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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Authorities person confirmed that the assemblage of missing Selma pistillate Jolissa Fuentes has been found.
During a property league Tuesday morning, officials with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office and Selma Police Department announced that the assemblage of the 22-year-old had been recovered successful a agrarian country of Fresno County northbound of Pine Flat Lake.
Officials said the find came aft Selma Police Chief Rudy Alcaraz recovered grounds that Fuentes’ car had gone disconnected the roadway successful the country of Trimmer Springs and Maxon roads, northbound of Pine Flat Lake.
“He personally recovered the country of the accident. He went up to the mountains yesterday connected his own. He researched areas that had already been searched, and connected his own, helium really recovered the country of the accident,” said Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims astir Chief Alcaraz.
Chief Alcaraz alerted the sheriff’s bureau – and hunt and rescue teams repelled implicit 400 feet down the cliff to retrieve Fuentes’ assemblage Monday night, according to officials.
The origin of the clang is inactive nether investigation, but officials said they judge Fuentes was astir apt bushed aft being up passim the night.
The agrarian country of Pine Flat Lake had antecedently been searched by instrumentality enforcement, but Chief Alcaraz said it was hard for crews to comb done the dense brushwood and trees on the cliff wherever Fuentes was found.
“Search and rescue was down 200 feet and we couldn’t adjacent spot them anymore, adjacent with their flashlights,” recalled Chief Alcaraz.
Members of Fuentes’ family, including her parents Norma Nunez and Joey Fuentes, stood alongside instrumentality enforcement during the announcement that Jolissa’s assemblage had been found.
“When this archetypal happened with my daughter, I talked to Chief Alcaraz, I told him man-to-man, ‘I’m talking to you. Do you person a daughter? Do you person children?’’ said Joey portion warring done tears. “He told me, ‘yes, I bash Joey.’ I go, ‘I privation you to spell aft my girl similar she’s your girl chief.’ You cognize what helium told me? ‘I committedness you Joey, I committedness you. I volition find your daughter.’”
Joey besides took a infinitesimal during the property league to convey those crossed the state who had joined successful the hunt for his daughter.
“I privation to convey the community, not conscionable the community, this full nation. The cries and the symptom of my woman and my sisters and my household was heard astir this full country,” said Joey.
Investigators had been searching for Fuentes for 2 months since she was reported missing connected Sunday, August 8. Fuentes was past seen astatine 4:00 a.m. connected August 7 arsenic she was driving distant from an ampm store astatine an Arco state presumption adjacent Nebraska and Highland avenues.
Detectives with the Selma Police Department had carried retired a hunt warrant for compartment telephone records the time Fuentes was reported missing. Over the past 2 months, officers had been going implicit the information recovered during the hunt warrant, but determination was precise small telephone enactment aft August 8.
Officers with the California Highway Patrol volition beryllium moving to retrieve Fuentes’ car from the cliffside.
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