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foreign [Music] to a 14 year old from the Newtown neighborhood of Sarasota Still Remains
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missing tonight the best span was last seen back on Labor Day along 23rd Street in Sarasota ABC 7's Rick Adams joins us
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live tonight from Sarasota Police Headquarters with more in the story Rick its appearance worst nightmare having
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her child vanish off the face of the Earth tawanus man's 14 year old son Jabez has been missing now since
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September 4th span her boyfriend and other family members are pleading for information to find him and hopefully a
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safe return home if there's anybody that know anything like don't just lay him it
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was something don't just let him just be out there like that chabez was last seen
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playing near his grandmother's house in the 1500 Block of 23rd Street in Sarasota the Sarasota Police Department
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are following All Leads and asking the community for their assistance we have done searches grid searches we have
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tried pinging his phone we have followed up leads at this point we know and believe that there are people within our
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community that has information about this young man in his whereabouts in fact the Ping to jabez's cell phone
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tracked it to an undisclosed wooded area near Sarasota but police weren't able to
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find the phone or any evidence of him being there and one of the ways the community is trying to help is they're
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going door to door and store to store with Flyers like this groups are now going out daily handing out hundreds of
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these flyers with the hopes they get in the hands of somebody who knows something this is an additional another
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opportunity for the community to come together and to support one another to show love to collaborate you know to do
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what's right Jabez span is described as a bright teen who is very athletic he is
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between five feet seven inches and five feet nine inches tall weighing 120 to 130 pounds with black hair and brown
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eyes he was last seen wearing a turquoise shirt somebody gotta know some something somebody has to know something
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where this boy is and if you know more information on jabessa's whereabouts are being asked to contact authorities
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immediately reporting live from downtown Sarasota this evening I'm Rick Adam Scott back to you all right Rick thanks
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so much for that update [Music] this week we are discussing the case of Jabez Eugene Spann who in 2017 was a 14
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year old boy living in the Newtown area of Sarasota Florida