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Mitrice Richardson - Photo
Mitrice Richardson - Photo
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Updated: Sunday, 25 Oct 2009, 1:35 AM PDT
Published : Saturday, 10 Oct 2009, 8:27 PM PDT
Posted by: Scott Coppersmith
Malibu (myFOXla.com) - Friends and family of a South Los Angeles woman who went missing
after being released from the Malibu-Lost Hills sheriff's station
rallied at the sheriff's station today.
Mitrice Richardson, 24, was arrested Sept. 16 at Geoffrey's
restaurant in Malibu, where she was acting strangely and was unable
to pay her $89 bill.
Sheriff's deputies also found a small amount of marijuana in
her car, and the Cal State Fullerton graduate, who passed a
sobriety test, was booked at the sheriff's station and then
released about 1:25 a.m., according to the sheriff's department.
Her 1990 Honda Civic was impounded, and she walked away from
the station with no cell phone.
A homeowner on Cold Canyon Road reported a woman resting in
her yard about 6:30 a.m., but when deputies arrived, the woman was
gone.
Her father, Michael Richardson, organized today's rally
hoping to get authorities to do more to find his daughter, whom he
believes may be having mental problems. He has also set up a Web
site at
www.findmitrice.info .
Two searches were conducted in the area stretching from
Calabasas to the coast over consecutive weekends, but Richardson
was not found, despite reports that she had been spotted everywhere
from Los Angeles to Orange County and as far away as San Jose.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is offering a
$10,000 reward for information on Richardson's whereabouts.
The missing woman's mother told the
Orange County
Register she believed her daughter was in a "manic state of
mind" because she was sending "erratic" text messages to family and
friends the afternoon of Sept. 16.
But sheriff's spokesperson Steve Whitmore had said there was
no reason to hold Richardson because she did not appear to be
mentally ill or intoxicated and signed several release forms.
Richardson is black, 5 feet 5 inches and about 125 pounds
with tattoos on her lower abdomen and behind her neck. She was last
seen wearing a brown Bob Marley T-shirt and blue jeans.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts was asked to
call Los Angeles police at (213) 485-2531.