Alycia Mesiti, 14, [REMAINS DISCOVERED] 8-14-06 Ceres, CA

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Endangered Runaway
ALYCIA MESITI

DOB: Nov 8, 1991
Missing: Aug 14, 2006
Height: 5'2" (157 cm)
Eyes: Brown
Race: White
Age Now: 17
Sex: Female
Weight: 115 lbs (52 kg)
Hair: Brown
Missing From:
CERES
CA
United States
Alycia may still be in the local area. Her ears are pierced.



ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)

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Ceres Police Department (California) 1-209-538-5712


http://www.missingkids.com/missingki...=en_US&f=CAMOD

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Monday, Sep. 29, 2008

$5,000 offered to find Ceres teen missing since August 2006

The Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation is offering $5,000 for information leading to the location of a 16-year-old girl who disappeared two years ago after telling her parents she was going camping.

Alycia Mesiti was reported missing Aug. 16, 2006, according to Ceres police Sgt. Allen McKay.

Police say Alycia and her family had moved recently from San Jose to Ceres, and that the teenager was having trouble adjusting to life in the valley.

On Aug. 11, Alycia returned to San Jose to spend the weekend with a friend, McKay said. On Aug. 13, she called her family to say she had gone camping with other friends, but would not tell her parents who they were or where she had gone.

That was the last time anyone heard from her, McKay said.

There has been no activity on her My- Space account or cell phone since Aug. 13, and police believe her disappearance is suspicious.

Family members say Alycia's disappearance was out of character for her.

She is described as about 5 feet 3 inches tall and 120 to 130 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Authorities ask anyone with information about Alycia's location to call Ceres police Detective Mark Neri at 538-5730.

Bee staff writer Emilie Raguso can be reached at eraguso@modbee.com or 578-2235.

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/446034.html

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Remains removed from Ceres home where missing teen lived

Thursday, Mar. 26, 2009

CERES — Stanislaus County Coroner's officials recovered today what they believe are human remains from the yard behind a Ceres home where a teenage girl who has been missing since 2006 used to live.

Authorities are trying to determine if the remains are those of Alycia Mesiti, who was 14 when she disappeared.

Alycia was last seen in Ceres on Aug. 14, 2006. According to a missing persons flier, she told her parents she was going camping with two friends, but wouldn’t say who they were or where they were going. She took a bag of clothes and her pet Chihuahua, the flier said, adding that it was believed she left of her own accord.


Modesto Bee - Sgt Patrick Sullivan with the Ceres Police Department holds a tarp as a bobcat replaces dirt from a hole dug by law enforcement in the backyard of a home in the 3000 block of Alexis Avenue in Ceres. Remains were found and the coroner is currently trying to determine if they are human.

Agents spent most of the night working at the home on Alexis Avenue, near Sinclair Elementary School.

Police said they started digging after receiving a tip, but they would not elaborate.

An excavator was brought to the home to fill in the hole where investigators had dug up the remains, which will undergo forensic examination.

Alycia's family no longer lives at the house, which has been vacant for several months.

Asked about the police activity on the street, neighbor Joshua Charlton said: "They told me it had something to do with a cold case from 2006. They did find something in the back yard, and the coroner was there.”

Charlton lives across the street from the house where the remains were discovered. His mother, Judy, confirmed that Alycia had lived in the house when shown a flier about the missing girl.

http://www.modbee.com/2391/story/643695.html

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Unknown - Missing Person Flyer for Alycia Mesiti offering a $5,000 reward.Has been missing since 08/15/2006 from the Ceres Ca. Area.

http://www.modbee.com/2391/story/643695.html

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Name: Alycia Mesiti

Remains revocered from Ceres home where missing teen lived
Mar. 26, 2009

CERES — Stanislaus County Coroner's officials recovered today what they believe are human remains from the yard behind a Ceres home where a teenage girl who has been missing since 2006 used to live.

Authorities are trying to determine if the remains are those of Alycia Mesiti, who was 14 when she disappeared.

Alycia was last seen in Ceres on Aug. 14, 2006. According to a missing persons flier, she told her parents she was going camping with two friends, but wouldn’t say who they were or where they were going. She took a bag of clothes and her pet Chihuahua, the flier said, adding that it was believed she left of her own accord.

Investigators spent most of the night working at the home on Alexis Court, near Sinclear Elementary School, in south Ceres, west of Highway 99.

Police said they started digging after receiving a tip, but they would not elaborate.

An excavator was brought to the home to fill in the hole where investigators had dug up the remains, which will undergo forensic examination.

Alycia's family no longer lives at the house, which has been vacant for several months.

Asked about the police activity on the street, neighbor Joshua Charlton said: "They told me it had something to do with a cold case from 2006. They did find something in the back yard, and the coroner was there.”

Charlton lives across the street from the house where the remains were discovered. His mother, Judy, confirmed that Alycia had lived in the house when shown a flier about the missing girl.

http://www.modbee.com/crime/story/643695.html

[sarahhod]

Saturday, Mar. 28, 2009

Police mum on body unearthed in Ceres

Story of missing girl beginning to emerge

By Rosalio Ahumada
rahumada@modbee.com


CERES -- Police remained tight-lipped about an investigation into a body found buried in a home's back yard as details emerged about a missing teenage girl who once lived there.
Authorities unearthed the body Wednesday at the home in the 3500 block of Alexis Court in Ceres. Alycia Mesiti was 14 years old and living with her father and older brother at the home when she disappeared in August 2006.
Ceres police have said Alycia was having trouble adjusting to life in the valley when her family moved there several months before she disappeared.




