hoppyfrog
10-18-2007, 10:04 AM
http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=15239&z=3&p=
10/17/2007
Police are searching for Cape Coral runaway who was last seen Wednesday morning in the company of a convicted felon.
Rachel Lee Harold, 15, was spotted with Carl Robert Dugo, 21, trying to cash a stolen check at the Money Corner store in North Fort Myers around 10 a.m.
A Lee County deputy arrived at the store, but the couple fled in a 1992 gold Mercury with license tag GRL8Q.
Deputies briefly chased them north on US-41, but ended the pursuit when they say Dugo started speeding and driving recklessly.
Harold was reported missing Tuesday morning after she left a note for her mother on a torn piece of notebook paper.
"I started to cry. I thought, 'My God! Rachel, you don't know what you're getting yourself into," said her mom, Mary Hevner.
The note said Rachel "… fell in love with a boy."
But Dugo is far from a boy - he's a man with a mugshot and a lengthy rap sheet.
"She's in danger," Hevner said.
"I think any time you get behind the wheel and you're fleeing, it's like giving someone a deadly weapon. But now it's not just his life. It's this young girl's life and the life of anyone in a car they should smash into," said a relative of Dugo's, who asked not to be named.
She also thinks Dugo is a threat.
"He does fear going back to prison, and that is scary because that's the motivation for continuing running," she said.
Though no Amber Alert has been issued, the teen is considered missing and endangered because she is with a convicted felon.
Dugo, who is also known as "Bobby," of Marx Drive in North Fort Myers, has been arrested by Lee County deputies a half-dozen times on a wide range of charges, including grand theft, burglary and dealing in stolen property.
When caught, police say Dugo will be charged with fleeing and eluding police and sheltering an unmarried minor.
Anyone with information on Dugo or Harold can call Cape Coral police at (239) 574-3223 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 780-TIPS.
pic of Rachel
http://65.202.67.195/Articles/articlefiles/15239-MUG_harold-071017.jpg
pic of Dugo
http://65.202.67.195/Articles/articlefiles/15239-MUG_dugo-071017.jpg
10/17/2007
Police are searching for Cape Coral runaway who was last seen Wednesday morning in the company of a convicted felon.
Rachel Lee Harold, 15, was spotted with Carl Robert Dugo, 21, trying to cash a stolen check at the Money Corner store in North Fort Myers around 10 a.m.
A Lee County deputy arrived at the store, but the couple fled in a 1992 gold Mercury with license tag GRL8Q.
Deputies briefly chased them north on US-41, but ended the pursuit when they say Dugo started speeding and driving recklessly.
Harold was reported missing Tuesday morning after she left a note for her mother on a torn piece of notebook paper.
"I started to cry. I thought, 'My God! Rachel, you don't know what you're getting yourself into," said her mom, Mary Hevner.
The note said Rachel "… fell in love with a boy."
But Dugo is far from a boy - he's a man with a mugshot and a lengthy rap sheet.
"She's in danger," Hevner said.
"I think any time you get behind the wheel and you're fleeing, it's like giving someone a deadly weapon. But now it's not just his life. It's this young girl's life and the life of anyone in a car they should smash into," said a relative of Dugo's, who asked not to be named.
She also thinks Dugo is a threat.
"He does fear going back to prison, and that is scary because that's the motivation for continuing running," she said.
Though no Amber Alert has been issued, the teen is considered missing and endangered because she is with a convicted felon.
Dugo, who is also known as "Bobby," of Marx Drive in North Fort Myers, has been arrested by Lee County deputies a half-dozen times on a wide range of charges, including grand theft, burglary and dealing in stolen property.
When caught, police say Dugo will be charged with fleeing and eluding police and sheltering an unmarried minor.
Anyone with information on Dugo or Harold can call Cape Coral police at (239) 574-3223 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 780-TIPS.
pic of Rachel
http://65.202.67.195/Articles/articlefiles/15239-MUG_harold-071017.jpg
pic of Dugo
http://65.202.67.195/Articles/articlefiles/15239-MUG_dugo-071017.jpg