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The big event - April 26-27, 2009
Why the Amber Alert of HaLeigh Cummings was cancelled - and then re-instated
September 3, 2014
by Timothy Charles Holmseth
In April of 2010, the Amber Alert for HaLeigh Ann-Marie Cummings was cancelled. Major Gary Bowling, director of law enforcement, Putnam County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO), told the Palatka Daily News the Amber Alert would be cancelled due to the belief of the Sheriff’s Office that they were no longer searching for a living child. "You lose the Amber Alert out of that, but that's the only significant difference between any tool or investigative strategy that changes or diminishes," Bowling said. In late 2010 – HaLeigh Cummings’ Amber Alert was suddenly re-instated. It was the first and only time, in the history of the United States, that an Amber Alert for a missing child was cancelled, and then, subsequently, re-instated. HaLeigh’s Amber Alert was re-instated as result of a public records request shoot-out between Timothy Charles Holmseth (this author) and Lt. John Greenwood, public information officer, PCSO. Holmseth requested a police report for an emergency incident that occurred at a facility called the HaLeigh Bug Center in Satsuma, Florida, on April 27, 2009. The incident involved police and EMT’s being dispatched to the Center where Crystal Sheffield, the mother of HaLeigh Cummings, was bleeding and allegedly having a seizure. Holmseth requested the Police Report because he conducted interviews with several licensed legal professionals that claimed to be present at the scene. The witnesses Holmseth interviewed claimed to have spoken to police and EMT personnel. When Holmseth requested the police report, Lt. Greenwood told him there was no Report because, according to Greenwood, no law enforcement was present at the scene. Holmseth told Greenwood he knew for a fact the police were at the HaLeigh Bug Center on April 27, 2009, because he conducted multiple interviews with licensed legal professionals present at the scene. Holmseth provided Greenwood direct quotes taken from transcriptions of his recorded interviews. Holmseth also began to include the FBI in the on-going dispute over the records. Greenwood then ‘FOUND’ the Police Report that he initially claimed did not exist. The reason the Police Report regarding the event had been removed from the computer system and hidden from the American public, was because only a few hours prior to the violent episode at the HaLeigh Bug Center – HaLeigh Cummings had been seen at a gas station in Brunson, South Carolina – she was in a vehicle heading in the direction of Florida. THE TIGER EXPRESS GAS STATION SIGHTING Teresa Knight saw a little girl she immediately recognized as the missing child HaLeigh Cummings. The child was with a man and woman. When the man noticed Teresa Knight had recognized HaLeigh, he became visibly agitated and made the child lay down on the floor boards of the car. Teresa Knight would later identify the man as being Jeremiah Regan - the administrator of the HaLeigh Bug Center who registered a domain for a website called www.haleighbug.com that was soliciting cash donations. The vehicle exited the gas station, turned, and continued in the direction of Florida. A few hours later… On April 27, 2009 at 12:47 a.m., a 911 call was made by Sara Sheffield – she was requesting medical assistance for her sister, Crystal Sheffield, HaLeigh’s mother. Something had occurred at the HaLeigh Bug Center. Holmseth interviewed multiple witnesses, staff members, and licensed legal professionals regarding the event that culminated in the 911 call requesting an ambulance and police. TWO LITTLE GIRLS Holmseth discovered during his recorded interviews that two little girls had been present at the HaLeigh Bug Center and placed into separate vehicles and hurried off in different directions before the police and ambulance arrived. SOMEBODY IS LYING The Police Report turned over to Holmseth by Greenwood made absolutely no mention whatsoever of the licensed legal professionals that gave detailed accounts of their presence at the scene. According to the report, the only people present at the scene were Sara and Crystal Sheffield. NO SIGN OF INVESTIGATION To this day there is no sign the Sheriff’s Office of Jeff Hardy ever questioned the licensed legal professionals that openly discussed placing two separate little girls, into two separate vehicles, in two separate locations, at two separate times, shortly before the police and ambulance arrived. IMPLICATIONS After Greenwood was forced to turn over the Police Report – HaLeigh Cummings’ Amber Alert was re-instated. It's clear that one of the little girls that was placed into a car and hurried away as sirens approached was HaLeigh Cummings. The fact the Police Report was not immediately turned over when requested, but rather, had been removed from the computer system and hidden from the American public, creates the strong possibility that somebody within the PCSO has been involved in covering up the truth about HaLeigh Cummings. Not long after the records request shoot-out and Amber Alert re-instatement – Detective Peggy Cone, the lead detective on the HaLeigh Task Force quietly exited the Sheriff’s Office – it appears she was going to be fired if she didn’t retire. MORE STORIES AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS ON THIS SUBJECT The Baby (listen to Timothy Holmseth make a public records request and be told the record does not exist in the computer) (listen to William Staubs - a.k.a Cobra the Bounty Hunter descibe the event) |