Ceres Police Sgt. Patrick Sullivan holds a tarp as a Bobcat replaces dirt from a hole dug by law enforcement in the back yard of a home in the 3500 block of Alexis Court in Ceres. Remains found in the yard may be connected to a missing girl case. (Joan Barnett Lee / The Modesto Bee.


The home's owners said the family moved there without the girl's mother, and school officials confirmed that the girl was attending high school in Santa Cruz while her father and brother lived in Ceres. It was unclear where she was living at the time.
Police said Thursday that the body may be connected to the missing girl, but authorities could not confirm that Friday. Police would not say Friday whether the body had been identified.
"I do not want to answer that question at this time," said Deputy Police Chief Mike Borges. "We do not want to alert anyone who might be responsible for this death."
No other details are expected until Monday.
Police would not say whether they had identified any suspects, whether they had contacted anyone who might have lived at the home and whether they had determined the gender of the body.
The Bee called members of Alycia's extended family in Santa Cruz and San Jose on Friday, but they declined to comment.
Some people who had met Alycia spoke about her and her family Friday.
In December 2005, Alycia, her father and her brother moved to the Alexis Court home owned by Mercedes Macias and Sergio Ponce. The owners said the family rented the house. The family previously had lived in San Jose.
Macias said the girl's mother was not around when the family moved in. She said she was told that the mother was supposed to move in, but that never happened.
Macias and Ponce did not know whether the girl's parents were separated or in the process of a divorce. Macias said Alycia's brother was two years older than his sister, and the two teens were well-behaved.
"She was a nice little girl, and she walked to the nearby park with her little Chihuahua," Macias said. "She would sometimes drop off the rent check for her father."
On Sept. 15, 2005, Alycia's father had enrolled her at Central Valley High School, but she never attended, said Jay Simmonds, Ceres Unified School District spokesman.
District officials on Oct. 6, 2005, received a request for Alycia's school records from Harbor High School in Santa Cruz, saying she was attending school there. Santa Cruz City School District officials did not return phone calls Friday afternoon.
It was unclear where Alycia was living while she attended school in Santa Cruz, but police have said she was living in Ceres when she went out of town for a weekend trip in August 2006 and never returned.
On Aug. 11, 2006, Alycia returned to San Jose to spend the weekend with a friend, police have said.
On Aug. 13, she called her family to say she had gone camping with other friends, but would not tell her family who the friends were or where she had gone. That was the last time anyone heard from her. She was reported missing Aug. 16.
Family left home in December '06
Ponce said Alycia's family had a one-year rental agreement that expired Dec. 31, 2006, the day they moved out. He said Alycia's father barely mentioned his daughter's disappearance.
"He didn't say a lot about it," Ponce said. "He kind of looked upset and stressed out. He said they wanted to move back to the Bay Area."
The homeowners said they did not know where Alycia's father and her brother moved.
Two tenants have rented the Ceres home since then, Ponce said. The home has been vacant since the fall.
Judy Charlton, who lives across the street, said she remembers seeing Alycia in front of the home, but she did not remember seeing the girl's parents.
"(The residents in the neighborhood) didn't even know a girl was missing," Charlton said Friday. "I find it extremely strange that a girl was missing and we didn't see anyone, the family or police, knocking on doors looking for this girl."
Ceres Police Chief Art de Werk said Alycia was reported as a runaway, and there was no indication of foul play.
Had police known there was a possibility someone might be responsible for her disappearance, de Werk said, officers would have knocked on neighborhood doors and used other methods to find the teen.
He said Ceres police get 250 to 300 reports of runaway children each year, and most of the time the children return home on their own.


http://www.modbee.com/local/story/645550.html

[packy]

Hope they will confirm an identity soon.

Interesting how neighbors said no one ever knocked on their doors to ask about a missing girl.

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Human Remains ID'd As Missing Ceres Teen
Body Unearthed At Vacant Home
POSTED: 12:00 pm PDT March 30, 2009
UPDATED: 12:11 pm PDT March 30, 2009

CERES, Calif.-- The remains of a missing teenage girl were found in the yard of her Ceres home, police there confirmed, and her father is considered a possible suspect in the case.

Alycia Mesiti was 15 when she disappeared on Aug. 14, 2006. Her father's girlfriend, Shelly Welborn, reported her missing.

Mesiti was suspected of leaving with friends on a camping trip, but Welborn could not specify where the teen had gone. Her father, Mark Mesiti, he did not offer any new information, police said.

The family no longer lives at the home on Alexis Court, which has been vacant for several months. Since Mesiti's disappearance, two separate families lived at the home.

Investigators began digging last Wednesday after receiving a tip. The Stanislaus County Coroners office positively identified the remains as Mesiti.

Ceres police, with help from the Los Angeles Police Department, served a search warrant at Mark Mesiti's Los Angeles home.

Investigators said they discovered a working methamphetamine lab in the home, so Mesiti and Welborn were taken into custody by Los Angeles authorities on drug and child endangerment charges. Welborn's 12-year-old daughter also lived at this home.

No charges have been filed against Mark Mesiti regarding the Alycia Mesiti case, Ceres police said. However, he is considered a possible suspect.

http://www.kcra.com/news/19047022/detail.html

[Lizziebeth]

Rest In Peace Alycia

[grammybears]

This poor girl. In all of this I have not read anything about Alycia's mother. She was supposed to move in the house with the family but never did. That along with the story about the camping trip sends off warning bells to me. I hope the LE can gather enough information to charge whoever did this and get a conviction.