CHARLOTTE — Five more law enforcement agencies have joined the hunt for a 13-year-old Lumberton girl who was kidnapped Monday morning while waiting to go to school.
Searching for Hania Noelia Aguilar as of Tuesday are the Lumberton Police Department, Robeson County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI, FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team, North Carolina SBI, North Carolina State Highway Patrol, Rockingham Police Department, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Division of Community Corrections, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to information released Tuesday by the FBI.
All agencies are following a number of leads to find Aguilar, who was kidnapped from Rosewood Mobile Home Park, located at 3381 Elizabethtown Road.
According to the FBI, investigators conducted a road block canvas Tuesday along Elizabethtown Road in Lumberton, and Highway Patrol troopers showed drivers Aguilar’s missing poster to identify people who travel that route daily and may have seen something Tuesday.
The FBI news release reads in part, “Hania was outside her home at the Rosewood Mobile Home Park located at 3525 Elizabethtown Road, Lumberton, North Carolina, on Nov. 5, 2018, just before 7 a.m. She was waiting on the rest of the family to come outside and drive to school. A witness saw a male subject dressed in all black and wearing a yellow bandana force Hania into a relative’s vehicle that was parked in the driveway. The vehicle is a green, 2002 Ford Expedition with South Carolina license plate NWS-984. The paint on the hood is peeling and there is a Clemson sticker on the rear window. An Amber Alert was issued.”
Aguilar is a Hispanic female, 5 feet tall, weighing about 126 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a blue shirt with flowers and blue jeans.
“Hania’s family is working with law enforcement and fully cooperating with investigators to locate the teen,” the FBI release reads in part. “The FBI Victim’s Assistance Specialist is also working with the family during this difficult time. Hania’s mother asks whoever took her daughter to please bring her back home.”
The 911 call about the abduction was made by a neighbor when a relative “ran over to get help,” according to the FBI release. The call came into the Robeson County Communications Center at 6:54 a.m. Monday. The female caller spoke Spanish and the dispatcher requested the assistance of a translator.
“Initial reports during the 911 described the abductor as a black male,” the FBI release reads in part. “During follow-up interviews, investigators determined the witness had not seen the race of the abductor because he was wearing all black, including long sleeves, and a yellow bandana over his face. The information was transferred to the Lumberton Police Department, who received the call at 6:58 a.m.”
The Lumberton Police Department has set up a special tip line for people to call if they have information that could investigators find Aguilar. The tip lines number is 910-272-5871. Missing posters are now available in English and Spanish on www.fbi.gov.
