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Saturday 26 May 2018

Police: Body identified as missing 5-year-old Kansas boy

has been missing since Feb- body so quickly when po- actually use "lesser aggres-
ruary, police said Friday. lice have been searching sive tactics toward people"
Law enforcement officers unsuccessfully for months, than police.
were called to the scene in Ramsay would only say "I just call it being nice, I call
Harvey County on Thursday that police are bound by it being civil. It's just the way
night after Lucas' 27-year- "very strict rules" that do not I do things," Marshburn said.
old stepmother, Emily Glass, apply to private citizens. "It's hard to describe and it's
led a private investigator to Marshburn, who owns hard to say ... I am not gon-
the remains near the town Marshburn's Investigation na to spill the secret of how
of Sedgwick, about 20 Agency, told The Associ- we do it."
miles (32 kilometers) north ated Press in a phone in- Marshburn declined to talk
of Wichita, Wichita Police terview as he was driving about Glass' reaction at
Chief Gordon Ramsay said back to North Carolina that the scene for fear of jeop-
at a news conference. he spent less than 11 hours ardizing the prosecution's
The investigator, David with Glass before finding case. He also refused to
Marshburn, called police the body. say whether Glass had told
about the body and offi- Law enforcement officials him what happened to the
In this May 16, 2018, file photo, Emily Glass appears in Sedgwick cers met him and Glass at have to consider a sus- boy. He said it took him and
County District Court in Wichita, Kan. (Travis Heying/The Wichita the scene. Marshburn said pect's constitutional rights Ward about four hours to
Eagle via AP, File) he was hired by the boy's — such as reading them actually find the body af-
father. He told police he ar- their Miranda rights against ter they got to the general
By ROXANA HEGEMAN central Kansas was identi- rived in Wichita from Smith- self-incrimination — and area, and had to work off
Associated Press fied through an autopsy field, North Carolina, this all that is intimidating to clues rather than go right to
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A and dental records as that week, Ramsay said. somebody, Marshburn it. They drove around with
small, decomposing body of 5-year-old Lucas Her- Pressed as to how Marsh- said, adding that he and Glass as they talked and
found under a bridge in nandez, a Wichita boy who burn was able to locate the his assistant, Marsha Ward, looked, he said.q

Alberto it is: First named tropical system chugs toward Gulf

Associated Press storm watch for parts of the ern Florida. Residents in a less defined and cool- The downpours could
MIAMI (AP) — A storm mov- Gulf Coast from the Florida the storm's expected path er center than a tropical dampen Memorial Day,
ing slowly through the Ca- Panhandle southwest of were advised to monitor storm, and its strongest the unofficial start of the
ribbean Sea is threaten- Tallahassee to the New Or- the storm's progress. winds are found farther summer tourist season
ing to bring heavy rainfall, leans metropolitan area. "Flooding potential will in- from its center. Subtropi- along Gulf beaches. Along
mudslides, and flash floods At 5 p.m. EDT, the National crease across this region cal storms can develop with heavy rains and high
to parts of Mexico, Cuba, Hurricane Center in Mi- early next week as Alberto into tropical storms, which winds come rough seas
Florida and the U.S. Gulf ami said Alberto was cen- is forecast to slow down af- in turn can strengthen into and a threat of rip currents
Coast this weekend. tered about 85 miles (135 ter it moves inland," the hur- hurricanes. Alberto comes from Florida to Louisiana
Subtropical Storm Alberto km) southeast of Cozumel, ricane center said. ahead of schedule: the that can sweep swimmers
— the first named storm Mexico. Its top sustained The National Weather six-month hurricane season out to sea. Red flags warn-
of the 2018 hurricane sea- winds were 40 mph (65 Service said a flash flood doesn't begin until June 1. ing of dangerous surf con-
son — was roiling parts of kph). A gradual strengthen- watch would be in effect Parts of Florida, Georgia, ditions are already flying
coastal Mexico and Cuba ing was expected through from Saturday evening Alabama, Mississippi and along some beaches. Jor-
with rip currents and dan- the weekend as it moves through Tuesday evening Louisiana have already dan Sawmiller of Ohio tells
gerous surf on Friday. Both north. for southeastern Mississippi, seen heavy rain this week, WALA-TV that he was ap-
countries issued tropical The U.S. was expected to southwestern Alabama, and further deluges could proaching the water with
storm watches for portions start feeling Alberto's ef- and the western Florida leave those areas vul- caution in Gulf Shores, Ala-
of their coastlines, with rain fects Saturday. The hurri- Panhandle. A storm surge nerable to flash flooding bama. "It will hit you pretty
totals in some isolated ar- cane center said up to 12 watch was also issued for and river flooding. Some hard . and it sucks you right
eas of up to 25 inches. inches of rain was possible parts of Florida, Alabama, beachfront and riverfront back out. So, I don't like
U.S. forecasters followed across the Florida Keys and Mississippi and Louisiana. communities are already getting in there very far,"
suit by issuing a tropical southern and southwest- A subtropical storm has handing out sandbags. Sawmiller said.q