"robert romero"<P> 1 . "Robert Marcos Romero Image ~ Fact Sheet "<BR> Posted by LadyBug on Nov-11-00 at 10:52 PM (EST)<BR> Endangered Missing<BR> ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT :<BR> Santa Fe Police Department (New Mexico)<BR> 1-505-955-5000 <P><P> ROBERT MARCOS ROMERO <BR> Missing June 7, 2000<P> Birthdate :April-10-1993 Age : 7 years<BR> Height : 3' 9" Weight : 50 lbs<BR> Eyes : Brown Hair : Brown<P> Circumstances : Robert was last seen on his way to a friend's home in the Bellemah area of Santa<BR> Fe, New Mexico. He was wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt and black and white tennis shoes. Robert<BR> has freckles.<P> City of Report :SANTA FE, New Mexico, USA <BR> NCMEC Case Number : 887928 <P> ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT<BR> National Center for Missing & Exploited Children<BR> 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) <BR> -------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR> Santa Fe Police Department (New Mexico) <BR> 1-505-955-5000<P> **************<BR> NOTE: We need media links. New Mexico, are you viewing these posts? Please post or contact.<BR> Robert Romero needs your help, please. <P> <BR> <BR> <P> <BR> 2 . "Officer in Romero Case Loses Rank "<BR> Posted by Ishtar93 on Nov-28-00 at 01:12 PM (EST)<BR> Tuesday, November 28, 2000 <P> Officer in Romero Case Loses Rank <P> By Daniel J. Chacón<BR> Journal Staff Writer<BR> A Santa Fe Police Department lieutenant has been demoted following an internal affairs investigation<BR> into the June disappearance of missing 7-year-old Robbie Romero.<BR> "I was disciplined for the Romero case, and the discipline brought against me was a demotion — a<BR> knock-down in rank," Jerry Archuleta, now a sergeant, said Monday.<BR> "I can't go into specifics because an appeal has been filed," he said. "What I'm being demoted for,<BR> there are bigger issues.<BR> "I just feel that I'm being sought after," he said, refusing to elaborate.<BR> Deputy Police Chief Beverly Lennen would not comment on Archuleta's reduction in rank, calling it a<BR> personnel matter.<BR> Lennen, who would only confirm Archuleta's current rank, referred questions to city attorneys Peter<BR> Dwyer and Mark Allen, neither of whom returned calls for comment Monday.<BR> While the reason behind Archuleta's demotion is being kept confidential, it's no secret Archuleta was<BR> the night-shift supervisor who failed to call for an expanded police search after Romero was reported<BR> missing from his Bellamah Drive neighborhood June 7.<BR> Police have acknowledged the search for Romero began nine hours after he was reported missing.<BR> "What could be more important than a 7-year-old who is missing?" Evelyn Romero, the missing boy's<BR> mother, said Monday. "We were looking for him when that's the police department's job. I felt that if<BR> they would have responded, maybe we would have found him in time."<BR> The night Robbie vanished, Evelyn Romero stopped Officer Isaac Valerio around 11 p.m. in front of her<BR> home to report her son missing. The boy had last been seen around 7:30 p.m.<BR> "We expected them to look for him," Evelyn Romero said. "But we had (Valerio) helping us off and on<BR> — he had other calls. I just don't understand. A child. Seven years old. A baby. He was in the first<BR> grade. I don't know what (the police) were thinking."<BR> Neither Archuleta nor anyone in the graveyard-shift crew told the day-shift commander about the<BR> boy's disappearance. That commander discovered the missing-boy report only when he came on duty<BR> and looked through reports from individual incidents from the previous shift and then initiated the<BR> search.<BR> Archuleta, who was earning $26.22 an hour as a lieutenant, a rank he made last November, is now<BR> getting paid $23.65 an hour as a sergeant, according to Rumalda Duran, a city administrative<BR> secretary.<BR> Evelyn Romero and her husband, Rudy, filed a tort claim notice Sept. 1 against the city, alleging<BR> police have failed to adequately investigate their son's disappearance and delayed the search after<BR> their son was reported missing. Robbie's parents also claim police harassment.<BR> "(Archuleta) did nothing about it, and that's one of the reasons we filed the tort claim notice," Evelyn<BR> Romero said. "We don't want this to happen to anyone again. If somebody took (Robbie), they had<BR> the entire night. I just hate to think of the possibilities."