Putnam pond being drained

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BREAKING NEWS

Satsuma, FL– In the latest developments in the case of missing 6 year old Satsuma girl Haleigh Cummings, deputies are searching the woods and draining a pond on Stokes Landing Road.



Neighbors have reported the roads to the pond have been blocked off, and the crew draining the pond have been on scene since Police dive teams were deployed to the pond Friday morning.

This development comes on the heels of the arrest of Hank Croslin, Misty Cummings brother less than 24 hours earlier on an unrelated firearms charge.

Hank Croslin’s wife Lindsay, his sister and Haleigh Cummings step-mother, Misty Cummings, were at Satsuma Police HQ Friday morning.

There are unconfirmed rumors that Misty Cummings is in police custody. Recently, Misty Cummings sought the help of Texas Equusearch founder Tim Miller. Through the efforts of TES attorney Mark Nejame, Misty took a series of lie detector tests Miller said she failed miserably.

Reached for comment this morning, Mark Nejame told blinkoncrime.com the pond was in fact being drained, but had no new information.

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/9/19/lake_drained_to_look_for_haleigh.html
Lake Drained To Look For Haleigh
Saturday, September 19, 2009 7:04:50 AM
Reported by Mark Jenkins

PALATKA -- Putnam County deputies began draining a lake in search of new clues in the case of missing 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings.

Investigators have not said much about the new search, other than it is focused around the lake in a rural area north of the girl’s Satsuma home.
Divers have spent the last two days searching the lake, and later started draining water in hopes of finding new clues.

Haleigh Cummings has not been seen since Feb. 9, when deputies said she was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night.

Investigators spent the days and weeks following her disappearance searching for the girl and collecting tips.

Deputies interviewed all registered sex offenders in the Satsuma area, but all were cleared.

Searchers have checked several ponds in the seven months since Haleigh disappeared, but this marks the first time they have drained one.

Haleigh’s family marked her sixth birthday in August.