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« Warwick family to reap benefits of 'Extreme Makeover' | Today | Photo: Adding a presidential touch to penne at URI » February 18, 2008Police suspend search after student contacts friend
PROVIDENCE -- After a Johnson & Wales University student who was reported missing contacted a friend by phone yesterday, the Providence police are no longer worried that either she or her boyfriend is in immediate peril and have suspended the active search for them. Amy Scott, 21, of New Jersey, and boyfriend Daniel Querzoli, 22, of East Bridgewater, Mass., were last seen around Thursday night at her 521 Angell St. apartment in Providence when they borrowed a car from one of Scott’s roommates, the police said. Scott called a friend from a pay phone yesterday, and the friend noticed the call was coming from a 309 area code, said Detective Sgt. Carl Weston, the case's lead investigator. The police said the telephone she called from is in McLean, Illinois. "The friend said Amy was very cryptic as to where she was and what she was doing. Amy said she was OK and still with Dan, the kid she left with, but she was very brief," Weston said today. He added that the friend reported that Amy said, "We're fine." Weston said Scott also said that she did not want to stay on the phone too long because the call might be traced by the police. While it was initially thought they had left with no money, Weston said the police have since learned that Querzoli has access to cash. The police would not be more specific. The police have asked that anyone with information call (401) 272-3121. -- projo.com staff writers Michael P. McKinney and Brandie Jefferson, with reports from Journal staff writer Gregory Smith Scott’s mother called the police to report her daughter missing. Under most circumstances, Weston said earlier, police wouldn't start a search so soon, but, he said, there were some odd circumstances that led the police to act. The police described Scott as Caucasian, 5-foot-7, 105 pounds with wavy red hair and Querzoli, a student at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, as 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall, with medium build and brown hair. The police put out a nationwide missing-persons alert for Scott, describing her as a "endangered missing person," Weston said. No bulletin was put out on Querzoli because his father has not reported him missing. At the same time, the police put out a "try to locate" on the car that was borrowed from one of Scott's roommates. The car they drove off in is a 2004 silver Honda Civic with New Jersey plates -- RUF20X. The Providence police all day Saturday, that night and on Sunday searched the city, especially looking near water in case the car they were in had gone into water. Officers also looked up and down streets and in lots -- anywhere the car might have been left. The police sent out an alert to all officers in the city. The police canvassed stores where the two might have gone and for hours the police went over surveillance video at the stores. Scott’s mother told the police that it was “completely uncharacteristic” for her daughter to be gone without contacting anyone, Weston said earlier. Posted by Mike McKinney CommentsCookie | February 18, 2008 4:03 PM link Has anyone thought of the possibility of kidnapping of both and she couldn't say more. It seems like a real good possibility, since she didn't have a chance to say much. Maybe she couldn't, because she wasn't allowed too.With all the wackos and crackpots and perverts out there today maybe they were both kidnapped Mary | February 19, 2008 12:19 AM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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I think that if Amy and her boyfriend ran away then they need to grow up, talk to their families and quit trying to punish their parents by "disappearing". Their behavior is the height of immaturity and insensitivity and, unless there's more to this story, i.e. abuse or some other crime by a family member, then these students ought to be ashamed of themselves.