<BR> Archuleta said the demotion has hurt him emotionally, but "losing a rank ... is not the end of the<BR> world.<BR> "In the scheme of things, the important things are my two children," he said. "To them, I'm not<BR> sergeant daddy or lieutenant daddy, I'm daddy."<BR> Evelyn Romero said she felt sorry Archuleta had been demoted. She also said it didn't make her feel<BR> any better.<BR> "It's not comforting at all — my son is gone," she said. "I want my son home. I want him found."<P> <a href="http://www.abqjournal.com/news/188634news11-28-00.htm";>http://www.abqjournal.com/news/188634news11-28-00.htm<;/a> <BR> <BR> <BR> <P> <BR> 3 . "Leads on Missing Boy Wane "<BR> Posted by Ishtar93 on Dec-05-00 at 08:06 PM (EST)<BR> Tuesday, December 5, 2000 <P> Leads on Missing Boy Wane <P> By Daniel J. Chacón<BR> Journal Staff Writer<P> Santa Fe police report that the number of leads in the Robbie Romero investigation is dwindling as the<BR> six-month anniversary of his disappearance approaches this week.<BR> While finding the missing 7-year-old boy is the department's top priority, police brass announced last<BR> week that some Violent Crimes Unit detectives would return to work on some of Santa Fe's old and<BR> unsolved crimes.<BR> "The bottom line is (the Romero case) remains the priority case for us. However, there are other<BR> major cases going on that require the detectives' time and effort," Deputy Police Chief Beverly<BR> Lennen said Monday.<BR> "The volume (of leads on the Romero case) is no longer there, so they are able to work on other<BR> cases," she said. "Certainly, up until a few weeks ago, we had more leads coming in."<BR> Despite months of investigative work and several searches, including two at the Caja del Rio landfill,<BR> the 50-pound boy with big, brown eyes who vanished from his Bellamah Drive neighborhood June 7 is<BR> still missing.<BR> The boy's mother, Evelyn Romero, said Monday that detectives should focus their efforts on her<BR> missing son before his case, too, is listed among the department's other unsolved crimes.<BR> "Three weeks ago," Evelyn Romero said, "two homicide detectives walked in questioning me in the<BR> middle of the afternoon at work" wanting to know what she knew about her son's disappearance.<BR> "I'm tired of the police saying these things to my family," she said. "I've already been polygraphed. I<BR> passed."<BR> Police have acknowledged that an expanded police search for Robbie didn't begin until nine hours<BR> after he was reported missing.<BR> "They can't find him because they did not look for him when they needed," Evelyn Romero said. "They<BR> don't know how to solve cases. They said they were going to (double-check) all the leads. There's<BR> definitely work to be done."<BR> When the investigation into the boy's disappearance first began, there were "tens of thousands of<BR> pieces of information that had to be followed up on," Lennen said.<BR> As time passed, and those leads the department received were investigated and then verified or<BR> eliminated, the workload slowly started to diminish, she said. She added that a case agent is still<BR> assigned to the Romero case.<BR> Although police will continue to investigate the boy's disappearance, the amount of work the<BR> investigation requires "depends on the information coming in at the time," she said.<BR> "Whenever we need to pull personnel from other cases to assist (in the Romero case), we do that,<BR> and we do that on a frequent basis."<BR> The department has spent close to a half-million dollars thus far looking for the boy and investigating<BR> tips about his disappearance.<BR> "The best way I can describe (how the detectives feel about this case) is a commitment to that<BR> 7-year-old boy and his family to bring resolution to this case," Lennen said.<BR> But with technological advances available to solve old cases, there is a commitment to other victims<BR> and their loved ones, too, she said.<BR> "What (the detectives) are saying is that they intend to make time" to investigate some of the city's<BR> unsolved cases, Lennen said. "It has already been ongoing for several weeks because this is a<BR> commitment the Violent Crimes Unit had wanted to make."<BR> Evelyn Romero said detectives should continue to tackle the missing-boy investigation head-on, while<BR> it's still fresh.<BR> "I can't go to bed (because I'm) thinking, what if there's no resolution?" she said. "It's been a<BR> constant nightmare. Instead of (the police) helping, they're hurting us more."