HALEIGH CUMMINGS - 5 yo - Satsuma FL - The Beginning

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mom_from_STL wrote:Haleigh's Dad Fired For Abandoning Job


Ronald Cummings Has Not Worked Since Daughter Disappeared Feb. 10

POSTED: Thursday, April 16, 2009
UPDATED: 3:08 pm EDT April 16, 2009

PALATKA, Fla. -- Ronald Cummings was fired this week after his employer said he has not come to work since his 5-year-old daughter Haleigh disappeared from their Satsuma home more than two months ago.
Haleigh disappeared in the early-morning hours of Feb. 10, just before Cummings came home from his job at PDM Bridge in Palatka.
PDM Bridge said they held Cummings' job open for weeks, expecting him to request a leave of absence or make some other arrangement, but he never did, WJXT-TV reported.
Cummings' lawyer, Greg Kimball, released a statement saying Cummings agreed to return to work on April 6.
"Ronald agreed to this date and was prepared to go into work when he was told on Friday, April 3, 2009, that the offer to return to work was being withdrawn for 'abandoning his job,'" Kimball said. "Cummings in the last two months has had to deal not only with the disappearance of his daughter Haleigh, but also false muckraking allegations by attorney Kim Picazio, representing Crystal Sheffield."
Kimball said they are consulting with a Daytona Beach firm that specializes in labor and employment law over possible legal action over his termination.
Kimball also denied that Cummings ever threatened anyone connected with PDM Bridge.



Custody of Haleigh and her younger brother was awarded to Ronald Cummings because he had a steady job and could provide health insurance for the children -- something a Putnam County family court judge found Sheffield, their mother, could not.

Search For Haleigh Continues


Haleigh was last seen when Cummings' girlfriend, Misty Croslin, put her to bed Feb. 9. Despite hundreds of leads, Putnam County investigators have found no trace of the girl.
On the first day Haleigh was missing, more than 130 law enforcement personnel from several local and state agencies began searching for her.
Investigators proclaimed everyone -- family members, neighbors and associates -- as a suspect in the girl's disappearance.
For weeks after Haleigh disappeared, Cummings and his family lived in a tent not far from the mobile home where the 5-year-old disappeared.
"I will give up everything I own. All I want is my child, please," Cummings said in the hours after an Amber Alert was issued for Haleigh.
Night after night, family members held vigils and prayed for Haleigh's safe return.
The ground search using hundreds of law enforcement personnel, specially trained dogs and volunteers on horseback continued for two weeks. Investigators went door to door and stopped cars along main road.
More than 1,400 calls of tips and reported sightings poured in to a hot line, leading investigators as far away as Kentucky and Indiana.
The focus began to turn toward Haleigh's parents when a heated interview on national television put Cummings on the defensive.
After a month, police tape was removed from around Haleigh's home, which investigators said was no longer considered a crime scene. The home, however, remained vacant as Haleigh's father refused to move back home without his daughter.
Five weeks after Haleigh disappeared, Cummings and Croslin were engaged, then married.
The newlyweds were interviewed on the "Today" show, where Croslin was unable to explain her inconsistent accounts to police.
Signs asking about Haleigh's whereabouts remain throughout Putnam County, eight weeks after the girl disappeared.
Two months into the search, friends and neighbors said Haleigh is still on their minds.
"This is a small community. Everybody's hearts are going out to the family. And, we all still have hope. You have to have hope," said one resident.
Anyone who has any information that could help find Haleigh is asked to call Crimestoppers at 888-277-TIPS.
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Kimball said they are consulting with a Daytona Beach firm that specializes in labor and employment law over possible legal action over his termination.
Kimball also denied that Cummings ever threatened anyone connected with PDM Bridge.

I don't believe he has a leg to stand on since Florida is a right to work State

And why didn't he go to work he sure as heck isn't looking for Haleigh.....doesn't he have bills to pay......you can't just sit around for weeks and not go to work and not check in with work, or apply for disability and FMLA to hold your job. He did none of these things, to me he is a big loser who is sitting around doing god knows what with this 17 year old. Sickening.....he doesn't have a let to stand on your are right

This doesn't look good for Ron.

http://www.thesky973.com/pages/4014463.php

REPORTERS NOTES 4/20/09 by TJ Hart

12:05 a.m.

I am chasing
down information received at 11:48 pm by phone Sunday referencing a
possible BOLO alert for Ron Cummings Sr. who is the father of missing
5-year-old Satsuma girl, Haleigh Cummings.

