Aug 25, 2008 7:22 pm US/Eastern
Search For Lynn Boy Takes Crews Back To Cemetery
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Giovanni is pictured here with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez.
WBZ
Investigators have returned to a Lynn cemetery on Monday in hopes of finding clues that will lead them to 5-year-old
Giovanni Gonzalez, who has been missing for more than a week and was last seen with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez.
Police say the search at Pine Grove Cemetery was not sparked by a tip, they just want to cover as much ground as possible in their search for the missing boy.
State police and Lynn detectives searched all 250 acres of the cemetery, which is located about a half-mile from Gonzalez' home, with canines and rakes.
Meanwhile, police have obtained some disturbing evidence from Ernesto Gonzalez' Brightwood Terrace apartment.
According to a search warrant, police seized boots and jeans with red and brown stains, a mop head, a pine cleaner bottle, lighter fluid, trash bags, two knives, children's toys, a bike and a bike helmet.
The knobs on the sink in Gonzalez' apartment have also been swabbed and police have seized his computer and cell phone. Most of the evidence is at the State Police Crime Lab, but investigators with the Essex County District Attorney's Office are looking at the computer and phone.
Gonzalez has pleaded not guilty to child endangerment and is being held on $500,000 bail.
Prosecutors say Giovanni was dropped off at his father's home Aug. 15. When the boy's mother, Daisy Colon, went to pick him up two days later, Gonzalez said their son wasn't there.
Their search for Giovanni has spanned through Lynn all the way to
Puerto Rico where Ernesto Gonzalez is from. Colon has also made pleas to his family for information about her son's whereabouts.
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