moments before a tornado struck their home in the Piney Woods mobile home park.

Dozens of search and rescue workers spent days in the woods surrounding the mobile home park off Sylvester Road looking for any sign of the child.

When the ground search turned up no clues, a pond near the home was drained and dive team called in.

The GBI, which is assisting with the investigation, later searched the former Turner County home of the child's parents, Kevian Green and Adaijah Rainey.

In 2014, Green was taken into custody following a standoff at the couple's home in Ashburn.

Officials said a 6-day-old infant, believed to have been Detrez, was in the home at the time.

WALB has reached out to the family for a picture of the toddler, but they have not provided us with one. Investigators have told us they also have no picture to go on.

The GBI says the investigation is active but they have no new leads in the case.

Anyone with information about the disappearance of Detrez Green is asked to contact the GBI Sylvester Office at 229-777-2080 or the Dougherty County Police Department at 229-430-6600.
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