Thread: Missing Girl Investigation Centers On 1 Man

Missing-girl investigation centers on 1 man

By Jennifer Sullivan

Seattle Times staff reporter




Zina Linnik, 12, of Tacoma, has been missing since the Fourth of July.
A Pierce County man locked up for an immigration violation is the only person who Tacoma police are investigating in connection with the July 4 disappearance of a 12-year-old girl.

The man, who is not being identified because he has not been arrested or charged in connection with the disappearance of Zina Linnik, is a Level 1 registered sex offender who was convicted of first-degree incest in Pierce County in 1990.

"We don't have any other people of interest; we are still looking at all leads," said police spokesman Mark Fulghum.

The Pierce County man, 42, was arrested Monday after Tacoma police identified him as someone who hadn't been deported after being convicted of a felony, said Lorie Dankers, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Federal law mandates that all aliens convicted of felonies be deported to their home country.

Dankers couldn't explain why the man hadn't been deported after serving prison time. She said immigration officials learned about him from Tacoma police.

Tacoma police were led to the man because he drives a gray van that matches the description of a vehicle spotted leaving the area where Zina was last seen, Fulghum said. FBI agents searched the van, as well as the man's house, earlier this week.

Zina was last seen in an alley behind her Tacoma home on the Fourth of July, according to police. Witnesses said they heard a girl scream and saw an older gray van, driven by an Asian male, speed away. The man who police are investigating is Asian.

Fulghum said he doesn't know if Zina's family knows the man.

Zina is described as 4-foot-10 and weighing 80 pounds. She was wearing a pink T-shirt, capri pants and flip-flop sandals.

Police and FBI agents wrapped up a search of the Tiger Mountain State Forest in East King County today. Authorities were led to a rural swath of the mountain after the same tip that led them to the man led them to think that Zina might have been taken there after her abduction, Fulghum said.

"We were looking in a broad search area that would indicate that she had been up there since the Fourth of July," he said.

But, Fulghum added, the search resulted in "nothing earth-shattering" and provided no information that is "going to break the case."


Police still want to talk with two people seen waiting at a bus stop near South 25th and J streets around the time Zina disappeared. Fulghum said someone saw two males at the stop before and after the time that she went missing.

Information previously reported in The Seattle Times is contained in this report.

Jennifer Sullivan: 206-464-8294 or jensullivan@seattletimes.com




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Case Handled By:

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

ZINA LINNIK
Case Type: Lost, Injured, Missing
DOB: Nov 24, 1994 Sex: Female
Missing Date: Jul 4, 2007 Race: White
Age Now: 12 Height: 4'11" (150 cm)
Missing City: TACOMA Weight: 80 lbs (36 kg)
Missing State : WA Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United States Eye Color: Brown

Case Number: NCMC1074540
Circumstances: Zina was last seen on July 4, 2007. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt, multicolored capri pants, and pink flip flops.







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When are people going to have enough of these repeat sex offenders being let back out on the street to murder our children, does anyone in law enforcement have any kind of a conscience or any of our judges! ICE the man should have been deported, put Chertoff in jail for not doing his job the lowlife!

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Blood boiling ALERT!!!!! This is OUTRAGEOUS!! How many more innocents must suffer because the laws are not enforced!!!!

Federal law mandates that all aliens convicted of felonies be deported to their home country.

Doesn't federal law mandate that all illegal immigrants be deporated back to their homeland? After all, they are here illegally. The only appropriate punishment is to deport them.

If this guy turns out to be here illegally, Cantwell and Murray need to be constantly reminded that their positions helped allow this to happen.

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This has to stop now! This just blows my mind, a Level 1 sex offender remains in our country to recommit crimes! If this turns out to be true there needs to be a serious investigation in WA.

***Update*** Sheriff on MSNBC interview says “Suspect should have been deported but fell through the cracksâ€

Look where Washington's governor is today.

OLYMPIA: Gregoire pledges to work with Mexico’s president on trade

THE NEWS TRIBUNE Published: July 12th, 2007 01:00 AM

Gov. Chris Gregoire says she and Mexican President Felipe Calderon agreed Wednesday to work together on knocking down trade barriers, boosting trade and fighting drug trafficking.
The governor is leading a 50-member trade mission to Mexico City and Guadalajara this week. She hosted then-President Vicente Fox in Seattle and Yakima last year and is paying a return visit to one of the state’s Top 10 trading partners.

Gregoire said the delegation is highlighting Washington-headquartered companies, like Costco and Starbucks, and promoting a variety of large and small businesses, wines and farm products. The governor took part in promotions for french fries and cherries, wines, dairy products and tourism.

Higher education, ports, tourism and other sectors also have representatives on the trade mission.

The Associated Press

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