Game Changer of the Year

"Game Changers are the everyday people making a difference within their communities through service, leadership and volunteerism. Through the Come Together Game Changers program, the Detroit Pistons are recognizing and rewarding these unsung heroes throughout the state of Michigan.

Game Changers are nominated by fellow community members, friends or family and this year’s Game Changer of the Year will be gifted a 2013 Chrysler 300C John Varvatos Limited Edition.".

There are people all over the world who do amazing things for their communities everyday and no one even knows it. Until organizations like the Detroit Pistons bring a group from their State to the forefront. They ask the public to help reward one who they feel has gone above and beyond the rest to make a positive difference for Michigan.

There are 10 people nominated by friends, neighbors or someone who's life was forever changed by one of these special people and then the public casts their votes on who they feel should win.

It is a 2 tier process to determine who will be the finalists for the grand prize. First the top 10 nominees are listed along with a brief description of what they have done to be a part of this special group of people. And through public voting the top 3 are then chosen.

Once they are reviled the public again can chose between them to find the grand prize winner.

Your probably wondering why I am posting this and yes it's a good reason. 

A person I consider a special friend, whom I call my brother because our work is similar and brought us together, is nominated.

His name is Jamie Jones. He began the Missing You Foundation which is a proactive group of people who not only list missing people but actively search for them all over Michigan.

Jamie has worked non stop to help bring other's loved ones home, despite paying for everything himself to the point of eating PB&J every night, he never takes a penny from the families. I've known him to go without the things you and I count on like Internet, phones and yes even electric just so he could help others.

His wonderful wife Marsha supports him 100% and helps him with his work as well. She keeps his spirit up when investigations aren't going well. She celebrates with him when he finds the person he was looking for alive. She cries with him when they are found deceased.

Jamie takes every case personally, like many of us in the Missing/Abducted community. His selfless acts inspire many around him to also try and help in anyway they can.


From the Game Changer of the Year webpage:

Jamie Jones

"Jamie spends the majority of his time searching and often successfully finding missing youth and adults in and out of the state of Michigan. He rallies search party volunteers, makes phones calls and uses his CB radio equipment to spread information to help in the search for missing persons. In addition to providing on-the-ground support for the search and rescue mission, he also extends himself to the families and loved ones of the missing to assist them during the ordeal - both emotionally and in providing any other assistance as needed."

So I am asking all our readers the please help us, help Jamie win this award. It will bring even more people to the Missing/Abducted field as well as give them more knowledge on how they too can make a difference in others lives and their own.

To read more about Jamie, the contest and to vote simply click Here .

If you can I ask you also tell your friends and family so they too can vote. You don't have to be from Michigan to help in this program.

Will you be the Game Changer who makes a difference in this man's life? I sure hope so.

Good Luck Bro, love ya!

 

 

Mystic Salazar has been found SAFE!!

According to Beverly Johnson, on Facebook, Mystic Salazar has been found safe.

Approx. 3:46 cdt her mother Jenn received a call saying Mystic was safe and sound in Michigan.

She is in protective custody and Jenn and her husband Amie are going to make arrangements asap to go get her.

Her abductor Enrique is under arrest.

Updates to follow.

Amazing news after 2 long years of waiting.

Search for Nevaeh uncovers child's body near River Raisin

Search for Nevaeh uncovers child's body near River Raisin

Tanveer Ali and Paul Egan
The Detroit News

Monroe -- Monroe County Sheriff's Department investigators on Thursday found a child's body west of Monroe that may be the body of the missing 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan. Police cordoned off an area near the River Raisin around Dixon Road in the area of Ida-Maybee and Neiman roads. Evidence experts were preparing late Thursday to examine a body that searchers discovered that had clothing similar to what Nevaeh was wearing when she disappeared from her Monroe home on May 24, a person familiar with the investigation said.

Sheriff's department and FBI officials would not confirm they had found the child's body.

No positive identification of the body had been made by early Thursday evening. Nevaeh's uncle, Michael Buchanan, told The Detroit News: "The police just informed us, 'If you hear something from us again, it'll be positive,' (meaning there's a body)." If the body is the missing child, it will mark a tragic end to the search in an investigation that has focused, in part, on friends of the girl's mother who have criminal records for sexual offenses.

