2006 Vicentini, Carla 2/9/06

Carla Vicentini 22, Endangered Missing Feb. 9, 2006 NJ.

Police seek missing woman Posted: February 21, 2006 NEWARK: On Feb. 9, Carla Vicentini walked out of a bar in the city's Ironbound section with an older man. The 22-year-old woman hasn't been seen since, and police yesterday asked for the public's help in finding her. Vicentini was last seen leaving the Adega Bar and Grill on Ferry Street, not far from her home. Police said she is white, with blond hair and blue eyes. She stands 5 feet, 7 inches and weighs about 140 pounds. Vicentini has a tattoo on her stomach and another on her back. On the day she disappeared, she was wearing white jeans and a blue Hugo Boss jacket. The man she was seen with is believed to be in his 30s, with salt- and-pepper hair. No further information about the man was available. Police ask anyone with information about Vicentini to call the department's Missing Persons Unit at (973) 733-4336.

Police: Missing New Jersey Woman Might Be in Honesdale Feb 22, 2006 NEWARK, NJ - The Newark Police Department is requesting the public's assistance in locating a missing Newark woman, 22 year old Carla Vicentini of Ferry Street. Police indicate she might be being held against her will in Honesdale, Pa. Vicentini was last seen by friends shortly after 2 a.m., February 9th at the Adega Bar and Grill located at 130 Ferry Street with an unknown Caucasian male with salt and pepper hair estimated to be in his 30s.

Vicentini is a Caucasian/Hispanic approximately 5'7” in height weighing 140 pounds with blue eyes and blonde hair. She has a tattoo on her stomach and back and was last seen wearing a Blue Hugo Boss coat, blue jeans and a white shirt. Newark Police have received a single anonymous call that a woman was being held against her will in an apartment, possibly Apt. 12H in a location in Honesdale, Pennsylvania; however police have received no further information and have not confirmed whether the call was a tip or a hoax. Chief Mark Flynn, Honesdale Borough Police, reported they had received the same notice but had no additional information. Police urge anyone with information about this woman or her whereabouts to contact Newark Police's missing person detectives at (973)733-4336.


Carla Vicentini
Sex Female
Race Caucasian
Date Of Birth 4/29/1983
Place Of Birth Brazil
Height 5'7"
Weight 140 pounds
Hair Blonde
Eyes Brown
Complexion Olive
Scars/Marks/Tattoos See Below

Last Seen February 9, 2006 NCIC M935522581 Circumstances: Carla was last seen leaving the Adega Bar & Grill located on Ferry Street in Newark, NJ on February 10, 2006 at 2:30AM. She may possibly be with a white male named "Antonio." Carla was last seen wearing a white sleeveless shirt, blue jeans, and high-heeled brown ankle boots. She does have a tattoo of a tiger on her stomach and a tattoo of an angel on her back. Contact Information: Any further information, please contact Newark Police Department at #973-733-4336 or NJSP Missing Persons Unit at #800-709-7090.

Ironbound visitor talks of her missing roommate
Thursday, February 23, 2006
BY CARMEN JURI Star-Ledger Staff

Carla Vicentini had been in this country only one month before she went missing two weeks ago after leaving with a stranger from a lounge in the Ironbound section of Newark.

Her roommate, Maria Eduarda, said Vicentini's parents and two younger sisters back home in the city of Goioerê are desperate, and news of her disappearance is well publicized in the Brazilian media. She said her father, Orlando Vicentini, has tried to come to the United States to search for his daughter but has not yet been granted a visa. "They're trying to do their best, but they are far from here," Eduarda said.

The 22-year-old Brazilian native came for a five-month stay as a cultural exchange student. Eduarda, who came with the same program, said she met Vicentini in Dover, where they stayed in a motel and worked at a White Castle for two weeks before moving to an apartment on Ferry Street in Newark owned by a friend of Vicentini's family. Vicentini had just started a job at the Mediterranean Manor in the Ironbound.

On Feb. 9, the first day of Eduarda's job as a cocktail waitress at the Adega Bar and Grill, Vicentini stopped at the restaurant's lounge about 10:30 p.m. She left to go home to change her clothes, she said.

When Vicentini returned, she was talking and drinking with a man in his early 30s, Eduarda said. She said the heavyset man had blue eyes, salt-and-pepper hair and an unshaven beard. He was wearing a black T-shirt. "He was very strange," Eduarda said. "Everybody was jumping and dancing, and he was quiet. He had a strange face, he looked unhappy." Eduarda found it unusual that her friend was talking to the man, who did not speak Portuguese. Vicentini speaks little English, she said. "I didn't know how they could communicate," she said.

