Maci Lilley was the accountable of a 38-hour manhunt and a statewide Amber Alert until backward Sunday morning if Roosevelt County Undersheriff Corey Reum begin the babe alfresco of town.Sheriff Jason Frederick fabricated the advertisement just afore apex Sunday on the department’s Facebook page. Maci Lilley was begin about 11:20 a.m. and appeared to be in acceptable bloom and was ability a medical evaluation, he said.
Maci’s ancestors has been notified and she will be rejoined with them soon.
The sheriff’s administration said the kidnapping analysis is still animate and it will absolution added advice already it’s available. The FBI has taken over the analysis of the case with abetment from bounded badge agencies.
A few hours afterwards she was taken to the hospital, Maci Lilley was aureate by air ambulance to a Billings hospital for added treatment, ancestors associates said.
“When she was begin she appeared to be physically OK but it’s accustomed for them to yield precautions for a victim of this attributes and be apparent by a medical facility,” said Lee Ulmer, a appointed agent for the sheriff’s department.
Minutes afterwards Lilley was found, law admiral and advance searchers aggregate at the hospital. Several association associates and some of Lilley’s accompany delivered teddy bears and ability to her hospital room.
“Thank God she’s alive,” said advance searcher Kim Keiser of Glasgow, who brought her retired K-9 dog Forrest Gonzalez to Wolf Point on Sunday to aid in the search. “I bare to do something. Forrest is old (10 years) but I ample he could do something, too.”
She was a part of dozens of volunteers who searched on foot, with ATVs and four-wheel-drive cars for the accomplished two days.
Family associates said Maci Lilley was begin east of Wolf Point and was alive and talking if she was discovered.
The suspect, John “Billy” Lieba, 20, is accepted to arise in Fort Peck Tribal Cloister Monday on a allegation of abomination kidnapping. Back the case occurred on an Indian reservation, the U.S Attorney’s Office in Great Falls has the advantage of charging the doubtable in federal court.
Late Saturday and aboriginal Sunday, advance searchers met at the home of Lilley’s grandmother, Valerie Comes Last, to plan out a community-wide seek and abstraction maps of the area. Law administration set up a command centermost at the Wolf Point Association Hall.
Outside the home, law administration admiral from about a half-dozen agencies looked for aisle in the west ancillary adjacency and searched the breadth adjacent the railroad advance and King’s Cemetery, an old Indian cemetery about a bisected mile from Comes Lasts’ house.
An aeroplane was aswell ambit aerial searching for the victim and some admiral were aswell traveling house-to-house allurement questions.
Search organizer Lance Fourstar said the FBI and sheriff’s administration alleged off their seek for the night about 7 p.m. Saturday but volunteers capital to abide into the night. They searched the Wolf Point breadth from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., he said, searching in debris bins, alone barrio and alleyways.
“We mainly did it to accord the ancestors some abundance and accord of mind,” Fourstar said. The FBI afterwards told Fourstar and the ancestors to arrest advance searches as to not impede those fabricated by law officers.
Comes Last, who has aloft Lilley back she was a babyish forth with three of the girl’s added siblings, lives aslant from the amphitheater area Maci was taken. The amphitheater is amidst by residences on all four abandon and is active a lot of of the day and night. She said she never feared for the assurance of her grandchildren at the park.
Comes Last confused into the adjacency in November afterwards her home on the south ancillary of boondocks austere to the arena from an adventitious fire.
Friday night, she told her grandkids to be in about aphotic but about 9 p.m. she noticed the abode was too quiet. She ailing at the amphitheater from her balustrade and noticed two adolescent boys arena basketball, but Maci was not in sight.
A adjacency boy said that John Lieba had affective Maci and put his duke over her aperture afore boring her from the amphitheater and branch down an alley. Comes Last alleged the badge and a seek anon began. The Amber Alert was issued aboriginal Saturday morning.
Comes Last said they didn’t apperceive Lieba alone but had heard rumors about him causing agitation in the adjacency in the weeks arch up to the incident.
Lieba was arrested afterwards he was begin active about a altered Wolf Point adjacency Saturday morning. He was taken into aegis and is getting captivated at the Roosevelt County Detention Facility.
Fourstar and Comes Last said the acknowledgment from the association has been overwhelming. “Everyone came and helped. It started just afterwards we appear it to the police,” she said.
Throughout the ordeal, bounded association delivered aliment and baptize to Comes Last’s home.
“A lot of humans capital to advice but they didn’t apperceive how. That’s why we put a lot of accomplishment into a search,” Fourstar added. The ancestors is planning a association acquisition at a afterwards date to appearance their acknowledgment to law administration and the association for allowance in the seek for the missing girl.
A GoFundMe annual has aswell been set up to advice Lilley’s ancestors with costs while they are in Billings for the girl’s hospital stay.
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