{"id":237545,"date":"2023-10-03T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=237545"},"modified":"2023-10-03T09:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T09:28:35","slug":"charlotte-sena-is-found-alive-two-days-after-nine-year-old-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/charlotte-sena-is-found-alive-two-days-after-nine-year-old-vanished\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Sena is found ALIVE two days after nine year-old vanished"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Charlotte Sena is found in CABINET in camper van owned by her &#8216;abductor&#8217; Craig Ross Jr, 47, after he left ransom note in nine year-old&#8217;s parents&#8217; mailbox, triggering SWAT helicopter rescue<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charlotte vanished while cycling on Saturday at 6.15pm in Moreau State Park<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>Craig Ross Jr, 47, is the suspect in custody. He lived inside a trailer at his mother&#8217;s property on Barrett Road in Milton, New York &#8211; where the girl was found<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A nine-year-old girl who vanished from her family holiday while riding a bike in an upstate New York park was found inside a cabinet in her abductor&#8217;s camper van.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Sena was rescued by troopers on Monday &#8211;\u00a0two days after she was snatched from\u00a0Moreau Lake State Park in Gansevoort.\u00a0She was found &#8216;in good health,&#8217; police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Craig Ross Jr, 47, was arrested and is currently under questioning. He lived inside a trailer at his mother&#8217;s property on Barrett Road in\u00a0Milton, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Police found little Charlotte covered up and hidden in a cabinet on Monday afternoon, Gov. Kathy Hochul\u00a0revealed at a press conference. Hochul said the youngster immediately realized she was being rescued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two SWAT teams &#8211; one state and one federal &#8211; swooped on the property in helicopters, with Ross said to have put up a struggle. He is being questioned and has yet to be charged with a crime, although Hochul says she expects that to follow soon. No mugshot has been released and there is no indication that Ross knew his victim&#8217;s family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ross Jr. drove up to Sena&#8217;s parents&#8217; home at 4.20am Monday morning and left a ransom note inside their mailbox, Hochul said, which was covered in his DNA and fingerprints. hey weren&#8217;t home at the time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At 2.30pm Monday, investigators finally found a match in the database and linked the fingerprints to a DWI arrest made in\u00a0Saratoga County in the 1999. From there, they swooped on Ross Jr&#8217;s camper van, arrested him, and found the missing girl.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops confirmed Ross Jr is not a registered sex offender, but did not reveal a motive. Earlier reports suggested the suspect taken into custody was a 51 year-old local pedophile who was not named, although that was corrected when the alleged abductor&#8217;s real identity came to light.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte was taken to\u00a0Albany Medical Center Hospital after being found. She is said to be in good physical health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76069289-12586615-Nine_year_old_Charlotte_Sena_has_been_missing_since_Saturday_nig-a-98_1696288329983.jpg\" height=\"1023\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Sena was found &#8216;alive and safe&#8217; on Monday &#8211; two days after she was snatched from Moreau Lake State Park in Gansevoort. She\u00a0was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital after being found<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/04\/76096521-12586615-image-a-13_1696303674301.jpg\" height=\"909\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The suspect&#8217;s camper, seen bottom left, is next to his mother&#8217;s house in Milton, NY<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/04\/76096337-12586615-image-a-9_1696302794939.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed how troopers swooped in and found the little girl on Monday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76082439-12586615-image-a-18_1696289156782.jpg\" height=\"385\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Sena was last seen cycling around Loop A in the Moreau Lake State Park in upstate New York near Saratoga Springs<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are believed to be focused on the theory that Charlotte was pulled into a vehicle against her will or dragged into the woods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said just after 7pm: &#8216;Charlotte has been found safe and in good health.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York State Police were previously confident Charlotte was abducted from Moreau Lake State Park. She was last seen wearing a tie-dye\u00a0Pokemon\u00a0shirt, dark blue pants, black crocs, gray bike helmet on Saturday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The girl was found about 13 miles south of her family home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The multi-agency search &#8211; which spanned 46 miles and included 400 search personnel and dozens of federal, state, and local bodies on the ground &#8211; ended today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte was cycling alone on Loop A of Moreau Lake State Park in New York near Saratoga Springs when she vanished at 6.15pm on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She had been playing with friends throughout the day but decided to cycle alone, one last time, before the sun went down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It should have only taken a few minutes for to complete the small loop. At 6.30pm, her parents realized she hadn&#8217;t returned and grew worried.\u00a0By 6.47pm, they had found Charlotte&#8217;s bike on the loop and called 911.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76069281-12586615-Charlotte_is_90lbs_and_5ft_1in_tall_Her_family_say_she_is_trusti-a-17_1696289149569.jpg\" height=\"567\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Police found little Charlotte covered up and hidden in a cabinet on Monday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/01\/76093585-12586615-image-a-28_1696292047869.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte&#8217;s relieved family held an impromptu press conference and thanked people for their help<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/03\/00\/76069947-12586615-Charlotte_far_right_as_a_younger_child_with_her_mother_Trisha_fa-a-24_1696290372236.jpg\" height=\"639\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte (far right) as a younger child with her mother Trisha, father David and sisters<\/p>\n<p>A frantic search was launched for the child, for whom an Amber Alert was issued on Sunday morning after rangers searched the 6,250-acre park and found no sign of her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are 158 camping sites in the park. Loop A sits in the southwest corner of the park and is directly adjacent to US Highway 9 &#8211; which runs all the way from Philadelphia to Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York Gov. Hochul said on Monday night: &#8216;We are overjoyed at the news that Charlotte Sena has been located safely this evening after an intense days-long search.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Our hearts are with her family as they welcome her home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Thank you to the New York State Police, New York Park Police and all who worked so tirelessly to find Charlotte.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is because of their efforts that Charlotte will be able to return home safe to her family.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12586615\/Charlotte-Sena-ALIVE-two-days-nine-year-old-vanished-riding-bike-upstate-New-York-park.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Sena is found in CABINET in camper van owned by her &#8216;abductor&#8217; Craig Ross Jr, 47, after he left ransom note in nine year-old&#8217;s parents&#8217; mailbox, triggering SWAT helicopter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charlotte Sena is found ALIVE two days after nine year-old vanished - lovemainstream.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/charlotte-sena-is-found-alive-two-days-after-nine-year-old-vanished\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charlotte Sena is found ALIVE two days after nine year-old vanished - lovemainstream.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Charlotte Sena is found in CABINET in camper van owned by her &#8216;abductor&#8217; 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