Near closing time, around 3 a.m., Vicentini told her friend she was going to the man's car to look at a photo and to talk. Eduarda urged her not to go, but Vicentini would not listen, she said. As she was leaving, Vicentini handed Eduarda a piece of paper with the man's cell phone number. "I was dealing with money and lost it," Eduarda said. "We don't know if it was fake or real." "I tried to not leave her alone with this guy, but it was impossible," Eduarda said. "She walked out with him, then disappeared."

Newark police said one of Vicentini's friends told investigators an anonymous caller claimed a woman was being held against her will in an apartment in Honesdale, Pa. According to the friend, the caller did not leave any other information. Police said they are attempting to verify the information.

Police consider the man she was seen leaving the bar with a "person of interest." Vicentini is about 5-foot-7 and 140 pounds with blue eyes and blonde hair. She has a tattoo on her stomach and back and was last seen wearing a blue Hugo Boss coat, blue jeans and a white shirt. Anyone with information about Vicentini or the man she was seen leaving the bar with is urged to contact the missing persons bureau at (973) 733-4336.

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Carla Vicentini

Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
Alias / Nickname: Carlinha
Date of Birth: 1983-04-29
Date Missing: 2006-02-09
From City/State: Newark, NJ
Missing From (Country): USA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 22
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 67 inches
Weight: 130 pounds
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Medium
Identifying Characteristics: Multiple piercings in ears, pierced navel, pierced tongue, tattoo of a red "chameleon" on right side of abdomen, tattoo of a dark gray "angel" with open wings on back, previously fractured right side of collarbone.
Clothing: White sleeveless shirt, blue jeans, light brown high heeled ankle boots.
Jewelry: Silver ball in navel, silver ball in tongue, "Mormai" brand sportswatch worn on left wrist, large silver ring on ring finger, two silver rope style necklaces one with a pendant.

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Unknown. Carla was last seen at approximately 2:00am at a restaurant in the vicinity of the 100 block of Ferry St. in Newark, NJ. It is possible she returned to her residence on Ferry St. near the restuarant.

Investigative Agency:
Newark Police Department
Phone: (973) 733-4336
Investigative Case #: 06-14648
NCIC #: M-935522581

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Mother's search of Newark yields no sign of missing Brazil woman

Wednesday, May 24, 2006
BY CARMEN JURI
Star-Ledger Staff

Carla Vicentini had never ventured far from the small agricultural town in Brazil where she was born.

So when the opportunity arose for the 22-year-old engineering stu dent to visit the United States on a four-month work visa, she jumped at the chance.

For a year she saved her money. She talked incessantly about want ing to see things, and visit places, that had impressed friends who earlier had gone on the same cultural exchange program.

Vicentini arrived in the U.S. on Jan. 19. Three weeks later, she disappeared. The last time anyone saw her was at a bar in the Iron bound section of Newark on Feb. 9.

Authorities here and in Brazil still don't know what happened to her.

"There's no smoking gun or relevant piece of information to break this thing open," said Daniel Clegg, an American FBI agent stationed in Brazil.

Vicentini's disappearance has not gotten much publicity in the U.S. But the case has captured the attention of the public in Brazil and been prominently featured in the Brazilian press.

"It's huge, on TV shows, the Internet, the press," said Renata Oli veira, a family friend.

The news also devastated Vicentini's hometown of Goioere, a town of 28,000 in the south of Brazil.

"It's like a family from Tulsa, Oklahoma, sending a kid on an ex change program to Brazil, and the kid went to a bar one night and they've never seen her again," FBI agent Clegg said. "The fact that nobody can say what happened is killing them."

Last Friday, Vicentini's heartbroken mother, Tania, came to Newark to find answers. Her friend, Oliveira, came along.

"Nobody says anything anymore," Tania Vicentini said through a translator after she ar rived. "I need to know what happened. We need to start living again. Everyone has stopped their lives."

Carla's two younger sisters, father and boyfriend are grief- stricken, she said. April 29 -- Carla's birthday -- was a particularly painful reminder of her absence for everyone.

After visiting the Brazilian Consulate in New York City, Tania Vicentini headed to Newark police headquarters. Then she walked the streets of the Ironbound.

She retraced her daughter's steps from the night she disap peared. She talked to restaurant owners. And she looked for Carla's familiar face.

It was nowhere to be found.

Last night, Tania Vicentini re turned to Brazil, convinced police have not been given a truthful ac count of her daughter's final hours.

When Carla Vicentini first ar rived in New Jersey, she shared a motel room in Dover with three women on the same work program. She got a job at a White Castle res taurant, but after two weeks in the cramped quarters decided to move to Newark and stay in the Ferry Street apartment of a family friend.

