MONICA AMBRIZ - 17 yo (2010)/ Charged: Artemio (Gerardo) Hernandez- Jonesboro GA

Police search for missing Clayton girl
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Police are searching for a 17-year-old Morrow girl who went on a lunch break and never returned.
Clayton County Police Police are searching for Monica Ambriz. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is urged to call Clayton County Police at 770-477-3781.

Monica Ambriz left her job at the El Progresso grocery store on Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro at 4:45 p.m. Saturday to get something to eat. Her sister got a text from Monica's phone, but the message didn't contain Monica's usual abbreviations and acronyms, police said.

About 7:45 p.m, Monica's mom saw an unidentified man driving Monica's car on Tara Boulevard near I-75.  The car was found abandoned minutes later, with Monica's cell phone inside.

Later that night, two witnesses reported seeing Monica at La Jungla Restaurant on Metropolitan Parkway in Atlanta. But she has not been seen since.

Monica also has been known to visit the El Noa Noa nightclub on Chamblee Tucker Road in DeKalb County.

Police said she might be using a fake Texas ID with the name, "Monica Sandoval."

Monica is described as 5-foot-5, 148 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing jeans, a red shirt, white belt and black shoes.

Police said they are not ruling out foul play in Monica's disappearance.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is urged to call Clayton County Police Det. Chris Helton at 770-477-3781.
http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/police-search-for-missing-687043.html

October 22, 2010 1:25 PM Monica Ambriz Missing: Police Fear Missing Ga. Teenager in Danger


Monica Ambriz (Clayton County Police Dept.)
MORROW, Ga. (CBS/WGCL) The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has issued a nationwide alert for Monica Ambriz, a missing Georgia teenager who police fear is in danger. The Clayton County Police Department believe the disappearance of the 17-year-old from Morrow, Ga. is suspicious. Monica disappeared on Saturday while taking her lunch break from her job at grocery store in Jonesboro, about 20 miles south of Atlanta. Police say her truck and cell phone were later found abandoned. Her sister, Maria Ambriz, told CBS affiliate WGCL that her family called the cell phone several times Saturday and, eventually, a man answered. "Before he hanged up, he said he wasn't going to bring her back," Maria Ambriz told the station. She also said her parents spotted Monica's yellow truck that same day and followed it. According to her, they found it by a mall with the stereo missing, but her sister's cell phone was still inside. Several people have reported spotting Monica in the metro Atlanta area, according to investigators. One of the places were she was reported was a nightclub in Southwest Atlanta. Maria Ambriz said her mother is not sure if Monica left on her own or was kidnapped. But regardless, the family wants her home. Anyone with information on Monica's whereabouts is urged to call the Clayton County Police Department at 770-477-3781.http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20020436-504083.html

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Missing / Located Persons => Located Adults and Children => Topic started by: Jenn on October 21, 2010, 09:20:50 AM


Title: Found Deceased: Monica Ambriz--GA--10/16/2010
Post by: Jenn on October 21, 2010, 09:20:50 AM

Per NCMEC, Monica has been found deceased. No other information is available at this time.

Police have confirmed a body found is that of a Morrow teenager who went on a lunch break from work and never returned.
Monica Ambriz, 17, left her job at the El Progresso grocery store on Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro at 4:45 p.m. Oct. 16.About three hours later, the teen's mother told Clayton County police she saw an unidentified man driving Monica's car on Tara Boulevard near I-75. The car was found abandoned minutes later, with Monica's cell phone inside.On Oct. 26, a female's body was found in an abandoned building on Arrowhead Boulevard, about a mile from El Progresso, police said. An autopsy confirmed the body was that of Ambriz.Police declined to say how Ambriz was killed. No one is in custody, Officer Otis Willis with Clayton police told the AJC."We have strong leads," Willis said Tuesday night.Friends and co-workers hung up black ribbons and Ambriz's pictures at the grocery store.."It's terrible news ... terrible news that something like that happened to a person," the teen's co-worker Andres Oliveros commented. "You know you see one person one day and she'll be gone the next day."Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact Clayton County police at 770-477-3747.

Arrest Made in Missing Teen's Murder


Updated: Thursday, 04 Nov 2010, 6:07 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 04 Nov 2010, 5:04 PM EDT
By MYFOXATLANTA STAFF/myfoxatlantaJONESBORO, Ga. - Authorities say they’ve made an arrest in the murder of a missing teen whose body was found in Jonesboro last month. Gerardo Hernandez, 31, faces charges in the murder of 17-year-old Monica Ambriz, as well as another murder and three armed robberies. On October 26, Ambriz’s body was found on Arrowhead Boulevard in Jonesboro. She had been reported missing on October 16 after she went on a break from her job at a grocery store, and never returned. GBI investigators say about three hours after she went missing, Ambriz’s mother saw an unidentified man driving her daughter’s car near Interstate 75. The car was later found abandoned with the teen’s cell phone inside. Her body was located about a mile from the grocery store. On Thursday, police said Hernandez had been arrested and charged with Ambriz’s murder, and they say he is also charged with the murder of 61-year-old Maria Gloria Galvan De Rivera, who lived in Forest Park. She was killed on October 12. Hernandez is also accused of three armed robberies in Forest Park and Henry County since October 12

The 31-year-old man accused of raping and killing a Morrow teenager is also accused of killing a 61-year-old woman and committing a string of armed robberies across the south metro area, police said Thursday afternoon.



Artemio Hernandez was arrested last week by DeKalb County police as he tried to rob a Payless Shoe Source, police said. Since then, he's been linked to crimes in Henry and Clayton counties. On Tuesday, he confessed to killing 17-year-old Monica Ambriz, who took a break from work Oct. 16 and never returned, Clayton County police said.Ambriz's body was found Oct. 26 in an abandoned building on Arrowhead Boulevard, about a mile from the El Progresso grocery store where she worked. Authorities have not said how she was killed.Hernandez will face murder charges for allegedly killing Ambriz and a Forest Park woman, police said.Four days before Ambriz went missing, Maria Gloria Galvan De Rivera was found dead in her home. Police believe robbery was the motive for killing the woman, who died from a combination of blunt force trauma, strangulation and stabbing, Forest Park police said.Hernandez is also the suspect in several robberies. Those include:

• On Oct. 17, El Banco on Tara Boulevard was robbed at gunpoint by a man who jumped over the counter, police said. The suspect stated, "Don't move or I'll shoot you 15 times (expletive). Give me the money," police said.
  
• On Oct. 23, a North Henry Boulevard nail salon was robbed at gunpoint, police said. Two female employees were zip tied, and the male suspect tried to remove the pants from one victim and put his hand down the shirt of another, police said.
  
• On Oct 24, a male with the same description entered a nearby hair salon on the same road, produced a gun and demanded money, police said.
  
• On Oct. 25 at the Paleteria La De Michoacan, an ice cream shop on Jonesboro Road in Forest Park, a man jumped over a cooler and pulled a gun on a store employee and a child before stealing money.
  
• Oct 26, Hernandez was arrested in the Payless store near Chamblee during a robbery attempt. He was transported to the DeKalb County jail, where he is being held without bond.
  

Poster's Note: After what all he's guilty and suspected of, and the brutal crimes against Monica, I cannot believe the smile of indignation in his mug shot. Dumb ass!

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