Suffolk County police mentioned Monday that they made an arrest within the mysterious case of a 14-year-old woman who went lacking from her residence almost a month in the past.
The arrest within the case of Emmarae Gervasi comes simply days after cops discovered the woman alone on a ship docked in Islip – with few clues as to how she received there.
Police haven’t launched particulars of the suspect within the case and referred inquiries to the county district lawyer’s workplace, which didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The teenager vanished on Dec. 9 after leaving her residence with out sneakers or a jacket, final seen getting right into a automobile exterior the household’s Patchogue residence. The next day she was noticed on surveillance cameras knocking on doorways at a Bohemia motel earlier than disappearing once more.
Her dad, Frank Gervasi, mentioned in a sequence of Fb posts that he was main a seek for his daughter – and claimed that the woman initially left with a person she met on-line however was later dropped off after which picked up by a “random” 65-year-old stranger.
In a publish over the weekend, he mentioned he believed Emmarae was a sufferer of intercourse trafficking and was “forced to do things that a 14-year-old shouldn’t have to do.”
On Monday, Frank Gervasi abruptly canceled an interview with The Put up to are inclined to his daughter, however mentioned the woman was doing high-quality beneath the circumstances.
