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Updated: 8:43 PM Jun 26, 2009
Missing N.C. Woman Linked to Portsmouth, Ohio
A potential long distance romance that started on the Internet now has a family fearing the worst and local police working hard to find a missing 20-year-old North Carolina woman.
Posted: 8:36 PM Jun 26, 2009Reporter: Randy Yohe Email Address: randy.yohe@wsaz.com |
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PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WSAZ) -- A potential long distance romance that started on the Internet now has a family fearing the worst and local police working hard to find a missing 20-year-old North Carolina woman.
Nichole Alloway has been missing for more than two weeks. Her family thinks she has been abducted, and drugs are likely involved.
While police said it's too early to tell, they're wondering what might have happened to the North Carolina woman who fell in with the wrong crowd and then disappeared.
In mid-May, Alloway, a single mother left her two young children and her home near Raleigh, N.C., and traveled to Portsmouth. Her family said she had spent six months chatting on the Internet with a Portsmouth man . She traveled to meet him, but that lasted less than two weeks. Then, she met another Portsmouth man who was later arrested and found with stolen property that belonged to Alloway.
Police, however, said that neither man is suspected of wrongdoing. Both were interviewed and not determined to be suspects.
Alloway's family said they sent Nichole, who went to a homeless shelter, a bus ticket to return home, but she didn't use it. Then, her grandmother wired her some money by Western Union to the Kroger in Portsmouth.
Western Union clerks there said Alloway checked several times and got angry when the money did not arrive. When it did, she left the store, and that's the last place she was seen.
After that, there were reports of people spotting Alloway at the 14th Steet Community Center and the Farley Square Housing Complex, according to police, but they all came up empty. The family has hired a private investigator to help find the young mother.
Investigators said they're still following every good lead. If you know anything about where Alloway might be, you're asked to call the Portsmouth Police.
Latest Comments
Portsmouth isa very bad place and alot of drugs,glad i don'tlive there and i will pray for the family,people in up died down there alot and it's all mostly drugs i'm sure. Just when i visit my home town and was there to help my sisterbefore she past she told me places to drive fast through because of all the drugs someone needs to clean that town up and quick.God bless
it amazes me how it is possible for these animals by the last name howard and breech are still walking around with their freedom. Essie burned her own house down to hide evidence... PORTSMOUTH PLEASE WAKE UP!!!! They burned the house down because this is probally where nikkie was murdered! WHERE WERE THE POLICE?? WHY DIDNT THEY INVESTIGATE THE HOUSE PRIOR TO ESSIE AND HER SCUM HUSBAND GOT TO IT?? DIDNT ANYONE NOTICE THESE ANIMALS MOVED THE SAME WEEK NIKKIE WAS MURDERED??? HMMM I WONDER WHY! PORTSMOUTH PD YOU MAKE ME SICK!
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