A sanitation worker on his garbage route through southern Louisiana helped lead the police to a missing 10-year-old girl, who was last seen getting into a car with a registered sex offender, officials said. (February 9)
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DION MERRICK: I received the AMBER Alert around 1:30 am this morning. You know, there was a description of the car, the suspect and the girl.
BRANDON ANTONIE: And he was like, B, did you notice what I just saw? And I was like, what is this? He looked, man, that silver Nissan they say in the AMBER Alert – that he saw in the AMBER Alert.
DION MERRICK: I called 911. At the same time, I backed up my truck in the garage to make sure he didn’t get out and talked to the 911 operator. And she basically told me that I had about a minute before a police officer got in. scene.