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[88_MALIBU]

Hey guys and Gals
Just an FYI and thank you to Sun Country

Recently a girl was abducted in the town I live in and has not been found, this happend last week. Anyways, her mom is an FA for SC, and word on the street is SC put up $100,000 reward. Prayers are appreciated.

 

[WrightAvia]

Volunteers Assist in Search for Missing UND Student

Volunteers waded through waist-deep snowdrifts and crossed frozen coulees on farmland here Sunday as the search for a missing University of North Dakota student entered its second week.

Law enforcement agencies also conducted smaller searches based on a few of the nearly 900 leads authorities have received in the case of Dru Sjodin, Grand Forks police Sgt. Michael Hedlund said.

"We're gonna find you Dru, keep hanging on," Sjodin's brother, Sven, said at a news conference Sunday. "We're just around the corner from you and we know we're gonna find you."

A team of divers from Itasca County, Minn., on Sunday joined local divers and teams from New York and Los Angeles in searches of the region's rivers and streams. Police said the U.S. Border Patrol also continued airborne searches of the area.

Sjodin, 22, of Pequot Lakes, Minn., was last seen Nov. 22 after leaving work at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks. Authorities believe she may have been abducted while she was talking to her boyfriend on her cell phone.

A signal from Sjodin's phone was last recorded by a tower near Fisher, Minn., about a dozen miles east of Grand Forks.

Although Sjodin remains classified as a missing person, "Everything I've heard, everything I've seen leads me to believe that she was (abducted)," Hedlund said.

The first of about 150 volunteers for Sunday's search showed up at Ralph Engelstad Arena at about 6:40 a.m. "I just needed to help," said Jared Voelker, of East Grand Forks, Minn.

Investigators with 20 different agencies from three states and Manitoba are working on the case. Authorities are interviewing some "people of interest," Hedlund said, but there are no suspects.

About 30 FBI agents from around the region are now working on the case, Hedlund said. "They have a pretty significant presence here now," he said.

Police Lt. Dennis Eggebraaten said some areas have been searched twice for clues to Sjodin's whereabouts.

"We felt the need to go over some areas that we've already gone over but even more intensified," he said Sunday.

Analysis of Sjodin's car, found in the Columbia Mall parking lot, has not yielded any major clues, he said.

Retailers said supplies of stun guns and pepper spray are selling fast in Grand Forks.

"I'm sure there's a lot of scared young women right now," said Greg Washburn, manager of the camping supplies department at Cabela's.

The reward being offered for Sjodin's safe return is now up to $140,000. A fund has been set up at Lakes State Bank in Pequot Lakes.

On the Net: www.finddru.com

 

[MarineGrunt]

This situation pi$$es me off to no end.

Dru was my wife's good friend and sorority sister. She also used to watch our son when we had work or class. It's very discouraging that a week has gone by and there is no sign. There was another attempted kidnapping in a town near GF. The girl ended up jumping from the moving car and got away. The authorities have said there is "no correlation" between the two incidents. I really don't understand how they can make that assumption because they don't know jack about either of these guys. I just hope the FBI plays a larger role in this and the GFPD plays a much smaller one.

 

[mainah]

What a horrible situation. Been seeing it on the news every night. Sure hope they find her soon. God be with her and her family.

 

[350DRIVER]

Prayers are surely with her family. A very attractive young girl who seems like she is just as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. The special they did on msnbc was really touching especially when they showed the students praying together.

Cheers to Sun Country for doing this, truly a class act.


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where did she work at the mall.? Seems like there has been different stories about this.

 

[TurboS7]

My daughter is in Africa now but she worked on her lingustic masters at UND a couple of summers ago. My prayers are for the family, and her.

 

[jarhead]

Arrest made tonight

Crookston man charged with kidnapping Dru Sjodin
Star Tribune

Published December 2, 2003 DRU02

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- A Crookston, Minn., man has been arrested and is facing a kidnapping charge in the disappearance of Dru Sjodin, police said.

Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 50, was arrested on Monday at 7:20 p.m. in Crookston, Grand Forks police said.

Rodriguez is being held at the Tri-County Correctional Center in Crookston, police said.

Dru Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minn., has been missing since Nov. 22, when she left her job at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks.

Police said a search for Sjodin is ongoing. Police said no further information will be released until a press briefing on Tuesday morning.

 

[schafjet]

Dru was found 2 days ago. Her funeral will be this Saturday in Northern Minnesota where she grew up. Preliminary reports show that she was murdered and dumped in a ditch. Many Sun Country Airline employees volunteered their time to search for Dru. They also gave their vacation time to Dru's mother who works as a FA at SCA, so she could stay home and find her daughter. She was able to dedicate her efforts on bringing Dru home due in part to people and a company that cares. Sun Country really showed that an airline can have a heart and does care about its employees. I look forward to my recall and working with some very classy people.