Saipan - Faloma Luhk, 10, & Meleina Luhk, 9, Americans, As Teo, 26 May 2011

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Searches will now be based on tips

Search operations for missing sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk will now be driven largely by tips that come in, according to the police.

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Press secretary Angel Demapan told Saipan Tribune that there are no “Operation Hope” updates at this time for public disclosure.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=110548&cat=1
 
DPS uses boat to search Banzai cliff line

 The Department of Public Safety searched the cliff line of the Banzai Cliff yesterday using a search and rescue boat but still failed to find a trace of missing sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk.

As this developed, a geologist from the U.S. Geological Survey cautioned searchers yesterday from entering the Liyan Falngun Hanom Cave in Marpi as it is a known “bad air cave” with high levels of carbon dioxide gas.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=110580
 
Does anybody else feel like the FBI made a show of leaving? Almost as if they wanted to make sure someone or ones knows they are gone---and maybe they have significant leads and now hope the suspects will be more likely to surface?

Maybe just wistful thinking, but I hope so....

MOO
 
DPS, FBI monitoring 'classified leads'

The Department of Public Safety in collaboration with the FBI, continues to monitor “classified leads” in the mysterious disappearance of sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk.

Press secretary Angel Demapan told Saipan Tribune yesterday that details and specifics of these leads cannot be disclosed at this time as investigations are still active and ongoing.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=110643&cat=1
 
Saipan suspends searches

Law enforcement personnel on Saipan are concentrating efforts on investigating possible leads in the case of two missing sisters after suspending islandwide searches for the two girls.

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"Given that such shoulder-to-shoulder operations did not turn up the results we had hoped for, the department must now recalibrate its efforts in order to continue to function with its available resources," Demapan said.

More: http://www.guampdn.com/article/20110629/NEWS01/106290305
 
DPS employee who refuse lie detector test 'related' to Luhk sisters

 A Department of Public Safety employee who reportedly refused to undergo a lie detector test as part of investigation into the disappearance of sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk is somehow “related” to the missing girls, Saipan Tribune learned from sources yesterday.

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DPS has refused to confirm or deny if this personnel is among those on the investigators' list of persons of interest in the case.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=110759
 
Sewer manholes being searched for Luhk sisters

 Public Safety Commissioner Ramon Mafnas confirmed yesterday an ongoing search at some sewer manholes to locate missing sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk. There was still no trace of the girls as of press time.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=110874&cat=1
 
'FBI remains committed to probe of Luhk sisters' disappearance'

The FBI remains committed to investigating the mysterious disappearance of sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk, according to FBI special agent Tom Simon yesterday.

Acting press secretary Teresa Kim told Saipan Tribune that the search for 10-year-old Faloma and 9-year-old Maleina Luhk at some sewer manholes and cliff lines continues as reported on Wednesday.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=110906
 
Sisters' case touches parents' primal nerve

 Although they live on the second floor of an apartment building, Gina Jin Reyes, 28, used to let her 8-year-old son play in the parking lot. That changed when sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk disappeared seven weeks ago, seemingly into thin air.

With the sister's mysterious disappearance now entering its 7th week, Reyes had to change the rules for her son, mainly for security purposes. She no longer allows her son to play on the ground floor unless she and other parents are there to watch them.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=110967&cat=1
 
PACIFIC UPDATE: Disappearance of 2 sisters grips Northern Marianas

“I’ve been having bad nightmares. I’m living in a nightmare. It’s difficult,” Jermain Quitugua told ISLANDS BUSINESS as she lights up candles and rearrange food offerings on June 15 at a makeshift altar right where her daughters Faloma and Maleina Quitugua Luhk were reportedly last seen on the morning of May 25 while waiting for their school bus.

More: http://www.islandsbusiness.com/isla...D=19733/overideSkinName=issueArticle-full.tpl
 
DPS firefighter who refused lie detector test resigns

The Department of Public Safety personnel who refused to undergo a lie detector test in connection with the investigation into the disappearance of sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk has resigned effective July 1, DPS Commissioner Ramon Mafnas disclosed yesterday.

As this developed, DPS assured protection to anyone who will come forward and offer information. Investigators are also planning to conduct another aerial search.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=111097
 
Investigators want deeper probe on man with birthmark

 The FBI and the Department of Public Safety investigators remain interested in the man with the distinctive birthmark on his right cheek in connection with their investigation into the mysterious disappearance of sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk.

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“We are very much interested in that particular report because of the fact that there was a claim that the individual was asking for a certain person,” Mafnas said.

When asked whether that person is related to the Luhk sisters, the commissioner replied, “I believe so.”

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He said the neighbor who claimed to have seen the man with the birthmark passed the lie detector test.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=111129&cat=1
 
Inclusion of Commonwealth in Amber Alert Program pushed

Rep. Teresita Santos (Ind-Rota) pre-filed a resolution urging Delegate Gregorio Kilili Sablan to include the CNMI in the Amber Alert Program which Santos said will be a big help when there are cases of child abduction including the disappearance of sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk since May 25.

More: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=111460&cat=1
 
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