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Haleigh Cummings' family tells Rivera to leave property

Reported by: Cary Williams
Email: cwilliams@abcactionnews.com
Last Update: 2/23/2009 4:52 pm
Geraldo Rivera (Thos Robinson, Getty Images)
Geraldo Rivera (Thos Robinson, Getty Images)

PUTNAM COUNTY, FL -- More than 1,600 leads have flooded the Putnam County Sheriff's Office since 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings disappeared from her Satsuma home almost two weeks ago.

After receiving new tips, more than 100 officers searched two areas on Friday, but found nothing relevant to the investigation.

There was no ground search on Saturday.

The case, which has gained national attention, took another highly visible turn this past weekend.

On Saturday, FOX News Channel's Geraldo Rivera was told to leave a trailer park where Haleigh's family is camped out, according to The Florida Times Union. 

Rivera was told to leave after he started questioning Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings.

Rivera said he'd been told that Cummings had hit Haleigh and that he (Cummings) is 75 percent sure who has the girl, according to the report.

A short time later, family members told Rivera to leave the property.  Putnam County deputies showed up and issued Rivera a trespass warning at the request of the owner of the property where the family is living.

The warning means Rivera could be arrested if he returns.  He said he understood and would not return, but refused to sign the trespass warning, according to the Times Union.

Haleigh was discovered missing in the early morning hours of February 10.  She disappeared from her father's mobile home, about 10 miles south of Palatka.

Investigators believe she was abducted.

Source: Jacksonville.com




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