That friend, Jose Fernandes, is a client of Vicentini's father, an accountant. Fernandes is 75 years old and divides his time between Newark and Brazil, according to Tania Vicentini.

Shortly after moving to the Newark apartment, Vicentini was joined by her friend, Maria Eduarda.

Eduarda was working as a cocktail waitress at Adega Bar and Grill on Ferry Street. Vicentini got a job as a waitress at the Mediterranean Manor, also in the Ironbound.

On Feb. 9, Vicentini stopped at Adega's lounge about 10:30 p.m. and left to go home to change her clothes, according to Eduarda. When Vicentini returned, she was talking and drinking with a heavyset man in his early 30s who had blue eyes, salt-and-pepper hair and a beard, Eduarda said.

"Everybody was jumping and dancing, and he was quiet," Eduarda said at the time. "He had a strange face, he looked unhappy."

About 3 a.m. Vicentini told her friend she was going to the man's car to look at a photo and to talk. On her way out, she handed Eduar da's manager a piece of paper with the man's cell phone number on it and instructed him to give it to Eduarda, Eduarda said.

"I was dealing with money and lost it," Eduarda said. "We don't know if it was fake or real."

Tania Vicentini doubts Eduar da's account. She said other witnesses saw Carla walk home alone from the bar. In addition, the Hugo Boss jacket her daughter was seen wearing was found in her apart ment. All of Carla's belongings, including her passport, turned up there.

Tania Vicentini believes her daughter was taken by force from the apartment. Surely her daughter would not have left her apartment, coatless and wearing a sleeveless shirt, on a cold winter day, she said.

Vicentini said she is also suspi cious of Fernandes' story. He told police he was asleep the evening of Carla's disappearance and did not hear her return home, Vicentini said. Yet two weeks ago at a public hearing of the Brazilian senate he testified he heard Carla entering and leaving the apartment that evening, according to published reports.

Fernandes lives in Goioere, the Vicentinis' hometown. He has not called or visited the family, al though he returned to Brazil four days after Carla's disappearance, Tania Vicentini said. She said their relationship has been strained and Fernandes avoids her family.

"We think he knows something more than he has said," Vicentini said.

Fernandes could not be reached for comment. Authorities have said he returned to Brazil to finalize his divorce.

Newark police, meanwhile, say their investigation is ongoing. Shortly after Carla's disappearance they received an anonymous phone call claiming a woman was being held against her will in an apart ment in Honesdale, Pa.

Carla Vicentini is about 5 feet 7 and 140 pounds with blue eyes and blonde hair. She has a tattoo of a red chameleon on her stomach and a tattoo of a dark gray angel with open wings on her back. She also has multiple piercings in her ears, a pierced navel and tongue. Police say she was last seen wearing a blue Hugo Boss coat, blue jeans and a white shirt.

Anyone with information about her, or the man with whom she was seen leaving the bar, is urged to contact the missing persons bureau at (973) 733-4336.

Carmen Juri covers the Ironbound. She may be reached at cjuri@starledger.com or (973) 392-1853.

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Talk of the Town (a Small Brazilian Town)


By SETH KUGEL (NYT) 1242 words
Published: May 28, 2006

NEWARK - SINCE 22 year-old Carla Vicentini disappeared in Newark on Feb. 9, Karlos Kohlbach has written more than 35 newspaper articles about her case. One of the nation's most popular television shows ran a segment on it. And a Senate commission held a hearing.
It was not here that all this happened, but in Ms. Vicentini's native Brazil. Mr. Kohlbach is a reporter for Gazeta do Povo, or People's Gazette, in her home state of Paraná. The television show, Fantástico, is a Sunday night must-watch on the Brazilian network Globo. And the Senate hearings were in Brasília.


By contrast, the mainstream American news media have barely touched the story. The Star-Ledger did one small article and, at least as far as anyone involved in the case knows, television news never mentioned it at all.

All of which raises the question: why would something that happened in the Ironbound section of Newark -- a city of about 300,000 people -- be a huge national story thousands of miles away and yet be virtually ignored where it took place?

Mr. Kohlbach, the reporter, said the case was a natural for the Brazilian press. ''There are so many Brazilians coming to the United States,'' he said, ''and it's common for them to be deported or imprisoned, but disappearances are not so common. The story broke away from the typical profile of 'he was deported, he was put in jail.' She was legal.''

But he could not explain why he could find barely any information in the English-language news media. Instead, he followed the coverage through Portuguese-language newspapers in Newark.

Indeed, efforts by a dedicated but makeshift team to get more mainstream coverage faltered. One problem: her two biggest English-speaking advocates were in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Charlotte, N.C.

