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Old 06-24-2008, 07:41 AM
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June 18, 2008 DELAND - Police have found 2 children who were reported missing from Central Florida.

The Amber Alert was canceled for 12-year-old Angela Ragins and 14-year-old James Ragins.

Authorities say the two were found safe in Volusia County after a resident recognized them from the alert and notified police.
The children were reported missing from the DeLand area earlier that day.

Meanwhile, their father, 36-year-old James Ragins, is being questioned by police.

Authorities say officers had responded to a domestic battery call with the father and his girlfriend.

He also called her making statements that led authorities to believe the children were in danger.

The observant eye of a Marion County code-enforcement officer led Volusia County Sheriff's deputies to a Lake County man, James Ragins, wanted in an Amber Alert case.
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Based on a call from Ragins' girlfriend, the Lake County Sheriff's Office thought Ragins' two children, who were with him, might be in danger.

The morning of June 18, Code Enforcement Officer Jennifer Kelly was on her way from Marion County to a conference in Daytona Beach when she heard the Amber Alert on a commercial radio station, she told The Beacon.

"I looked, and there the vehicle was," Kelly said. Ragins was parked at the Hess Food Mart on the corner of Spring Garden Avenue and West New York Avenue in DeLand.

Kelly, who is also a reserve law-enforcement officer, confirmed the tag number and called 911.

She followed the Chevy sport utility, reporting the SUV's movements to Volusia County deputies via telephone.

Ragins apparently realized Kelly was following him, in her conspicuous code-enforcement vehicle, and, she said, he turned around or changed direction several times.

Kelly, who is unfamiliar with DeLand, struggled to report their location, picking up street names from signs as she drove past.

She broke off her limited pursuit when Volusia County deputies picked up theirs.

Volusia Sheriff's Office spokesman Brandon Haught said Kelly did an outstanding job of describing the vehicle and the man.

When Kelly first spotted Ragins at 11:19 a.m., Ragins was coming out of the gas station with "an armful" of soft drinks, apparently for the children, Kelly reported.

She didn't get a good look at the children inside the SUV, because of the Chevy's tinted windows.

The SUV ended up eastbound on State Road 472, but suddenly made a U-turn and headed back toward South Woodland Boulevard. The Sheriff's Office Air One helicopter was tracking Ragins by then.

Capt. Shane Summers of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, one of the arresting officers, said Ragins was on the phone with a Lake County investigator when he was stopped on U.S. Highway 17-92.

He said Ragins was slightly resistant at first, but then cooperated.

A witness to the traffic stop and arrest told Ragins exited his vehicle quickly, with his hands up, and lay down on the ground when deputies ordered him to do so.

When he was stopped, Ragins had been on the phone with Lake County Cpl. Mark Knuuttila, a member of the major-crimes unit, who was talking to Ragins by cell phone.

Knuuttila said Ragins had agreed to return to Lake County. That's when he made the U-turn on S.R. 472 near T.G. Lee and headed back west when Volusia County deputies stopped him.

Knuuttila said the day's saga began the morning of June 18.

He said Nancy Emanuel, who, with her two children, shares a home in Paisley with Ragins and his two children, made a 911 call to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Emanuel reported she and Ragins were involved in a domestic dispute, and said Ragins had choked her, Knuuttila said. Emanuel took her two children and fled.

The two continued to argue over their cell phones a short time later. The Lake County Sheriff's Office said Emanuel told them Ragins had told her the children were dead.

Then, Emanuel reported Ragins had threatened to ram the vehicle into a telephone pole and kill everyone inside.

That got attention.

The Lake County Sheriff's Office issued an Amber Alert, and began searching for Ragins and his two children, a teenage boy and a 12-year-old girl.

Lake County deputies said there were bruising and scratch marks on Emanuel's neck.

Knuuttila had been able to talk to the son and daughter by cell phone as Ragins drove around DeLand.

No weapons were found on Ragins or in the vehicle, though there were weapons in the Paisley home.
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Ragins was to be charged with domestic felony battery, Knuuttila said, and if he turned out to have a record of previous convictions, he might also be charged in connection with the firearms inside the home.

Both Emanuel and Ragins' mother offered to take custody of the children, as did the children's mother, Lori Day of Paisley.

A woman who identified herself only as "Susan," a cousin of Ragins, appeared at the Sheriff's Office substation asking for custody, as well.

The children ate pizza in a back room of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office substation while they awaited that determination.
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As he was escorted out of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office substation in South DeLand this afternoon, James Ragins told members of the news media, "I would never hurt my kids."

He said the Amber Alert issued for his children, which led to his apprehension in South DeLand today, was "a misunderstanding."

The Lake County Sheriff's Office said it issued the Amber Alert after Ragins' girlfriend called them, saying she thought Ragins, of Lake Mack, was armed and dangerous and that his 12- and 14-year-old children were with him and might be in danger.
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Old 06-24-2008, 02:21 PM
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what a cool video.. , that guy is a little kooky it seems though lol

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UPDATED 1:15 P.M.: A Marion County code-enforcement officer who happened to be traveling through DeLand played a key role in the apprehension of a man believed to be endangering two children.

Shortly after hearing an Amber Alert on the radio, a woman spotted the vehicle and called authorities.

She then cautiously followed the vehicle while deputies raced to the area.

Based on her call, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office stopped the white SUV on South Woodland Boulevard.

They apprehended James Ragins, who was talking on his cell phone with the Lake County Sheriff's Office when he was stopped, Haught said.

The children were in the vehicle, scared but safe, he added.

No weapon was found in Ragins' vehicle, he said.

Lake County had advised Ragins was believed to be armed and dangerous, and was traveling from Lake County with a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old in an older white Chevrolet Blazer.

Ragins and the girlfriend had argued this morning, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said, and she fled, calling the Sheriff's Office to report she feared Ragins had the children and that they were in danger.
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