One Year Old Leaona Wright Missing Since 6/6/15 in Pendleton, SC (Update: Search of Waste Management of South Carolina’s Pendleton Transfer Station)(Update: Bizarre 911 Call)

A one year old Leaona Wright has been missing since Saturday morning, June 6, 2015 in Pendleton, South Carolina. The one year old little girl is about 29 pounds and was last seen wearing a long white T-shirt. Anderson County deputies told media outlets that the toddler’s mother, Kiara Sullivan, discovered her daughter gone Saturday morning. Investigators say the girl’s older sister may have opened a door and the toddler walked out and away from the Apartment building A of Edgewood Square Apartments.  The boyfriend of Leona’s mother, Travis Jones (pic), was taken into custody on Saturday morning for an outstanding bench warrant unrelated to the case. The mother was not home at the time the one year old went missing. The boyfriend was watching the child at the time of the disappearance. The police searched 2 miles in every direction of the Edgewood Square Apartments with deputies, dogs and search crews from multiple jurisdictions to no avail.

It has not been determined yet whether foul play has been involved.

Leona was reported missing from the apartment complex on Saturday morning. More than 200 deputies, firefighters and other emergency personnel from Anderson and Oconee counties spent more than five hours searching a 2-mile radius around the complex without finding the child. Reverse 911 calls also were made to residents living within 2 miles of the apartments.

The child’s mother, Kiara Sullivan, told the Independent Mail that Leona was missing when she and her boyfriend woke up at 9:25 a.m. Saturday — three hours after she had last checked on the toddler. Sullivan said her boyfriend, Travis Jones, told her he saw Leona’s 3-year-old sister, A’riel, standing in an open door at the apartment. Authorities said Leona may have walked or crawled through the door that her sister opened.

Deputies arrested Jones on Saturday on a 2013 warrant for failing to appear after release on a misdemeanor charge. Skipper said the warrant stemmed from a family court case that may have involved unpaid child support. Jones is being held without bail at the Anderson County Detention Center, jail records show.

No charges have been filed in connection with Leona’s disappearance.

Click on pic to watch VIDEO via FOX Carolina

UPDATE I: Investigators sift through trash in search for missing 1-year-old.

Sheriff’s officials investigating the disappearance of a 1-year-old girl spent Sunday morning sifting through trash from the apartment complex where the child was last seen.

Anderson County Sheriff John Skipper said he and about a dozen of his investigators failed to find anything at Waste Management of South Carolina’s Pendleton Transfer Station related to Saturday’s disappearance of Leona Wright.

A garbage truck brought the contents of a dumpster at the Edgewood Square apartment complex to the transfer station on Saturday, said Skipper, who was wearing overalls and a holding a hoe. His face glistened with sweat.

UPDATE II: Investigation continues into disappearance of Pendleton infant Continues Sunday.

The investigation into the disappearance of one-year-old Leona Wright in Pendleton continued Sunday.

Deputies are looking for Leona two miles in all directions of Cherry Street after she was reported missing around 10 a.m. on June 6. She is described as a black female, weighing 29 pounds and was last seen wearing a white sleeper t-shirt.

Lt. Josh Payne said witnesses told deputies an unsecured door to the family’s residence was left open by a 3-year-old child and Leona may have crawled away. Apartment building A of Edgewood Square Apartments was taped off on Saturday.

K-9 officers and aviation responded to the scene to aid in the search. Deputies said they are still investigating whether or not foul play is involved.

Officials from the following agencies also assisted in the search: The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, Anderson County Fire, Oconee County Emergency Services and Technical Rescue, Zion Fire Department, Belton Fire Department, Pendleton Fire Department and EMS, CERT and Mounted Search and Rescue, Sandy Springs Fire Department, the American Red Cross and MedShore EMS.

UPDATE III: 911 Call for Missing One Year Old Pendleton, SC.

Click HERE to listen t 911 call.

One Response to “One Year Old Leaona Wright Missing Since 6/6/15 in Pendleton, SC (Update: Search of Waste Management of South Carolina’s Pendleton Transfer Station)(Update: Bizarre 911 Call)”

1. brenda payne on June 15th, 2015 2:05 pm

   have they drained the pond on wood haven golf club?

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