Nobody has been charged in the case.

Earlier Thursday, a 64-year-old man, who a district judge said has been cleared as a person of interest in the girl's disappearance, said he was held by interrogators for 12 hours, answering questions such as "How do you think they did it?" James Easter said he made a mistake by answering that question outright, claiming that if he was the one who had abducted Nevaeh on May 24, he would have "took my vehicle behind the nail salon nearby and called to her with a Kit Kat." "When you're an innocent man, they keep telling you this and that," Easter said. "All I could keep telling them is, 'I didn't do it.' "

Easter was arrested over the weekend on unrelated arson charges, and he was released on $250 bail after his arraignment Monday. District Court Judge Jack Vitale said the county prosecutor and county sheriff had cleared Easter from Nevaeh's case, but the Monroe County Sheriff's Office says they continue to look at every possible scenario and wouldn't comment on any potential people of interest.

Monroe County Sheriff's Maj. Dan Motylinski said the department would not comment on any claims made by Easter. Easter said he learned of Nevaeh's disappearance when he was called by a girlfriend who lives at the Charlotte Arms Apartments, where the girl had disappeared while playing alone in the parking lot.

His girlfriend said she needed a ride to the store, saying the apartment complex was abuzz over the missing girl, he said. "I had a hard time thinking in my head," Easter said of the questioning. He told authorities he had been at Kmart that night. He said investigators tried to pin him down, acting like Nevaeh was at the store with her mother that day. "They kept telling me, 'You followed her out of Kmart,' " Easter said.

Easter said investigators took DVDs, personal photos and other possessions, leaving his home a mess Friday. Authorities returned Sunday, digging up his backyard. Easter is one of three people of interest made public in Nevaeh's case. George Kennedy and Roy Smith, both sex offenders who knew Nevaeh's mother, are being held on possible parole violations.

Investigators are offering a $20,000 reward for information that could lead to finding Nevaeh.

Anyone with tips is asked to call (734) 243-7070. In an interview with the Toledo Blade on Wednesday from the Monroe County Jail, Kennedy also said he didn't take Nevaeh and began searching for her after learning of her disappearance. Kennedy told the Blade that blood police found in his motel room came from cutting himself shaving and from his girlfriend after she got a tattoo. Human blood found on a multitool, he said, came from a fishing accident. The sheriff's office has said none of the blood is Nevaeh's.

Meanwhile, the task force also is searching for two minivans, one green box-style and the other silver, that were parked at the Hollywood Elementary School when Nevaeh disappeared. The silver minivan was likely driven by a mother who was with her two small children.

Detroit News staff writers Mark Hicks and Mike Wilkinson contributed. tali@detnews.com (313) 222-2300

detnews.com

Searchers Needed for Saturday May 30, 2009 Search for Nevaeh Buchanan MI

Searchers Needed for Sat. Search for Nevaeh Buchanan

If you can't search, pray she will be found.

Host: Help Find Nevaeh Amyah Buchanan - MISSING!
Type: Causes - Rally
Network: Global
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm
Location: K-Mart Parking Lot
Street: Monroe St.
City/Town: Monroe, MI

Description

Rally your friends and family to come this morning and help with the ground search to look for Nevaeh.

Meet at 10:00 am. - Search to ????

Volunteers are being asked by family to wear yellow to honor Nevaeh.

Wear comfortable shoes, bring a walking stick, bring yourself! This little one needs to be found.

Thank you.

Help Find Nevaeh Amyah Buchanan - MISSING

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=82266834073&ref=nf

For more information on Nevaeh please click the Facebook link above or visit our main forum Here.

Neviaeh Amyah Buchanan, AMBER Alert, May 24,2009 MI

Amber Alert Issued for Missing Monroe Girl

Last Update: 1:55 pm

Monroe (WXYZ)-The Monroe County Sheriff's Office has issued an Amber Alert for a missing 5-year-old girl.

Nevaeh Buchanan was last seen Sunday in the parking lot of the Charlotte Arms Apartment Complex on Macomb Street in Monroe.

