Missing California mom has an active warrant, brother says she's 'not missing by choice'

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Whisper Owen, the Elk Grove parent who was reported missing retired of Fresno with her eight-month-old daughter, has an progressive warrant retired for her arrest.

The warrant is successful transportation with a 2020 felony kid maltreatment case. The lawsuit is not connected with her missing eight-month-old daughter, Sandra McCarty.

Despite the warrant, her member Richard Owen says helium does not judge she is connected the run.

"She is not connected the run, and she has nary crushed to run. She is simply a large ma that loves her children and has ne'er intentionally harmed them nor allowed them to beryllium harmed," helium said. "Please don't justice what you don't know. They are not missing by choice; thing has happened to my family."

36-year-old Whisper Owen

8-month-old Sandra McCarty

Owen and Sandra person not been seen since July 15, a time they spent mostly successful Fresno visiting with family. Before leaving town, Owen said they were headed backmost location to Elk Grove.

A timeline of her travels shows she was so headed that mode - but somewhat disconnected the beaten path.

After leaving her mother's location astir 5 p.m., postulation footage captured her SUV astir an hour's thrust distant adjacent Shaffer and Bellevue roads successful Atwater, astir 8 p.m.

The SUV was past confirmed traveling done Waterford astir 9 p.m. earlier making its mode to Highway 120, eastbound of Escalon. While these 2 towns are so connected the mode to Elk Grove, this way would person added astir fractional an hr to her trip.

Whisper's SUV confirmed traveling done Waterford astir 9 p.m

In a Friday nighttime societal post, Richard said she was apt taking backmost roads to debar being pulled implicit for her missing headlight. While she whitethorn person been avoiding a fix-it ticket, she besides whitethorn person been avoiding the progressive warrant retired for her arrest.

The warrant was issued connected Oct. 3, 2023, aft she failed to implicit a enactment project. The task was agreed upon pursuing her no-contest plea successful 2021 regarding a 2020 kid maltreatment case.

While she did not implicit the project, Richard says she went to court, was sentenced, and adjacent turned herself successful astatine 1 point, but was not capable to beryllium kept successful custody due to the fact that of her aesculapian needs.

"People are trying to marque her retired to beryllium immoderate benignant of monster that hurts her children present that we shared astir her warrant, and that's not my sister," her brother, Richard Owen, wrote successful a connection to YourCentralValley.com.

Police are inactive treating this arsenic a missing idiosyncratic case. Anyone who has seen Owen and Sandra, oregon their SUV, is asked to telephone 559-621-7000.

Owen is 5 feet 6 inches tall, 145 pounds, with bluish eyes and brownish hair; she was past seen wearing a achromatic vessel apical and ripped bluish jeans. Sandra is 1 ft 10 inches tall, 17 pounds, with greenish eyes and brownish hair; she was past seen wearing a pinkish onesie.

They were past seen successful a metallic 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer with CA licence sheet 9LKH008 and a damaged driver's broadside headlight.