Police deny missing girl left country
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Sgt. Ken Hampton, public information officer with the Smyrna Police Department, declined Wednesday to confirm a report on a highway safety Web site that said Analyce Guerra might have been taken out of the country.
Guerra was last seen April 23 when she was put to bed. Her mother, Eva Guerra, awoke to find the child missing and the front door unlocked.
The police department has no suspects in the investigation and does not have any indication that the child was taken out of the state or across the U.S. border, Hampton said.
“No one seems to know where that information is coming from,” Hampton said, adding that the department is working to combat spreading rumors about the case.
“We know that there are rumors going around, which is why we’ve tried to speak to the press as much as possible,” Hampton said.
The report is posted on the Web site of Highway Watch, a program started in 1998 by the American Trucking Association.
After Sept. 11, Highway Watch became a training program to instruct construction workers, commercial and public truck drivers and other transportation employees to identify and report safety concerns on the nation’s highways. The group works under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.