DYLAN KURIHARA - 3 yo -(2010) Pasadena CA

Dozens of officers and volunteers were frantically combing Pasadena neighborhoods Sunday evening for a missing 3-year-old after discovering that a man arrested for public intoxication was the boy's father and that the boy was nowhere to be found.
The missing child is Dylan Kurihara, who is described as 32 inches tall, 35 pounds, with shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue-and-brown checkered long-sleeved shirt and dark blue pants.

One or more witnesses last saw the child with his father, 23-year-old Joe Kurihara, at 9:30 p.m. Saturday as they left a parking structure at Cordova Avenue and Euclid Street in a 2001 Lexus RX 300. The four-door silver SUV, with a license plate of 4UHY191, also has not been found.

"We're canvassing the area," said Janet Pope Givens, a spokeswoman for the Pasadena Police Department. "The knock and talk is still going on."

The search did not begin until Sunday morning, well after Pasadena police took the father into custody. When officers arrested Kurihara about 10:35 p.m. Saturday, the man was on foot and alone near 300 E. Green St, Givens said. Officers did not know that his son was supposed to be with him.

The man said nothing about his son, Givens said. The West Covina resident later claimed he had no memory of his son's being with him.

Kurihara and the boy had attended a wedding at a Masonic lodge in Pasadena. The boy's mother also was at the wedding and said she saw the father leave with the boy. When she hadn't heard from either of them for hours, she began to call police stations and hospitals. The woman, whose name has not been released, reached the Pasadena police at about 8 a.m. Her call immediately launched a search for the child and the car.

Kurihara is being held at the Pasadena city jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.

A 3-year-old California boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and sound, authorities said Sunday night. The boy, Dylan Kurihara, had been missing since Saturday after he attended a wedding with his father, A man who had heard about the missing boy found Dylan in a car in a parking deck about 10:40 p.m. Sunday, said Chief Phillip Sanchez of the Pasadena Police Department. "The great news here is that he was in his car seat. He was asleep at the time we found him. He's in good shape," Sanchez told reporters. Dylan and his father had gone to a wedding Saturday night. When he did not return home, his mother reported him missing to police Sunday morning. Police began their investigation and discovered the father had been arrested about 10:30 p.m. Saturday for public intoxication. "The father, identified as Joe Kurihara, does not recall being with the child due to his level of intoxication," police said at the time. "He was on foot at the time of his arrest and officers did not know that he was in charge of the child." Police then sought public assistance in finding the boy.
Authorities have not determined whether they will file additional charges against Dylan's father.

Police: Intoxicated Father Forgot Child
A man who was helping police during the 25-hour search found the boy in a parking structure
Updated 9:59 AM EDT, Mon, Oct 18, 2010


The search for a missing boy ended late Sunday when the child was found in a car seat in a Pasadena parking structure.

Authorities said the boy's father was so intoxicated that he couldn't remember where he parked the vehicle. The father was arrested.

Pasadena police chief Phillip Sanchez told reporters at a news conference that a man helping police in the search found the boy asleep at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. That was after a 25-hour search.

The boy was last seen leaving a wedding in the Lexus SUV with his father at the wheel. On Saturday night, the 23-year-old father was found walking alone. He said he was too drunk to remember that he had left the wedding with his child, police said.

The boy's mother reported the pair missing Sunday morning and set off the search. The mother, who also was at the wedding at the Masonic lodge, said she saw the two leave.

Sanchez told the Associated Press that the boy appears to be fine, but paramedics are examining him.

The father remains jailed on suspicion of child endangerment.

Police said Pasadena resident Rowdy Metzger, 39, discovered the boy, according to the LA Times. The newspaper reported that Metzger joined the search because he has children about the same age and wanted to help.

Missing boy found in car, father busted

From wire service reports
Posted: 10/18/2010 06:56:21 AM PDT
Updated: 10/18/2010 06:56:22 AM PDT



A citizen in a parking garage noticed the silver, 2001 Lexus police had been looking for, and looked inside, to find 3-year-old Dylan Kurihara sleeping in his car seat, a lieutenant said. The boy's father, 23-year-old Joe Kurihara, has been booked for felony child endangerment, said Lt. Diego Torres. The garage at Green Street and Madison Avenue was within one-half mile from where the boy was last seen with his father, 23-year-old Joe Kurihara, 25 hours earlier, at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, said Torres. They had left a wedding at a Masonic Temple also attended by the boy's mother. Kurihara was alone when he was arrested later in Pasadena for public intoxication and resisting arrest, police said. At 8 a.m. Sunday, Pasadena police received a call from Dylan's frantic mother, who had been calling hospitals and police stations looking for her son and her wayward domestic partner, Kurihara, said police spokeswoman Janet Pope Givens. "We informed her that we had Kurihara in custody since Saturday evening, but her son was not with him when he was taken into custody," Pope- Givens told CNS. Investigators then interviewed Kurihara who told them he couldn't remember having the child with him, said Pope-Givens. A search was started for the missing boy and Kurihara's missing Lexus, which has also been recovered.http://www.dailybreeze.com/latestnews/ci_16367866

For the time being cops will know just where to find the California toddler "lost" by a father so drunk he didn't even know he had the kid—and it won't be with his parents. Dylan Kurihara, 3, has been placed in protective custody with Los Angeles County child welfare officials after the boy was found still strapped in his child seat in a parking garage some 25 hours after he was last seen. Father Joe Kurihara, 23, has been charged with child endangerment.
Police intend to question Kurihara's sometimes-girlfriend and Dylan's mom, who alerted cops that her son was missing after Kurihara was busted for public intoxication. "Part of the investigation is to determine whether Dylan should go back home," said a police spokesman. Dylan, suffering from dehydration, was treated at a local hospital and released.

Father Pleads No Contest to Leaving 3-Year-Old Son Alone In Car

A West Covina man who got drunk and left his 3-year-old son alone in his car in a Pasadena parking garage for nearly 24 hours last fall pleaded no contest to public intoxication, child abuse and other charges, a prosecutor said today.

Pasadena Superior Court Judge Suzette Clover sentenced 23-year-old Joe Louie Kurihara to one year each in county jail and a residential drug treatment program and five years probation, according to Deputy District Attorney Carolina Lugo.

Kurihara was also ordered to undergo 52 weeks of parenting classes, the prosecutor said.

Along with one felony count of child abuse, Kurihara pleaded no contest Tuesday to one misdemeanor count each of resisting, obstructing or delaying a peace officer, battery upon an officer and public intoxication.

Kurihara's son, Dylan, was found asleep the evening of Oct. 17 after a local man heard that a toddler was missing in the area and went looking for him.

Rowdy Metzger, a father himself, soon found the boy strapped in a car seat in a soiled diaper in a parking garage at Green Street and Madison Avenue.

Police started looking for the boy earlier that day when they got a call from his mother, who had been calling hospitals and police stations to look for her son.

Kurihara apparently left a wedding at the Masonic Temple on Oct. 16 about 9:30 p.m. with the boy and put him in the vehicle. The man was arrested about an hour later at the Pasadena Civic Center.

Police questioned Kurihara about the boy, but he told them he couldn't remember having his son with him.

A restitution hearing is set April 5 involving the prosecution's request for about $16,000 in costs associated with the search for the child.

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maybe i missed something, but if the sperm donor is too drunk to remember where he parked the car-how did the little boy get in the car?