Found Safe LA - Gage Walker Roe, 2, Bossier City , 20 August 2017

Bossier City Police are asking the public for help with locating a missing 2-year old boy along with a person of interest in the case.

The child's mother tells police that she and her boyfriend, 25-year old Benjamin Adam Ashcraft of Shreveport went to the Horseshoe Casino during the early morning hours Sunday and brought along her 2-year old son Gage Walker Roe with them.

While the child’s mother was in the casino Ashcraft who had stayed in the SUV with her son in the parking garage left before the woman returned.

The SUV was located a few hours later in Shreveport at the intersection of Hearne Avenue and I-20 but the whereabouts of Ashcraft and the boy remain unknown.

https://www.ktbs.com/community/boss...cle_9f861c88-85df-11e7-9bfb-1f1c0e63fc0e.html

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UPDATE: Bossier City police say two-year-old Gage Walker Roe has been found safe.

Police are still searching for 25-year-old Benjamin Adam Ashcraft.

http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/new...ler-missing-car-he-was-in-recovered/794492578

Another found safe link.

Bringing a 2 yr old to casino to leave in the car?? UGH!

So glad the young boy is safe, but where in the world in the man? Maybe he went to buy drugs?

Gambling is a huge problem here. We have 6-7 Riverboats that are casinos. The area where the car was found is not in a good area of town

Mother charged with desertion: http://m.ksla.com/ksla/db_349655/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=ruO76eqE

BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) - A charge of child desertion has been filed against the mother of a 2-year-old who was believed to have gone missing.

And no charge will be filed against the Shreveport man police wanted to question in connection with the boy's disappearance, authorities said.

Celeste Marie Wilson, 36, also of Shreveport, told Bossier City police that she and her boyfriend, 25-year old Benjamin Adam Ashcraft, brought her 2-year-old son Gage Walker Roe along when they went to Horseshoe Casino early Sunday morning.

Ashcraft stayed with the boy in Wilson's SUV while the woman was in the casino.

The two left the parking garage before Wilson returned.

A few hours later, the SUV was found at Interstate 20 at Hearne Avenue in Shreveport.

The boy and Ashcraft were not there.

Later Sunday, the child was found unharmed.

It was not until early Monday morning that detectives were able to locate and question Ashcraft.

He told authorities he left with the child in Wilson’s vehicle so he could find a WiFi hotspot to instant message her since he has no service with a cellphone provider.

Ashcraft messaged Wilson, who agreed to meet him in front of Horseshoe Casino to get her son.

Police say she never showed up.

Ashcraft then took Wilson’s son to a home in Shreveport where an acquaintance agreed to take the boy to her home in Princeton and watch after him until Wilson could be contacted.

Ashcraft later abandoned Wilson's SUV at I-20 at Hearne due to a mechanical problem.

Wilson was booked into Bossier City Jail.