SHAWNEE — Police are not confident a missing Shawnee woman is still alive, although her mother says she has not given up hope. Samantha Weaver, 27, was reported missing on June 15.

“I’m going to believe she’s alive until there’s proof she isn’t,” said Leona Dohren, 62, of Wisner, Neb. “I’m her mother, and it’s too horrible to think anything else.”

Shawnee police detective Ron Wilson said Weaver had gone to a casino in Norman with friends. She left with a man she knew, who said he dropped Weaver off two blocks from a house in Shawnee.

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Weaver sent a text message to the father of her two daughters on June 15, saying she would be at his house “in a bit,” but she never showed up. He reported her missing, Wilson said.

“For a young mother not to have contact with her kids for this long — something is not right,” Wilson said. “I don’t think she’s alive or she would have made contact with someone by now.”

Wilson said records show her cellphone hasn’t been used since the day she went missing.

Dohren said Weaver would not have abandoned her daughters, ages 2 and 6. Weaver and the girls’ father had separated. The children live with their father, but were with Weaver during the day while he worked.

Weaver telephoned her mother on her birthday about a week before she was reported missing.

“She talked about the future — getting a home for her and the girls and getting a job,” Dohren said.

Weaver also wouldn’t have left her father. The two had a standing weekly lunch date and spoke daily, she said.

Weaver is an amateur artist and poet who carried sketch pads and notepads with her wherever she went. Her notebooks were found in the home of the man who claims to have dropped her off the night she disappeared, her mother said.

“She’s basically a good kid who may have gotten messed up with the wrong people,” Dohren said.

Wilson agrees.

“It was likely someone she knew. She had been running with a pretty rough crowd,” Wilson said.

He said he has interviewed a couple of people who may be connected with Weaver’s disappearance, but police continue to search for evidence that could lead to an arrest.

Weaver is 5-foot-4, weighs about 115 pounds and has brown eyes and light brown hair.

Anyone with information can call Wilson at 273-2121.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police are searching for a University of California Los Angeles honors student who has been missing for more than four days.

Officials say 22-year-old David John Goeser’s 2001 white Toyota Corolla was found late Wednesday in the Pacific Palisades, where authorities are searching for clues in thick vegetation Thursday. Officers on horseback and aided by hound dogs are combing mountain trails for signs of him.

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Goeser was last seen by his roommates at his home and family members had not heard from him in over a week when they went to the home to look for him.

Police say they discovered the English major’s cellphone, identification and credit cards at the home.

Family members tell police that he is under a doctor’s care and needs regular medication.

KALKASKA — A search began today in Kalkaska for a 76 year old man named Darrold Bendush. He’s been missing for the past two days, and officials believe some legal issues may be the reason Bendush left.

The Kalkaska Police Deptartment has teamed up with the Michigan Deptartment of Corrections and local K-9 units to search for the man. They are using GPS tracking technology to grid search for him.

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Officials searched a two to three mile area around Bendush’s last known location, a McDonald’s, near a storage unit he owns, and throughout a 40-acre wooded property near Kalkaska.

Officials have also entered him into a national database for voluntarily missing individuals.

The Kalkaska Police Sergeant, Glenn Artress, stated, “There’s nothing that says Mr. Bendush is an endangered person. He left on his own free will, he’s not dependant on any meds, he’s not dependant on oxygen. Mr. Bendush is actually a pretty stable individual.”

Bendush is about 6’3″ and 180 pounds with blue eyes and sandy blonde hair. He has a scar on his face. If you see this man you’re asked to call the Kalkaska Police.

Tulsa –

A man went missing on Tuesday.

59-year-old Johnny Ray West was last seen walking eastbound from his residence in the 4500 block of East 33rd Street at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday.

Police said Mr. West suffers from a couple of potentially life-threatening conditions.

He may not have his medication with him.

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West is described as a white male, 5’11”, 190 to 200 pounds, with salt-and-pepper hair and a panther tattoo on his upper left arm.

He was last seen wearing a gray sleeveless shirt and blue jeans.

Anyone with information on Moore’s whereabouts is encouraged to call the Tulsa Police Department at 918-596-9222.