By SANCHESKA BROWN
Tribune Staff Reporter
sbrown@tribunemedia.net
A MOTHER said her son, who is out on bail for armed robbery, has been missing for nearly three months and despite him being outfitted with an electronic monitoring device, she said police “have no idea” where he is.
A visibly distraught Machelle Gray said the last time she saw her son, 26-year-old Charlton Morley, was on Friday, May 1, when he left their Gamble Heights home with a friend.
Since then, Ms Gray said she has made several missing persons reports to the South Beach Police Station and the Central Detective Unit. She said she has also contacted ICS Security Concepts, the security firm responsible for electronic monitoring, but has had no answers.
Ms Gray said she believes in her heart that her son has been murdered and all she wants is to bury him and have some peace. However, she said because of his past she believes the police “do not care enough to find him.”
Morley was released on bail in October 2014 after he was charged in 2013 with armed robbery.
“He left the house like 5pm in short pants, Nike slippers and a shirt,” his mother said, recounting the last time she saw her son. “We got a call around 3am from ICS asking if we knew where he was, we said no. They told us the last time he was on the radar was around 9pm on Friday. So they told us, they sent a patrol car to the last spot he was seen, but they did not find him or the monitor. Then they told us they believe he cut it off and that is why it is dead but I know Charlton did not do that and if he did, where is it?” Ms Gray asked.
“So Sunday morning we went to South Beach Police Station to file a missing persons report. After a few weeks without hearing back from them, I got frustrated and went back. They told us they sent the file to the Central Detective Unit. So we went there and they told us they did not have the file. So we made another report and they say they were investigating but we haven’t heard anything.
“They haven’t questioned the friend who he went out with and now the boy is gone and we can’t find him either. I think they do not want to find him because he is an (alleged) criminal. They are trying to sweep it under the rug. He is a person, he is my son and he deserves the same respect as anyone else. We went to the commissioner and we kept getting told he was too busy. We have no idea what to do now. I know he did not run away, he is a mama’s boy, he would not leave me. He is not on the run. Someone killed him and someone knows where he is.”
Mr Morley’s aunt, Theresa Capron, said she just wants to be able to bury her nephew and give her sister some closure.
“I just want to say to the person involved, my sister only wants closure. If you kill him at least put the body where she can find it, she just wants to bury her son. She wants to end this. She can’t sleep, some days she can’t eat and she cries day and night. I cry with her. You already do what you have to do with him, put the body somewhere or tell someone and let that person tell someone. She can’t go on living like this.”
The Tribune contacted the Central Detective Unit and ICS Security, but calls were not returned up to press time.
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