Still no results on search for Hogan

WILLEMSTAD — The large-scaled search which continued today in the surrounding of the peninsula of the Caracas Bay for the missing American vice-consul James Hogan, did not result in anything concrete towards midday. Advanced equipment such as a robot searching the sea bottom is amongst others used during the search.

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The Team Large-scaled Search has meanwhile also started distributing posters with a picture and description of Hogan, who was last seen on Thursday evening. The posters are distributed in the district and surrounding of Toni Kunchi, where the vice-consul lives with his family. Posters are also being put up elsewhere. Leads are received and investigated, but police spokesperson Reggie Huggins could not say anything about results upon the closure of this newspaper. However, he calls on the people to pass on any information whatsoever on Hogan.

The resident’s association of Toni Kunchi has received a request from the authorities to cooperate with a more expanded district search, as association member Peter Fontilus confirms. All family, friends, acquaintances, and neighbors had already been questioned last week. Fontilus does not know Hogan. The vice-consul lives a few streets down and his residence, just as every diplomat family, has its own security. The resident’s association mainly concerns the safety of the neighborhood, in particular at night. Many burglaries occurred a few years ago. The social control is not expansive in the neighborhood, says Fontilus, who for that matter has never seen Hogan walking in the neighborhood. The vice-consul told his wife on Thursday evening that he was going for a walk. Association-member Fontilus finds it unpleasant that the name of Toni Kunchi has now appeared in a negative light as the neighborhood is actually not dangerous. However, he finds it more unpleasant for Hogan’s family who are now in a state of suspense on their father. Fontilus also finds the disappearance a strange case. "You hear many things, also contradictive", but the association’s member does not wish to give his opinion on these rumors.

Police spokesperson Huggins said that he had not heard anything official on the findings of the Dutch Forensic Institute regarding the clothes found at the peninsula and the bloodstains. The clothes matched the description of the clothes, which Hogan wore on the evening of his disappearance. FBI-members are also cooperating with the search besides members of the NFI.

Morning newspaper Vigilante announced twice this week that FBI-agents had visited various brothels on the island to gather information on Hogan. According to unconfirmed reports, the vice-consul had held relationships with one or more Latin-American females.