U.S. Marshals handling missing soldier case

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U.S. Marshals handling missing soldier case
By Holbrook Mohr - The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Feb 23, 2008 17:35:38 EST

JACKSON, Miss. — Six months after a Kentucky National Guard soldier and two guns disappeared from a training base in Mississippi, military officials say they developed no leads and have turned the case over to the U.S. Marshals Service.

Pfc. Ryan K. Longnecker, 19, was training at Camp Shelby in south Mississippi for a mission in Iraq when he disappeared on Aug. 6, 2007, just two weeks before his unit deployed. Longnecker’s military-issued 9mm pistol and M4 rifle were also missing.

Col. Phil Miller, a spokesman for the Kentucky National Guard, said Friday that the search for Longnecker was being handled by investigators at Camp Shelby, a Mississippi Guard base that has been federally mobilized since 2004 to train troops for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

“We don’t have any new information,” Miller said.

Col. Doril Sanders, a spokesman for Camp Shelby, said the investigation “has been turned over the U.S. Marshal Service.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_missingsoldier_080223/