Aug 21, 2008 11:05 pm US/Eastern
Search For Lynn Boy Expands To Puerto Rico
LYNN (WBZ) ―
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Giovanni is pictured here with his father, Ernesto Gonzalez.
WBZ
The search for a missing boy from Lynn has expanded to
Puerto Rico.
Investigators tell WBZ's Karen Anderson FBI agents are reviewing surveillance video and talking to people at an airport there, hoping to find any trace of 5-year-old Giovanni Gonzalez.
Police followed up on a lead at Flax Pond Thursday afternoon, but learned it was not connected to the case.
Prosecutors say Giovanni was dropped off at the Lynn home of his father, Ernesto Gonzalez, on Friday August 15. When his mother, Daisy Colon, went to pick him up on Sunday, the father said their son wasn't with him.
Police say Gonzalez, 36, has been uncooperative and charged him with child endangerment. He pleaded not guilty Monday and is being held on $500,000 bail.
Gonzalez was born in Puerto Rico and has family there.
"My plea today is for Ernesto's family and for him to see if someone knows anything," Colon said Thursday. "Please talk, Ernesto, please. It has been five days and we haven't heard anything. I'm just asking him to please talk."
Investigators are also looking at surveillance tapes from Logan Airport and businesses near Ernesto Gonzalez's home in Lynn. So far, there has been no sign of the boy on any of the tapes in Massachusetts or Puerto Rico.
Authorities used a State Police helicopter and an infra-red camera to search in and around a local pond Wednesday.
Investigators are concerned for the boy's safety because the father has refused to explain how he suffered a cut on his hand.
"We're all missing you, Giovanni," Colon said. "We're all here. Everybody's looking for you. They're all doing their jobs, the police are here...So if anybody knows anything, please, I'm begging you to speak."
Giovanni is 4-feet-1 and weighs 40 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing jeans, a red shirt and "Spider Man" sandals. He was carrying a "Transformers" backpack.
He has a faded skin pigmentation mark on the lower right side of his chest and a small scar above his eyebrow.
Anyone with information is asked to call Lynn police at 781.595.2000.
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