MAN'S DISAPPEARANCE WORRIES FAMILY, PALS.Byline: Holly Edwards Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Authorities are searching for a Santa Clarita man who mysteriously disappeared more than a week ago after he went to collect a $1,000 debt, friends and family members said Tuesday. James Clement From South Fremantle, The Fremantle Dockers picked Clement up as a zone selection in the 1995 National Draft. , 32, has been missing since April 17, when he drove to a Saugus condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. complex to meet a Lancaster man who owed him money, said Richard Kronen, a longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective friend of Clement's. While Kronen blasted Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. officials for dragging their feet on the case, investigators said they are doing the best they can with little information. ``We've been investigating this since day one and still don't have a solid lead,'' said Sgt. Delores Scott of the Sheriff's Department's missing persons unit. Investigators were expected to activate the anti-theft device in Clement's 1996 Ford Ranger The Ford Ranger name is used on two distinct and unrelated pickup truck lines by the Ford Motor Company
Clement, a construction worker for local filming studios, had been selling glass water pipes to the man in the months before his disappearance, Kronen said. He was last seen by a friend just after 3 p.m. April 17 at the condominium complex where he was supposed to meet the man. Clement called his wife three times that day, but after 3:40 p.m., there is no record of incoming or outgoing calls on the cell phone. But there was a threatening message left on Clement's cellular phone by an unknown man saying, 'If you want to bring it on, you better bring it on strong,' '' Kronen said. Clement's wife saw his pickup truck on the evening he disappeared and again the following morning a few blocks away, Kronen said. However, when she returned the following evening to have it towed, it was gone. The longer Clement is Clem·ent I , Saint Known as "Clement of Rome." Died c. a.d. 97. Pope (88-97) who was one of the Apostolic Fathers and the author of the First Epistle to the Corinthians (c. 96). missing, Kronen said, the more his family fears something terrible has happened to him - and that their lives could be in danger. ``He lived for his three kids and he loved his wife dearly,'' Kronen said. ``And if someone killed him, they have his car keys. And if they have his car keys, they have his house keys.'' |
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