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NOTE: The video successful this communicative is from an earlier report.
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno County Sheriff's Office says the astir three-week hunt for 27-year-old Tiffany Slaton has proven to beryllium "troubling," fixed deputies' and volunteers' extended efforts that person resulted successful nary caller information.
According to Tony Botti with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, Slaton archetypal entered the Fresno County country astir April 20. On April 29, her household reported her missing.
Botti says Slatton is an extrovert, a satellite traveler and idiosyncratic who is not acrophobic to inquire for help, making the hunt that overmuch much concerning.
"We don't person immoderate accusation to springiness the nationalist close now," Botti said. "We cognize arsenic overmuch arsenic them."
According to Botti, the Sheriff's Office has exhausted respective resources, including a wide hunt of the Huntington Lake, Auberry Road and Shaver Lake areas.
"We really enactment retired a afloat hunt and rescue team," Botti said. "We had anyplace from 25 to possibly up adjacent to 50 radical retired successful the tract astatine 1 time."
Botti says the progressive hunt was yet scaled backmost connected Saturday, May 10.
At this time, Botti says determination is zero denotation of foul play - but determination is besides not capable important grounds to regularisation it out.
"In the small that we've learned astir Tiffany's voyage, it seems that she's travel crossed a batch of truly bully people. She seems precise trusting," Botti said. "We anticipation that she hasn't stumbled crossed the incorrect idiosyncratic with sick intentions. Of course, we can't regularisation that retired close present due to the fact that we person nary accusation to spell off."
Botti says the Sheriff's Office has been successful connection with Slaton's household successful Georgia, and Slaton's member adjacent traveled from Oregon to articulation the hunt enactment astatine 1 point.
As the upwind gets warmer, Botti says the Sheriff's Office hopes much and much radical volition spell extracurricular to hike and motorcycle successful the country and idiosyncratic volition find thing they missed.
"That's going to beryllium that galore much eyes that are retired determination for us," Botti said. "We are hoping that maybe, idiosyncratic volition traverse an country that we didn't and whitethorn spot something."
Botti says Tiffany's begetter Bobby has talked astir coming to Fresno County from Georgia to "carry the torch for his household and his community."
Bottis urges anyone from that assemblage acrophobic for Tiffany's information to pray.
"Say your prayers each and each day, we perceive miraculous stories," Boti said. "A batch of times, God successful supplication is down it."
