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Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado

INVESTIGATING AN INTERNATIONAL MISSINGS PERSON CASE

if we could recognize Abiodun, On the last day of our investiga- not allowed access to those rec-
and show the poster to the staff tion, we went to the NNP. We ords. By this point we realized
there. We did not see him in the deliberately waited until the end that we were being given the de-
hospital and none of the staff rec- of our time in Nicaragua in case liberate runaround. As a last-
ognized him. they told us at that point to stay ditch effort, we went back to the
out of the investigation. As the local police station and dropped
City Canvassing
NNP had only produced a single- the Sub-Director General’s name.
Utilizing information captured page report to the State Depart- This got us an audience with the
during the forensic analysis of ment, we visited the closest sta- chief of that station. He let us
Abiodun’s cellphone and laptop, tion, which is where the author of into his office but posted two
we were able to create a timeline the report, Lieutenant Garcia, guards on the inside of the door.
of the places he visited in Mana- had been stationed. They told us It was very tense, and it became
gua and the surrounding areas. that he’d been transferred to po- at that point uncertain if they
We canvassed multiple hotels, lice headquarters in Managua. were going to let us leave. How-
bars, shops, and other nightlife We attempted to obtain addition- ever, he did answer some of our
areas of interest that his timeline al documentation from the inves- questions. He told us he was una-
indicated that he had gone to. We tigation, but we were told that ware of an investigation into a
found multiple people who had only Lieutenant Garcia could missing person on Apoyo La-
met or seen him, including some provide this, but that it was un- goon, and that he was unaware of
who confirmed Abiodun’s inter- likely that we would be allowed to the joint operation between the
est in ayahuasca, but uncovered enter NNP headquarters. We NNP and the Nicaraguan Navy.
no evidence or leads as to his contacted the US State Depart- This is likely to be a lie, as Lieu-
then-current whereabouts. One ment in Nicaragua, who arranged tenant Garcia reported to the
hotel manager seemed like he with the Sub-Director General of chief of that station during the
was not telling us everything, and the NNP to allow us in when we time of the investigation. He then
we later returned to him and con- arrived. We drove to the head- told us that “these matters are
vinced him to provide us the quarters and another Lieutenant best handled by professionals,
names, dates of birth, nationali- came out and refused to allow us and that it would be better for us
ties, and passport numbers of entry. We explained that we had if we returned to the United
two girls who were with Abiodun confirmation from the Sub- States”. He backpedaled a bit on
on the day of his disappearance. Director General and the US Em- his warning when we informed
We were able to later contact bassy that we were to be allowed him of the background of the two
these girls via Facebook, and it entry into the headquarters in investigators with me (FBI and
turns out they were the ones who order to interview Lieutenant DEA) and that we were there
reported him missing on the day Garcia, but the Lieutenant at the with the knowledge of the State
of his disappearance. They also gate refused. We asked instead if Department, but the message had
confirmed that they had done we could just be provided the full already been received and we
unsupervised ayahuasca with record of the investigation, and decided to leave.
Abiodun that morning prior to were referred to the “Auxilio
him going out on the lake on his General,” which is their records CONCLUSION
own. They tried to convince him department. The Lieutenant radi- While we were not able to locate
to stay, but he refused. oed ahead for us, and we drove Abiodun or determine his condi-
The NNP there. When we arrived, however, tion, we were able to find multi-
we were told that civilians were ple witnesses of Abiodun engag-

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