She has brown hair and eyes and was last seen wearing a light blue sleeveless shirt with red and white stripes and blue jeans.

Her scooter was also found laying in the parking lot of the complex.

If you have any information regarding Nevaeh's disapearance please call 911 immediately.

WXYZ.com

For updates visit our main forum Here.

Attention Michigan, Have you seen this Sex Offender? WANTED: Eldred Meadows!

U of M Police Search For Stalking Suspect
Last Update: 8:04 pm

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (WXYZ) - Police on the campus of the University of Michigan are asking for the public's help in finding a registered sex offender who is accused of stalking the school's staff.

Staff members say Eldred Meadows has harassed School of Music administrative staff using phone and e-mail several times since 1996.

A warrant for his arrest was issued late last week after the contacts resumed.

Meadows is 5' 10" tall and 155 lbs. He has a slim build, black hair and brown eyes. If you know where he is, you're asked to call (734) 763-1131.

WXYZ.com

For updates or more information visit our forum Here.

Tangena Hussain, AMBER Alert, 10/03/08 MI.

Amber Alert Detroit

(WWJ) -- An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing two-year old Hamtramck girl.

She was reportedly last seen at a gas station on Greenfield at Eight Mile in Detroit.

Two-year-old Tangena Hussain was left in the care of her mother's 27-year-old boyfriend at approximately 3 p.m. on October 2, 2008 when he dropped the 24-year-old mother off at work.

The boyfriend alleges that right before he went to pick up the mother from her job (at the end of her shift), he stopped at the gas station to make a purchase, leaving the child in the vehicle. He says that when exited the building and returned to the vehicle, the child was gone.

The child is described as an East Indian, 35 lbs, with a light brown complexion, and black shoulder length hair.

She was last seen wearing a long sleeve brown t-shirt with unknown cartoon character on front, white nylon cargo pants with multiple pockets and gold sandals.

Anyone who has information on the disappearance of Tangena Hussain is asked to contact the Detroit Police Department at 313-596-1240. Information from Detroit police.

http://www.wwj.com/Amber-Alert/3075799

I could kick myself for not having her on this blog sooner. There is much more to this story as well as a NCMEC poster at our forum Here.

This is updated daily on the forum, I can't update the blog as often due to staff shortage. So please check her story and others at the link above.

Thanks for your patience.

Orine Ann Favors,Silver Alert: 84-Year Old Woman Goes Missing From El Paso Home

SILVER Alert, Texas to Michigan

Silver Alert: 84-Year Old Woman Goes Missing From El Paso Home

POSTED: 5:51 pm MDT October 10, 2008

UPDATED: 9:04 pm MDT October 10, 2008

EL PASO, Texas -- The El Paso Police Department is asking for help in finding a missing elderly woman who was last seen at a home in east El Paso on 11551 Caballo Lake Street.

Orine Ann Favors, 84, is originally from Michigan and was staying with relatives in El Paso.

Favors suffers from early stages of dementia and also has other medical conditions that require medication.

It is believed that she may be trying to make her way to Michigan.

Anyone that has any information on this missing woman is asked to call El Paso police immediately at 915-832-4400.

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/17690904/detail.html?rss=elp&psp=news

For more information visit our forum Here.

AMBER ALERT: Dianna Windowmaker, Extreme Danger, Michigan

AMBER ALERT: Dianna Windowmaker

Last Update: 8:37 pm

(WXYZ) The Lansing Police Department has issued an Amber Alert for a missing girl that investigators believe is in extreme danger.

Dianna Rose Windowmaker was last seen in the area of the Mid Michigan Academy on West Maple in Lansing around 3:35 PM. She is described as 11 years old, 5 feet 1 inches tall, 90 lbs with black hair, brown eyes and a burn scar below here right eye.

Windowmaker was wearing a pink jacket, blue jean skirt and black stretch pants.

Witnesses say she was taken by 40 year old man, approximately 6 feet tall, wearing a black t-shirt, blue jeans and a black "doo rag" under a black ball cap.

He was last seen running from the area.

If you have any information, immediately call 911 or the Lansing Police Department at (517) 483-4600.

WXYZ.Com

For Updates Visit our forum HERE.