Judge Sets Bond At $1 Million For Kidnapping Suspect
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A judge set a one million-dollar bond
today for a woman charged with kidnapping in the disappearance of a
7-year-old girl in Crittenden County. But searchers still had not
located the child who vanished Sunday.
Family friend Jo Ann Buchanan was arrested Monday on the
kidnapping charge, and investigators said today that the woman
would not speak about what may have become of Patricia Ann Miles.
The girl was last seen riding her pink bicycle to the Bufford
Grocery in Gilmore about 8:15 a.m. Sunday.
At the bond hearing, prosecutors said a witness saw Buchanan put
the girl and her bicycle into her van on Sunday morning. About 45
minutes later, another witness saw the van stopped on Arkansas 77.
It was near that spot that searchers found the bicycle and
Patricia`s shoes. Those items were found about 1 a.m. Monday.
An arraignment is set for Wednesday on the kidnapping charge.
Police say the search for the girl is continuing today in
Mississippi County.
