« Reply #152 on: May 15, 2013, 10:48:08 PM »
Interesting ...
Found in http://stopthemyths.prophpbb.com/topic5222.html ...
Gina DeJesus' disappearance ...
Ironic comment by a Stop the Myths member: "So, in short, a sniffer dog, trained to react to human remains, was used in the hunt for Gina DeJesus. The dog, which never lies, alerted in this guys property, twice in the garage. The garage was dug up but no body was found. Gina turns up alive. Dogs don't lie."
Judge orders release of man suspected in Gina DeJesus' disappearance (republished)
A judge ordered Matthew Hurayt released from the Cuyahoga County Jail Monday, overriding the protests of prosecutors who maintain he may have been involved in the disappearance of Gina DeJesus.
Assistant County Prosecutor Jennifer Driscoll said a police dog trained to alert officers to the scent of cadavers “indicated” in three locations at Hurayt's West 50th Street home on Friday that a dead body may have been present at one time.
Two of the locations where the dog sat, the indicator used to alert police, were in Hurayt's garage, where an informant told investigators Hurayt had buried the girl's body beneath a freshly poured concrete floor. Investigators tore up the floor in the garage and under a doghouse.
The dog also alerted to a location in the house, Driscoll said.
Police arrested Hurayt, 35, a registered sexual predator, on Thursday based on the informant's tip. But investigators who dug up the garage floor and searched the house didn't find a body or any physical evidence of the girl, who has been missing since April 2004. Nineteen items removed from the house will be investigated further, Driscoll said.
Investigators refused to release the inventory of the items seized or the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant. They also refused to say which judge gave authorization for the search.
Hurayt, dressed in a charcoal pinstriped suit, appeared in Common Pleas Court Monday with his lawyer, Mark Marein. Hurayt posted $20,000 bond Thursday in connection with an unrelated felonious assault case but was held in jail over the weekend.
Hurayt left the jail and climbed into a waiting Lincoln Town Car, declining to answer questions hurled by reporters.
Gina DeJesus, at age 14, disappeared in 2004 as she walked home from Wilbur Wright Middle School in Cleveland.PD
Marein criticized police and prosecutors for arresting his client and holding him for four days “without a scintilla of evidence” and the media for blowing the case out of proportion.
“Quite frankly, I thought I was representing the Prince of Darkness, for God's sake,” Marein said.
Judge Stuart Friedman met with the lawyers in his chambers before the hearing Monday and rejected Driscoll's request to increase Hurayt's bond in the assault case. The judge said the law entitled Hurayt to a reasonable bond.
“The fact that he may be involved in other criminal activity, I can't speculate about,” Friedman said.
Friedman will preside over the assault case, in which Hurayt is accused of beating a man with a hammer, breaking his jaw and several ribs.
Friedman must also sentence Hurayt in a theft case in which the defendant pleaded guilty last month. A sentencing date has not been set.
Marein said earlier that police should be held responsible for for the property damage caused during Friday's search. They estimate damage to the home at $20,000.
Hurayt has six months to file a complaint with the city's Moral Claims Commission, said Maureen Harper, spokeswoman for Mayor Frank Jackson.
Police maintain that they had a “moral and ethical obligation” to conduct the search. The tipster who pointed to Hurayt gave them some information that proved accurate, a police spokesman said.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/judge_orders_release_of_man_su.html
Thanks for that Heri - a good example of what can go wrong when no corroberrating evidence is found to substantiate 'alerts' by cadaver dogs.
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