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By CURT ANDERSON
NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — FBI agents and constabulary Monday swarmed the location of a young antheral wanted for questioning successful the disappearance of his girlfriend, Gabby Petito, whose assemblage was seemingly discovered implicit the play astatine a Wyoming nationalist park.
The FBI’s Tampa bureau said successful a tweet that it was serving a hunt warrant, and section media reported that 23-year-old Brian Laundrie’s parents were seen getting into a constabulary van extracurricular the home. Agents would not remark further.
Video showed astatine slightest a twelve instrumentality enforcement officers pulling up to the Laundries’ location successful North Port and rushing inside. Brian Laundrie and Petito had been surviving with his parents earlier making the cross-country trek connected which she died.
Petito, 22, disappeared aft she and Laundrie near successful July successful a converted van to sojourn nationalist parks successful the West. They got into a combat on the way, and Laundrie was unsocial erstwhile helium returned successful the van to his parents’ location connected Sept. 1, constabulary said.
In Wyoming, the FBI connected Sunday announced the find of a assemblage by agents searching campsites connected the borderline of Grand Teton National Park, which the mates had visited. An autopsy was acceptable for Tuesday.
“Full forensic recognition has not been completed to corroborate 100% that we recovered Gabby, but her household has been notified,” FBI cause Charles Jones said. “This is an incredibly hard clip for (Petito’s) household and friends.”
Jones and different instrumentality enforcement officials took nary questions during the evening quality conference.
Petito’s father, Joseph, posted connected societal media an representation of a breached bosom supra a representation of his daughter, with the message: “She touched the world.”
An lawyer who has been acting arsenic a spokesperson for Petito’s household asked successful a connection that the household beryllium fixed country to grieve.
Jones said investigators were inactive seeking accusation from anyone who whitethorn person seen Petito oregon Laundrie astir Grand Teton.
A play hunt of a Florida quality sphere failed to find Laundrie, North Port constabulary said. They said successful a connection that they “exhausted each avenues successful searching the grounds” of the 24,000-acre (9,700-hectare) Carlton Reserve successful Sarasota County.
Investigators focused intently connected the country aft Laundrie’s parents told constabulary helium whitethorn person gone there.
Petito’s household connected New York’s Long Island has been pleading for the Laundrie household to archer them wherever their lad past saw her.
Petito and Laundrie were puerility sweethearts who met portion increasing up connected Long Island. His parents aboriginal moved to North Port, astir 35 miles (55 kilometers) southbound of Sarasota.
Police video released by the Moab, Utah, section showed that an serviceman pulled the couple’s van implicit connected Aug. 12 aft it was seen speeding and hitting a curb adjacent the entranceway to Arches National Park. The body-camera video showed an upset Petito.
Laundrie said connected the video that the mates had gotten into a scuffle aft helium climbed into the van with soiled feet. He said helium did not privation to prosecute a home unit complaint against Petito, who officers decided was the aggressor.
Moab constabulary separated the mates for the night, with Laundrie checking into a motel and Petito remaining with the van.
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