Melissa Chantel Huckaby, 28, is tied to a report that someone in January took a 7-year-old girl to a park for four hours and brought her back high on muscle relaxers.
The incident was reported on January 17 by a family in the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park. Huckaby lived in the same complex, also where 8-year-old Sandra Cantu lived before police found her dead body on April 10. Police arrested Huckaby four days later on suspicion on kidnapping, raping and killing Sandra.
The January report alleges that someone took a 45-pound blue-eyed dark-haired girl to a park. The woman and the child were gone for four hours, from about 1:30 to after 5 p.m., according to the police log. The woman who took the girl drove a purple Kia Sportage, according to the report.
Police towed a purple Kia Sportage registered to Huckaby the day after farmworkers found Sandra’s body inside a suitcase dumped in a dairy lagoon.
The police log also noted an officer said the girl might be with a mobile home park resident's "granddaughter." Huckaby until her arrest lived with her grandparents, Clifford Lane and Connie Lawless.
When the woman — apparently Huckaby — returned the girl, the family took her to the hospital. A doctor found benzodiazepines — a muscle relaxant — in the girl’s bloodstream, the police log noted.
Police logs say the girl’s mother had alcohol on her breath and carried around some type of drug. Police dismissed the incident because of the mother’s drug and alcohol problem, said a friend of the family’s who asked not to be identified because the FBI asked the family not to talk about the case. (Why didn't the police do something then. If I were this child's mother, I would be in a lawyer's office today. I don't care if I am falling down on the ground drunk, if my kid disappears with some strange woman and reappears with muscle relaxers in her system, the police better do something. The children of drug addicts-if this woman has a drug problem-need protecting more than any other children. I'm not afraid to say it. If police had done something back in January, Sandra Cantu would probably be alive. Shame on the Tracy police.)
Tracy police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said he can say nothing about the reported abduction in January because it’s part of the ongoing murder investigation. (The police aren't talking because they know this little girl's mother will probably be suing them, and they don't want to say anything that can be used against them. And if Melissa Huckaby is guilty she needs to admit it, and save Sandra Cantu's family...and her own the heartache of a trial.)
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