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October 4, 2007
Police are searching for a 28-year-old Cliffside Park woman, three weeks after she was last seen leaving the Hackensack diner where she's been a popular waitress for the past two years.
Thalia Stathis was reported missing on Sept. 26 by co-workers at the Arena Diner, said police, who found that she had disappeared Sept. 14, nearly two weeks earlier.
Authorities have been holding Stathis' ex-convict boyfriend on drug paraphernalia charges since the day she was reported missing, but have not named him a suspect. Police said they found a crack pipe on Hugues Francois, 33, when he showed up at Stathis' apartment as they searched it.
He told police that he hadn't seen or heard from her and figured she merely left, police said.
Francois, who served seven years in prison on a 1997 aggravated manslaughter conviction, was being held Wednesday night on $50,000 bail. In addition, police have charged Francois, also convicted in 1997 of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old, with failure to report as a sex offender under Megan's Law, authorities said.
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Oct 4 http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5690860
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Oct 31 http://www.northjersey.com/page.php...VFRXl5NzIxNTI4NiZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=
A judge on Tuesday ordered that a Cliffside Park ex-convict continue to be held on $150,000 bail while investigators determine whether he had anything to do with his girlfriend's disappearance.
Superior Judge Harry G. Carroll acknowledged that the bail could be viewed as excessive considering the minor drug and fraud charges Hugues Francois faces.
But the judge said he was keeping the amount at $150,000 because the state's case against Francois in the Sept. 14 disappearance of Thalia Stathis appears to be getting "stronger."
Francois, who previously served 10 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter, has been called a "person of interest" by prosecutors in the Stathis case.
Lab results from blood found in the trunk of his car didn't produce a match, but it is "consistent" with Stathis' DNA, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Catherine Fantuzzi told the judge Tuesday.
more at link
October 4, 2007
Police are searching for a 28-year-old Cliffside Park woman, three weeks after she was last seen leaving the Hackensack diner where she's been a popular waitress for the past two years.
Thalia Stathis was reported missing on Sept. 26 by co-workers at the Arena Diner, said police, who found that she had disappeared Sept. 14, nearly two weeks earlier.
Authorities have been holding Stathis' ex-convict boyfriend on drug paraphernalia charges since the day she was reported missing, but have not named him a suspect. Police said they found a crack pipe on Hugues Francois, 33, when he showed up at Stathis' apartment as they searched it.
He told police that he hadn't seen or heard from her and figured she merely left, police said.
Francois, who served seven years in prison on a 1997 aggravated manslaughter conviction, was being held Wednesday night on $50,000 bail. In addition, police have charged Francois, also convicted in 1997 of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old, with failure to report as a sex offender under Megan's Law, authorities said.
much, much more at link, incl pic
More news stories
Oct 4 http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5690860
Oct 9 http://www.northjersey.com/page.php...VFRXl5NzIwNTc2MyZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=
Oct 10 http://www.northjersey.com/page.php...VFRXl5NzIwNTg1NSZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=
Oct 31 http://www.northjersey.com/page.php...VFRXl5NzIxNTI4NiZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=
A judge on Tuesday ordered that a Cliffside Park ex-convict continue to be held on $150,000 bail while investigators determine whether he had anything to do with his girlfriend's disappearance.
Superior Judge Harry G. Carroll acknowledged that the bail could be viewed as excessive considering the minor drug and fraud charges Hugues Francois faces.
But the judge said he was keeping the amount at $150,000 because the state's case against Francois in the Sept. 14 disappearance of Thalia Stathis appears to be getting "stronger."
Francois, who previously served 10 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter, has been called a "person of interest" by prosecutors in the Stathis case.
Lab results from blood found in the trunk of his car didn't produce a match, but it is "consistent" with Stathis' DNA, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Catherine Fantuzzi told the judge Tuesday.
more at link