I just saw a new thread that was started in reference to 2 missing boys in Newport News. Let me just say that unless they have found the boys by the time Nancy Grace tapes her show tomorrow night SHE BETTER discuss this so it gets the national attention it deserves just the same as Caylee's case did three years ago.
Newport News police are looking for two missing children that they say may have been abducted Sunday afternoon.
According to a news release, at about 12:30 p.m. an unknown woman walked into the Shell gas station at 9082 Warwick Blvd. and bought a pack of cigarettes.
The woman asked to use a phone so she could call someone to give her a ride to North Carolina. The clerk working at the station, Yovonda Bennafield, said she could give her a ride to North Carolina when she got off work and asked the stranger to watch her two children until she was finished.
Bennafield, who lives in Newport News, then gave the woman the keys to her vehicle and asked if the unknown woman could take Bennafield's children to the park, according to police. The unknown woman then left with the keys to Bennafield's gold Ford Explorer with Virginia license plate "MISPOOH" and was last seen driving south on Warwick Boulevard. When the unknown woman didn't return at 3 p.m. when Bennafield's shift ended, she called police.
Lou Thurston, a spokesman for Newport News police, said that when police questioned Bennafield, she said she did not know the woman.
"The clerk said she did not know the woman and doesn't know her name," Thurston said.
Newport News Park Rangers checked the city's parks and did not find the vehicle.
The children are identified as Dante Blockett, 6, and Ta-vyion Blockett, 5. Ta-vyion weighs 48 pounds and has a short afro and was wearing black jeans, a blue shirt and black sneakers. Dante weighs 48 pounds and was wearing a white-collared striped shirt, black jeans and white sneakers.
The unknown woman was described as a black female with an afro and in her mid-20's. She was wearing a hat, black shoes, a black long sleeve shirt and possibly jeans. Anyone who sees the vehicle is asked to call police at 757-247-2500. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Late Sunday evening Virginia State Police issued an Amber Alert for the children