I was tipped by an informant, who shall be refered to as "Digs,"
in Putnam County, FL that a 911 call was made between 9 p.m. and 10
p.m. stating that the father, Ronald Cummings Sr. sent his 4 year-old
son, Ron Jr., to the door of his former girlfriend, Amber, in an
attempt to lure the child he and Amber produced to come outside.

The information received from my informant also stated that a tall, thin male was also present near Ron Jr.

Our sources says that this was an attempt by Ron to take this child.

It’s been reported that Ronald Cummings Sr. is now behind in his support for that child.

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) artharris.com, all rights reserved
In an exclusive interview with The Bald Truth, we watch a party pal
of Misty Cummings, Kristina Prevatt, aka Nay Nay, describe Misty’s
spree of drugs, sex and rock and roll with “White Boy Greg” Page, after
running from what she says Misty described as abuse by Ronald Cummings,
and her duties babysitting his children, Haleigh and Junior.
“When I picked her up” mid-week before Haleigh vanished, Prevatt
tells pro bono private investigator and bounty hunter Williams Staubs,
aka Cobra on The Bald Truth at artharris.com, “she said (Cummings)
threw her against the mirror and she said her arm was all cut up and
stuff because she said she was pregnant, and he said, it wasn’t his
baby, and he rolled her up and tried to squeeze her into a ball.”
Why was Ronald Cummings angry? “She had a pregnancy test, said it
was posiive,” said Prevatt in her first television interview. “(It)
might have been her sister’s because her sister was pregnant.”
Soon, Prevatt says Misty described how Ronald dropped her off at
her brother’s house, and she began walking, then called for Nay Nay to
pick her up–and the three day party began.
To hear Prevatt tell it, she drove Misty and Page to nearby St. Augustine in her beige Lincoln to party.
In an earlier interview, Prevatt told me that Misty ran into Amber
Brooks at one party, and the two women had to be pulled apart. Page
said Misty was smoking pot, doing cocaine and taking “Roxies.”
According to this new interview with Prevatt on The Bald Truth, she
gave a ride to a prostitute she knew named Lindsay, and it was on to
Crescent City, and a house full of Hispanic laborers “who were acting
real crazy.” Prevatt says she wanted to stay in the car with Misty, but
Greg insisted they all wait inside while Lindsay went to work.
Prevatt tells Cobra, who Monday night bonded both Prevatt and Amber
Brooks out of the Putnam County Jail where they were being held on
felony cocaine possession charges, that Lindsay agreed to pay her half
her sex for hire proceeds for driving, and disappeared into a back room
where “all the Mexicans took turns,” paying from $30 to $120 each.
Prevatt says she and Misty were invited to participate. “They said,
we were in their house,” but they declined. “We sat real close to
Greg,” she says, and split “when Lindsay got her money.”
As for drugs, she said, “Misty does pills and weed, and xanex, Loritab, but smoking weed, that’s like her main thing.”
Ronald Cummings, through his attorneys, denies any illegal drug use,
though he’s been arrested numerous times for drug possession and once
plead no contest to the charges.
After the two day party, Prevatt says that Saturday night before
Haleigh vanished turned to Sunday morning and Misty asked to be dropped
at her brother’s house. Prevatt says Misty was trying to conceal she
was talking “like secretly” to Ronald on the phone.
“I guess he asked her to bring a condom,” says Prevatt, “and I didn’t have any condoms.”
Nay Nay says she dropped Misty at her brother’s house. “She was
like, ‘Gotta go to my brother’s house, gotta watch the kids in the
morning….So I said, ‘You’re going to Ronald’s house, and she said, ‘No,
I’m not, no I’m not…Come back in the morning, and help me watch the
kids,’ but I didn’t end up doing that.”
For her part, Prevatt says she was so exhausted after dropping off
Croslin, she crashed at Lindsay’s house in Flagler Estates nearby, and
