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Witnesses describe recovered ID, pink onesie and surveillance video; prosecutors show January 9 text exchange
Summary
Border Patrol and local witnesses testified about a pink onesie and shoe found near the River Rouge, a resident turned in a school ID found March 7, and surveillance and carrier records show a Jan. 9 exchange between a TextNow/Instagram account for the child and the number 313‑585‑8719.
Court witnesses described several physical‑evidence items and digital messages connected to the investigation.
Border Patrol agent Wyatt Barnes testified that while searching the River Rouge bank near 7 Mile and Berg he recovered what he described as a pink onesie “mostly balled up in the brush with the shoe inside of it.” Barnes told the court he photographed the item, bagged it and reported coordinates to incident command; he provided decimal coordinates in testimony.
Valerie Louise Smith, a neighborhood resident, testified she found a school identification card in a grassy easement near her bus stop and turned it over to police on March 7,…
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