<BR> Copyright 2000 Albuquerque Journal <P><P><BR> <BR> <BR> <P> <BR> 4 . "skull compared to Robbie's DNA"<BR> Posted by LovelyPigeon on Jan-26-01 at 12:58 PM (EST)<BR> Santa Fe police don't think skull is Robbie's<BR> By VERONICA GONZALEZ/The New Mexican1/26/2001<P> Santa Fe Police doubt a child's skull found in a rural part of a Northern California is that of missing<BR> Robbie Romero, but detectives are waiting for DNA test results to determine whether it matches the<BR> 7-year-old.<P> Preliminary results determined the skull was that of a child who was 5 to 6 years old and had been<BR> dead for at least six months, police said. Romero has been missing since June 7, almost eight months.<P> Santa Fe Deputy Police Chief Beverly Lennen said the skull matched two missing children. The second<BR> child is a 7-year-old girl who has been missing from Santa Clara County in California for about a year.<P> The matches were determined by a check of a database kept by the Center for Missing and Exploited<BR> Children, Lennen said. <P> "The chances are much better that this would be their missing child, but because of the low numbers<BR> and because we have had other contacts with California in this case, we are certainly interested in<BR> following up," Lennen said. <P> But, Lennen said, the skull could belong to neither child. Instead, it could belong to someone whose<BR> disappearance has not been reported. <P> California's Santa Clara County sheriff's office crime lab is extracting DNA to determine whether it<BR> matches a boy or a girl, said Sheriff's Lt. John Hirokawa.<P> "It's more likely it's California's missing child," said Deputy Police Chief Beverly Lennen. "It's less likely<BR> that it's Robert Romero, but we're very interested. Realistically, we have to be prepared that it will be<BR> their missing child."<P> The missing girl, Xiana Fairchild, vanished Dec. 9, 1999, as she walked home from school in Vallejo,<BR> Calif., 70 miles from where the skull was found, near San Francisco.<P> During the police investigation into Robbie's disappearance, police have looked into some leads in<BR> California, but "there is nothing firm in that area," Lennen said.<P> "It would not be the first time California has come up," she said. "Certainly, there is other information<BR> that would most closely tie (Robbie's disappearance) to our own area."<P> Romero's mother, Evelyn Romero, said she was "just hanging on" after hearing about the find. <P> "It's just hard 'cause it's like reliving it again," she said.<P> A road worker in Los Gatos, Calif., who first thought the skull was a rock discovered it Friday on a<BR> remote road in the hills overlooking the town and called the Santa Clara County sheriff's office.<P> Police in California used dogs trained to find human remains to search the area for the rest of the<BR> body, but they found nothing. <P> Police hope DNA results will determine the sex and race of the victim and should pin down the identity<BR> of the child, Hirokawa said. The results probably won't be finalized until next week, he said. <P> Hirokawa would not say what portion of the skull was found.<P> In the Fairchild case, the girl's mother, Antoinette Robinson, reported her daughter missing.<BR> Robinson's then-boyfriend, Robert Turnbough, told police he had left Fairchild at a bus stop but later<BR> changed his story to say she walked alone to catch the bus. <P> Vallejo police have never called Turnbough a suspect, although they said he has been under "a cloud<BR> of suspicion" because of his conflicting tales. <P> A federal grand jury questioned both Turnbough and Robinson a half-dozen times. Police also sifted<BR> through a landfill that accepts Vallejo's trash and organized searches, but turned up no sign of the<BR> girl. <P> In the Romero disappearance, police have not named any suspects in the disappearance of the boy,<BR> who vanished from around his home in the Bellamah Drive neighborhood.<P> Santa Fe police searched the city's landfill twice as well as the Romeros' back yard. Police also dived<BR> into Fenton Lake in Northern New Mexico looking for the boy.<P> Hoping to spark renewed interest in the case as well as new leads, police released a 30-second<BR> commercial with images of the boy but have not received any new information, Lennen has said.<P> The Associated Press contributed to this report.