woke up at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9. When she called Misty later that
week, Haleigh was missing, and Prevatt says Misty told her “the same
thing I’d heard on the news, something about the kitchen light.’ Then I
heard her sister in the background saying, ‘Don’t talk on the phones,
the phones are tapped.’ Then she hung up.” That was the last time they
spoke, she says.
Police say both Brooks and Prevatt have spoken to task force
detectives and fully cooperated in recounting what they know about
details behind Haleigh’s disappearance. Misty Cummings has also spoken
several times to detectives who say they are struggling to reconcile
conflicts in her stories.
But sources on the team tell me they aim to use Monday’s arrest of
Prevatt and Amber Brooks, mother of a third child, a 20 month old
disable son named Jordan, by Ronald Cummings, to try to help the women
remember more information.
Several weeks after Haleigh turned up missing, Prevatt was back
partying, and hooked up with Brooks again, even let her borrow her
beige Lincoln.
In her exclusive interview here on The Bald Truth, Prevatt says
Amber Brooks got her car stuck in the mud and she found a big dent in
the trunk. “At first she acted like, ‘I don’t’ know what happened.’
Then I said, what the f—did you do to my trunk?’ And she was like, ‘Oh,
it must have happened when I paid someone to push the car (out of the
mud) when I wasn’t there.”
When William Staubs asked what Amber had related to her about Ronald
and parental discipline, Prevatt said, “Amber says he usually smacks
the s—out of Haleigh and Junior, and one time he smacked Junior, and he
got like a bloody nose.”
Ronald has denied any abuse, and investigators with the Putnam
County Department of Family services once absolved Cummings several
years ago of abuse charges after Haleigh’s mother, Crystal Sheffield,
initially lost custody and tried to challenge a court order to regain
it.
A Miami family law attorney, Kim Picazio, has launched her own
investigation of the charges, and says Amber Brooks and others have
described slaps that have lead to bloody noses. Says Picazio in an
interview with The Bald Truth Monday, “Amber told me Ronald always
explained Junior had a ‘weak nose,’ and that’s why he bled so much.”
At the time, county child advocates ruled that his parental
discipline was within acceptable department guidelines. “They have a
bunch of nice clothes,” observes Prevatt, who spent time with Brooks
when she was going with Cummings.
As the cupid behind the wheel who put Misty in the arms of White Boy
Greg Page the weekend before Haleigh vanished, she says she was
recently startled when the Cummings and Croslin klan flagged her down.
They’d been reading all about Misty’s assignation with Greg Page,
and Cobra says Cummings acknowledged to him he knew it, but in the
scheme of things, it didn’t matter, that he loved Misty, and was trying
to keep her close to find out what happened to Haleigh.
But that didn’t mean his pride wasn’t wounded, that his bride to be
had slept with another man, much less a light-skinned African American
nicknamed White Boy.
Recalls Prevatt, “Misty’s Mom and sister saw me and said, ‘Where
does White Boy Greg live?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know,’ and they
said, ‘Ronald … and their Dad are looking for him and want to kill him.
Ronald’s going to shove eleven inches down his throat.’”
A task force investigator tells me police have heard the same
alleged threats, but shrugged it off as red clay hubris, a once cocky
rooster trying to regain his strut.
For his part, police say they’ve ruled out Page and say he’s fully
cooperated in the Haleigh probe. In our exclusive interview, Page told
me he doesn’t know what happened after he left a message for Misty a
day before she reported Haleigh gone. He says she never called back.
Sources inside the investigation tell me Page was forthcoming about
his wild weekend with Misty, who also confirmed some details of their
sexcapade. As for the threats, Page has heard about them, and says he’s
laying low.

