Madyun was in vallejo today keeping an eye on the search. Are extremely concerned for her safety. Her family will occur that safe and sound. Reporter the urgency to locate 15yearold pearl pinson has intensified now that investigators have determined that she is the victim of a kidnapping we are extremely concerned for her safety, we believe she is injured, her family would like her back and we want her back safe and sound reporter deputies with the Solano County Sheriffs Office continued searching the area near lewis ave in vallejo where she was last seen. Investigators say 19 yearold fernano castro was seen dragging someone matching pinsons description into a gold saturn 4 door seden. An amber alert has been issued. Investigators say the two knew each other but they are not sure the nature of the relationship we have determined that they are acquaintances anything beyond that we dont know at this point how long have you been searching this morning . All night and all morning reporter
And involve anyone. Tonight, kron fours Philippe Djegal spoke with a trafficking expert. Who is not surprised by this highprofile case. Phillipe a week in the bay area for nita belles, a far cry from a vacation away from home. i absolutely do believe the super bowl leads to an increase in Human Trafficking. Phillipe though, the oregon based Human Trafficking expert was not part of the sting operation, which led the Santa Clara County sherifs Human Trafficking task force to a motel six tuesday. ryan murphys brother was cited and, um, ryan murphy was with him, we have to wonder why. Phillipe belles says knowing that a proathelte in the Denver Broncos ryan murphy was in the area and questioned by police should sound the alarm. That no one is immune to this crime last year, we had warren sapp that was arrested. Um, years before we had eugene robinson. Phillipe managing director of the antitrafficking non profit in our backyard, belles has also authored a trafficking book under the same tit
Drive time here has gone from 21 to 30 minutes. Thats longer than it should be. Were now looking at a 50 minute drive time for the nimitz corridor commute to 880 in the southbound direction. An accident boulevard. developing news out of the south bay where a man is in the hospital with serious injuries after being shot early this morning. Kron 4s will tran is live in south san jose with more. We do know that the victim of the was an African American man andthirties. They t believe he left end of this neighborhood but for whatever reason at 3 00 in the morning on the 5100 block of snow drive he was shot at least one town treat you could see that police car parked right behind his car. They focusing on at all morning but they dont believe he was sitting inside and then he was shot on the street. So far no motive and no arrests on this case. What Police Officers are doing now is they are still here after the shooting collecting evidence 3 the walked up to that house and the garage opened
Out here and is anything changes will let you know scott rates kron 4 news. Reporter a large earthquake off the alaskan coast has triggered a tsunami warning for parts of that state. The 8. 0 magnitude quake was centered just their the Aleutian Islands. People living in a sparsely populated islands of the quick early this afternoon. The tsunami warning stamped from the island of nickel loss key to up to on the Aleutian Islands no reports of damage or injuries the folks there are on high alert tonight we will keep you posted on this developing story. Shot shaw pam new at 5 in nationwide crackdown on child sex trafficking has resulted in the rest of nearly 300 temps and the recovery of more than 150 children. You are looking at video from one of the operations that occurred here in the bay area. The crackdown is called operation Cross Country and it was conducted last week in 106 cities. Tonight kron4 dan kerman looks at the results. She reporter vicki is a sex trafficking set free and p
are live on the scene with the very latest. remember the black smoke that we were to tell you we were telling you about earlier, it has almost calm down. it is pretty much dissipated, you cannot really see any more but the firefighters are still on the scene making sure that this fire stays under control. this dark thick black smoke could be seen from miles away, large plastic containers like these that caught fire around 1:00 p.m. at this business in fairfield. this was the scene from sky for. you can see the firefighters tapping the blaze from different angles. there was concern that it was cryptograph area but the fairfield fire marshal said there were able to contain the fire to only about 5 a. in the back of the building. three fire fighters retreated from minor injuries. the cause of the fire was accidental but the fire marshal said this fire was started by employees using some type of open flame, possibly a torch. there was no damage to the structure and resident w