Case for: SOFIA LUCERNO JUAREZ

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Name: SOFIA LUCERNO JUAREZ
Abduction Type: Endangered Missing
Missing since: Feb 3rd, 2003
Age: 12
Location: KENNEWICK, Washington
Height: 3'0"
Weight: approx. 33lbs
Gender: F
Race: Hispanic
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown

Distinguishing Features: AGE PROGRESSED TO 9 YEARS OLD

Additional Information

Amber Alert issued
May 1st, 2003 and closed Jun 1st, 2003
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Case Status: Missing
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Police/Missing Case Contact Info

Kennewick Police Department (Washington) 1-509-585-4208 or 1-509-628-0333

Reward Info & Contact Information

The Fraternal Order of Police Washington announced late Wednesday night it is offerning a $5000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for Sofia's disappearance.


Case Details

Shortly after 9 p.m. on February 4, 2003 she walked out of the bedroom and has not been seen or heard from since. Sofia has a mole under her left eye and at the time she disappeared her four top front teeth were missing. She was last seen wearing blue overalls, a red shirt, violet socks and white shoes.


Kennewick Police Chief Marc Harden said Sofia was playing in her bedroom , when she came out and asked her mother if she could go to the store with her grandmother's boyfriend.


When the boyfriend returned, the mother asked where her daughter was, said Harden. The boyfriend replied that the little girl was not with him, Harden added.


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Search For Sofia Juarez Leads To Prosser Farm
(Search For Sofia Juarez Leads To Prosser Farm July 6, 2005 By Bryan Johnson They searched an area behind a farm after a tip from a drug informant indicated she might have been buried there, but search came up empty so far. BENTON COUNTY - Detectives from Kennewick were joined Wednesday by investigators from the Benton County coroner's office and a forensic anthropologist from the King County Medical Examiner's office in a search of a farm near Prosser. The group is searching for a 5-year-old child who disappeared in Kennewick in Feb. 2003. Sofia Juarez was the first child in Washington state for whom an Amber Alert was issued. Police are not saying what brought them to a 43-acre farm north of Prosser in Benton County. But sources say an informant held on a drug investigation told them Juarez's body could be found in a silage area behind two homes on the property. Five cadaver dogs from King County searched the site earlier. The forensic anthropologist joined the search Wednesday as a backhoe scooped up dirt from the silage area -- dirt that was then carefully raked by detectives. Detective Sergeant Randy Maynard of the Kennewick Police Department told KOMO 4 News: "Conditions for the search are not the best." He said it's hot, the wind is blowing and the silage is in various stages of decomposition. After an eight-hour search on Wednesday, Maynard said so far they have not found any evidence to back up the tip. But he said that does not mean that the tip is false. The search ended at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, but detectives will be back at the scene Thursday and hope to complete the search this week. Detectives say they plan to meet next with the prosecutor, but that is not because they have found new evidence. The meeting is planned because the Benton County Sheriff's Office, the prosecutor and the Kennewick Police Department are working as closely together as possible in an effort to solve the two-year-old missing child mystery. http://www.komotv.com)