FOXNews.com: Tucson Police Search For Missing 6-Year-Old

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Tucson Police Search For Missing 6-Year-Old Apr 22nd 2012, 01:40 TUCSON, Ariz. –  The overnight disappearance of a 6-year-old Arizona girl triggered a massive search Saturday by scores of police, FBI agents and a large contingent of deputy U.S. Marshals as officials investigated the possibility that she might have been kidnapped or just wandered off. First-grader Isabel Mercedes Celis's parents last saw her in bed at 11 p.m. Friday, and they discovered her missing at about 8 a.m. Saturday, said Tucson police spokeswoman Sgt. Maria Hawke. Police continued to search an area of Tucson around East Broadway Boulevard and Craycroft Road late into the afternoon using street patrols, canines, detectives and a helicopter. Hawke said investigators were looking into all potential scenarios, including the possibility that Isabel got up and wandered out of the home she shares with her parents and two brothers or that she was kidnapped. The working-class neighborhood of single-family homes is sandwiched between a large shopping mall to the east and business and a Catholic school to the west. Both parents live in the home, so police did not think a child custody dispute was involved. "Because of the possibly existing that this child could have been abducted we're treating it as if it's that significant," Hawke said Saturday afternoon. "We don't want to be caught behind the ball by not exploring that possibility. So because of that we literally, all hands on deck, every available resource has been called." Hawke says at least 75 law enforcement officers were involved, possibly as many as 100, as more resources continue to arrive to help in the search and investigate the disappearance. Isabel is described as just under 4-feet-tall and weighing 44 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes.

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