By Alicia Cruz
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Acting upon "reliable information," Fayetteville police along with residents are now searching for the body of Shaniya Davis.
The search has become focused on an area in Sanford, North Carolina because the "reliable information" the police received states that the body of Shaniya Davis may have been dumped in that location.
Police have charged Shaniya's mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, with human trafficking among other offenses. Davis was "prostituting her child," said Fayetteville police spokeswoman Theresa Chance.
The mother told police last week that the child vanished from their mobile home in Fayetteville.
The man caught on a Hotels surveillance video with Shaniya Davis in his arms is Mario Andrette McNeill. He has been charged with first-degree kidnapping and is being held in jail.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS SURROUNDING THE CASE
TUESDAY, November 10, 2009
3:00 AM: Neighbor, Andrea Moore, described hearing noises outside her mobile home
5:30 AM: Mother put Shaniya Davis on sofa and last time she saw her child
6:11 AM: Shaniya observed on survellience video at hotel 40 miles from home in the arms of Mario McNeill waiting on elevator
6:53 AM: Antoinette Davis calls LE to report her daughter missing
• Law enforcement search the mobile home park and find a blanket covered in feces in garbage pail of neighbor, Andrea Moore. Blanket believed to be that of Shaniya. Theresa Chance, Fayetteville Police spokesperson stated Ms. Moore is not a suspect.
• Back porch and railing of home Davis family lives in is covered in feces.
• Ms. Davis, her 7-year-old son, Davis' sister and another child are removed from the home and not allowed to return due to extensive sewage leak.
• The N.C. Offender Registry lists two sex offenders who live in the mobile home park.
WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009
• Clarence Coe, boyfriend of Antoinette Davis, is arrested for the kidnapping of Shaniya. Reports provided to LE state he was seen leaving the mobile home park with Shaniya.
• Clarence Coe said he did not take Shaniya.
THURSDAY, November 12, 2009
• Still images from a Sanford hotel survellience video aired nationally of Mario Andrette McNeill, ex-boyfriend of Antoinette Davis' SISTER, carrying Shaniya Davis to the hotel's elevator.
FRIDAY, November 13, 2009
• Mario McNeill turned himself into police early morning after seeing the hotel images.
• Clarence Coe was released from jail and kidnapping charges dropped.
• Mario McNeill charged with kidnapping Shaniya Davis. Hotel survellience video confirmed him with Shaniya on Tuesday morning. McNeill stated he took Shaniya but denies that he kidnapped her.
• The whereabouts of Shaniya are unknown. FBI and U.S. Marshalls are involved in the nationwide search for Shaniya.
• Shaniya's father, Bradley Lockhart, arrived in Fayetteville and went on national TV begging for the return of his daughter who has lived with him for about 3-4 years, but only lived with her mother for the last three weeks.
• Clarence Coe, boyfriend of Antoinette Davis, is said to be more upset about Shaniya's disappearance than her mother...as per a neighbor intervewed by local news station.
SATURDAY, November 14, 2009
• Late Saturday, Shaniya's mother, Antoinette Davis, was charged with human trafficking, felony child abuse/prostitution, filing a false police report and resist, delay or obstruct.
• Police said Davis was being held at the Cumberland County Jail on $51,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in court Monday morning.
• Still no sign of Shaniya Davis.
SUNDAY, November 15, 2009
• Authorities acting on a tip are scouring a portion of south-central North Carolina for a 5-year-old girl reported missing by her mother. Multiple agencies have been searching for Shaniya Davis since 8 a.m.
• SANFORD, NC (WTVD) -- Fayetteville police confirmed Sunday that they were searching on the ground for a missing 5-year-old girl between Fayetteville and Sanford. Chopper 11 confirms a Fayetville forensics truck is on the scene and officers are searching near Walker Road off Highway 87 in the Sanford area.Witnesses told ABC11 Eyewitness News they saw officers searching a ravine in that area around 10 a.m.
• Sanford is about 40 miles north of Fayetteville. Police did not say if they were looking for a body or if they hoped to find Shaniya Davis alive.
• The father of a missing 5-year-old North Carolina girl says he never should have allowed her to go back to her mother.
• Another day gone by. A long day of searching wrapped up at 5:00 PM with still no sign of Shaniya.
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