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Mesa Police, Criminal Investigations 480-644-4078, Sgt. Steven Stahl, steven_stahl@mesa.ci.mesa.az.us
Police are hoping one Mesa girl's terrifying Christmas Day ordeal will help crack the disappearance of 11-year-old Mikelle Biggs.
Investigators are checking for a link between Mikelle's Jan. 2 disappearance and the attempted molestation eight days earlier of another 11-year-old girl less than a mile away.
Mesa police released a composite sketch Saturday of a man they say lured the girl behind an apartment complex in the 600 block of South Stapley Drive and tried to force her to perform oral sex on him.
"We certainly feel it's a lead," said Detective Jose Martinez, a Mesa police spokesman.
The girl escaped without performing the act on the man, who was grimy and appeared to be a transient, police said. The incident took place at 4 p.m. Dec. 25.
Police interviewed several witnesses who said they saw the man in the complex several times before the attack, Martinez said.
They have not seen the man since.
Mikelle disappeared about 6 p.m. on Jan. 2.
Police have not connected the two cases, he said.
"But there are a lot of things that concern us. The geographical location, the victims, the act," he said.
Witnesses described the man as a 5-foot, 10-inch White male in his 40s, weighing about 140 pounds. He has blond hair and brown eyes, acne scars on his face and badly decayed front teeth.
He was riding a blue mountain bike, Martinez said.
On Saturday, police set up six roadblocks near Mikelle's home to interview people who were driving through the area.
"We are just trying to duplicate last Saturday night," Martinez said.
Authorities found nothing after searching a mound of earth 15 miles north of Saguaro
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Reproduced with permission from: The Arizona Republic Written by: By Alexa Haussler ©Copyright 1999 Arizona Republic |
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