P.S. I just messaged Crystal S on her MySpace page, requesting her to become my friend.

I'll let you know if I hear anything....

Haleigh Cummings April 20
By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, www.artharris.com
In a dramatic new twist in the case of missing Haleigh Cummings, two young women with close ties to the father of the missing five year old, Ronald, and his new bride, Misty Cummings, were arrested and booked Monday morning into the Putnam County Jail on charges of cocaine possession.
Amber Nicole Brooks, 20, of Palatka, Florida, the mother of Cummings’ 20-month old son, Jordan, was arrested by Putnam County sheriffs deputies, booked into jail at 8:04 a.m. and charged with cocaine possession, smuggling “contraband” into a detention facility and failing to appear for another outstanding warrant.
Bond was set at $2,512.00 for the three felony charges, according to the Putnam County Jail log.
Also arrested and booked (at 8:39 a.m.): Kristina Renee Prevatt, 18, aka “Nay Nay,” the party pal of Misty Cummings who in an exclusive upcoming interview at artharris.com describes a wild, three day party of sex, drugs and drinking with Misty the weekend before the 17 year old babysitter reported Haleigh missing on Feb. 10. Misty, who has since married Ronald, is said to be the last person who saw Haleigh
On Monday, Prevatt was charged with possession of cocaine and trying to smuggle contraband into a detention facility, records show. Her bond was set at $2008.00.
In our interview, she tells me she introduced Misty and Greg Page, aka White Boy Greg, and drove them around for two days. She also says Misty claimed Ronald had physically abused her when she told him she was pregnant, and that lead to her party girl revenge. Nay Nay says she doubts Misty was telling the truth.
She also says Amber Brooks borrowed her car recently, and got it stuck in the mud, reportedly running from a man with a machete. She says Misty still had clothes in her trunk from that lost weekend, but they have since been removed.
Prevatt describes this and more in our exclusive television interview between her and pro bono private investigator and bounty hunter William Staubs, aka “Cobra,” who is expected back in Satsuma late Monday.
As for Amber Brooks, in a recent exclusive interview with The Bald Truth, she tells me she once lived with Ronald and took care of Haleigh and her little brother, Junior, before their son, Jordan, was born, then split with Cummings who she said has paid no child support, and raised their son as a single mother.
With a previous drug arrest on the books, Brooks has been struggling to raise their son, who has been quietly cared for by her grandmother in Palatka, but Jordan’s future may be up in the air after a surprise visit by Ronald Cummings Sunday.
Indeed, just before 10 p.m. Sunday night, April 19, according to a 911 call my source heard on a police scanner, Brooks’ grandmother called the Putnam County Sheriff’s dispatcher to report Cummings had pulled up outside her house in his purple Nissan Ultima and sent Haleigh’s little brother, Junior, to her door to ask for his little brother, Jordan.
When the grandmother refused, she told police, a black man who was apparently with Cummings appeared and asked for the child. That’s when my source says he heard the grandmother tell 911 she locked the door and called police, who confirmed the incident, including a BOLO (be on the lookout) for Cummings and a police cruiser that was dispatched.
“That’s how I understand it went down,” said PCSD Captain Dick Schauland in a phone interview with The Bald Truth.
Lt. Johnny Greenwood, also a PCSD spokesman, confirmed the arrests of Prevatt and Brooks. He said both had been cooperative in previous interviews with task force detectives when questioned about Haleigh’s kidnapping, but saw no connection with that case and the arrests.
“I don’t know how investigators may want to talk to them. I know they’ve talked to them already…and they’ve been cooperative the whole time,” Lt. Greenwood tells me. “Usually, charges like that might be used as leverage, but in this case they’ve already been cooperative.”
Cooperative or not, one investigator on the case told me Monday the task force would explore whether the cocaine arrests might be still be used to “squeeze” the women for any undisclosed information that might help move the stalled case forward.
“We’re waiting on that one tip to come in. Somebody knows something,” Lt. Greenwood tells me. “Somebody out there knows what happened. It’s just gonna take them slipping up and telling somebody, or somebody hears something. That’s all it’s going to take, one tip.”
In our exclusive interview with Prevatt, Nay Nay, as everyone calls her, says she picked Misty up after a fight with Ronald mid-week before Haleigh vanished, drove her to meet Page, and off they went on their party girl weekend—and had a surprise encounter with Brooks. Her account dovetails with what Page, or “White Boy Greg” as he’s called on the street, told us in his exclusive sit down.
Both describe Page’s brief romantic hook up with Misty, and her physical altercation with Amber Brooks at a party where witnesses tell me the cat-fighting women had to be physically pulled apart.
While Amber tells me Ronald Cummings rarely saw their son, friends say Brooks remains bitter that Misty moved in with her ex, and may have been angling to take away her son. Investigators theorize a number of dynamics at play, including a Misty who may have been jealous of the women who had previously had children by her main man.
Kim Picazio, lawyer for Crystal Sheffield, tells me Brooks described to her how Cummings would “smack” his son, Junior, causing nose bleeds —a similar account Brooks told me as well — but a police source says Amber also praised Ronald as a fine father who did not abuse the kids in a recent interview with the task force.
“She tells people what she thinks they want to hear,” said a lead investigator in the stalled missing child case.
In an exclusive interview, the task force official who asked that his name not be used, tells me investigators on the Haleigh case would be exploring any conflicts between the bit players in this twisted epic of Jerry Springer proporations, in an attempt to learn more from the two women about Haleigh’s disappearance than previously shared under police questioning.
Sources tell me sheriff’s investigators interviewed Brooks last week after she also met with investigators for Putnam County Department of Family Services who questioned her about Ronald Cummings alleged abuse–charges leveled by Haleigh’s mother, Crystal Sheffield, who is trying to regain custody of their son, Junior.
Through his attorneys, Ronald Cummings has denied any physical abuse towards the children, and maintains he’s the better parent by a longshot.
DFS has previously investigated Cummings and reportedly found his use of physical punishment within the acceptable bounds of parental discipline.
http://www.cayleedaily.com/2009/04/haleigh-cummings-case-party-girls-busted-today/

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