Family suspicious about how Ind. toddler vanished

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Jada Justice, 2, of Portage, Ind., has been missing since Tuesday night. She was last seen at a Gary convenience store. AP Photo/FBI

By WSBT News1

Story Created: Jun 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM EST

Story Updated: Jun 18, 2009 at 1:20 PM EST

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Family members say they are suspicious about the way the cousin of a 2-year-old girl told authorities the child went missing from outside a northwestern Indiana convenience store.

Authorities continued a search Thursday for 2-year-old Jada Justice of Portage that began when 18-year-old Angelica Castillo told Gary police that the child was gone when she returned to the car Tuesday night after buying a gallon of milk.

Gary police Cmdr. Anthony Titus says Castillo was being held as a person of interest, but that it did not yet not appear she had anything to do with the toddler's disappearance.

The girl's uncle, Mike Valdez, says he doesn't understand why search dogs could not pick up Jada's scent if she had just been in the car seat.

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