Cops say 'missing' pregnant Jersey City mom went to Puerto Rico on her own

Saturday, February 06, 2010
By KARINA L. ARRUE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Police initially thought that the pregnant Jersey City woman who disappeared from her home last week without her wallet, ID, cell phone or keys was missing, but now they are saying it was all a farce.

Aileen Cepeda Velasquez, 27, of Marion Place, said she was going to the store for a moment on the evening of Jan. 26 - a day before her due date - but she never returned.

Juanita Pacheco, a friend of Velasquez, filed the missing person report with police last week. But police said yesterday they have procured video proof that Velasquez voluntarily left the United States and went to Puerto Rico, said Lt. Edgar Martinez, Jersey City police spokesman.

The Journal paid a visit to her mother at her Marion Place residence yesterday, but the woman said in Spanish that she didn't know anything and refused to comment "because of nerves."

A native of Puerto Rico and the mother of 9-and 5-year-old girls, Velasquez reportedly was nine months pregnant with another baby girl, although at 5-foot-2, the 130-pound woman never showed any signs of pregnancy, police said.

The children's father is in Puerto Rico, police said.

"The Police Department is reaching out to people in an attempt to get (Velasquez) to speak with her mother and her children and police to let everyone know that she is OK," said Martinez, noting that until they talk to her, she is still classified as a missing person.

Police Director Samuel Jefferson said the department is "working in conjunction with other agencies" in an effort to stop crimes before they occur.

"The Jersey City Police Department works with the TSA and other agencies to help avoid a farce like this," he said, adding "a thousand man hours were wasted trying to track down this woman."

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Really who does that reporter think he is a cop. But hey you have to rule out everyything.

The field reporter in this news clip should be fired. How dare she ask a distraught mother who's pregnant daughter is missing, 'Was your daughter looking forward to having this little girl...?'

OF COURSE SHE WAS, YOU INSENSITIVE COW.

I saw lots of flyers in the stores & on the poles on WestSide ave & Broadway yesterday.

Pregnant Jersey City woman disappears just before due date By The Star-Ledger January 29, 2010, 5:54AM The mother of Aileen Vasquez, the missing pregnant Jersey City mother. JERSEY CITY -- Police were searching for a 27-year-old pregnant woman who disappeared just before her due date, according to a report in The Jersey Journal. The report said Aileen Cepeda Velasquez, of Marion Place, left her house Tuesday to go to the store, but has been missing since then. Her family said the native of Puerto Rico is also the mother of nine- and five-year-old girls. Anyone with any information about Velasquez, or who has seen a woman with a newborn baby, is asked to call the Jersey City Police Department Missing Person's Unit at 201/547-5341 or 201/547-5477 and ask for Camacho.