Family and friends wonder if things would have been different if she had had family members who could speak English, or who lived in Newark and thus could bang on doors to publicize -- and humanize -- the case.

Still, it seemed compelling: Ms. Vicentini had arrived from the small city of Goioerê on a work exchange program, a dream trip to the United States that would allow her to work here temporarily. A photograph from a going-away party shows a beaming blonde in a red blouse and white shorts, surrounded by friends and looking even younger than 22.

But things did not go as planned. She was assigned to work at a White Castle restaurant in Dover and share a small motel room with several other women in the program. Unhappy, she went with a new friend, a Brazilian named Eduarda Ribeiro, to Newark.

She and Ms. Ribeiro moved into the living room of an apartment owned by a family acquaintance, 70-year-old Jose Fernandes, who owned businesses in both Goioerê and Newark. Both she and her friend quickly got jobs in Newark restaurants. She called her mother every day to keep her up to date.

Four days later, she disappeared. On the cold snowy night of Feb. 9, after her shift ended, she came by the Adega Bar & Grill, Ms. Ribeiro's workplace. Employees in the lounge remember her staying until around closing time, 3 a.m., but the story gets confusing from there.

Did she leave with a man named Antonio, who Ms. Ribeiro told reporters had been buying Ms. Vicentini drinks? If so, why were her wallet, passport and jacket found in her apartment just a few blocks down Ferry Street? Who called Mr. Fernandes's cellphone a few days later and screamed for help?

Still, people disappear all the time. Fifteen of the missing-persons cases reported to the Newark police this year are still open. More than 450 people have been reported missing, most juvenile runaways.

Not everyone makes the news.

But in this case, it was not for lack of trying. The lack of coverage ''really, really ticks me off,'' said Joan Scanlon-Petruski, who runs the Kristen Foundation, a nonprofit organization in North Carolina that provides support for families of missing adults. She has been regularly contacting cable news programs to cover the case.

Ms. Scanlon-Petruski became involved when she was contacted by Renata Ribeiro (no relation to Eduarda), a fluent English speaker who lives in Belo Horizonte, far from Goioerê. Ms. Ribeiro had been touched by national Brazilian coverage of the case and contacted the family, almost immediately becoming their advocate, interpreter and friend. Ms. Ribeiro found Ms. Scanlon-Petruski's organization on the Internet.

And in Brazil, the news media kept coming. The F.B.I. was joining the investigation? Article. Ms. Vicentini's parents were taking sleeping pills to get through the nights? Another article. The two-month anniversary of her disappearance? Another article. A psychic posts a supposed message from beyond the grave from her on the Internet? Well, not such big news in Brazil, but front-page news in the Newark-based Portuguese-language Brazilian Voice.

Ms. Vicentini's advocates have not only criticized the mainstream American news media, but also the Brazilian Consulate in Manhattan, which they accuse of not pursuing the case actively. The Brazilian consul general, Jose Alfredo Graça Lima, said in a telephone interview that three or four staff members had been working diligently on the case and ''are in contact with the family and with the local authorities.''

But he was not aware of the recent Senate commission hearing in Brazil about the case, which itself made news, and Ms. Vicentini's mother, Tânia Vicentini, said that until recently two months had passed without a word from the consulate.

On April 29, Carla Vicentini turned 23. It was a difficult day for her mother. ''I told my family and friends, don't remind me it's her birthday,'' Tânia Vicentini said. ''This month has a 28th and a 30th, but no 29th. I'll only remember that day when I have her back.''

The family is working under the assumption that she is alive. Hermes Parcianello, a Brazilian federal deputy who represents the Vicentinis' hometown and is the equivalent to a United States representative, said the Newark police had told him that Ms. Vicentini could have been kidnapped as a sex slave.

In an e-mail response to questions, Detective Hubert Henderson, a Newark Police Department spokesman, declined to speculate about what happened, but said that the investigation is being handled by the Major Crimes Squad, including two Portuguese-speaking detectives. ''We never lose hope that a case will be resolved,'' he wrote.

Earlier this month, concerned that there was not much movement in the case, Tânia Vicentini decided to come to New York on a visa rushed through by American officials. She arrived in Newark on Friday morning, May 19, accompanied by Mr. Parcianello, Ms. Ribeiro and Mr. Kohlbach, the reporter. And indeed, things began to happen.

Mr. Lima, the consul general, met with her, announcing that a lawyer had been hired to represent the family, something the family had long sought. The police and managers from the Adega met with her at length. The Star-Ledger sent its reporter out again.

But the story still resonates far more in Brazil. On May 20, Ms. Vicentini walked down Ferry Street, where her daughter lived ever so briefly. The mother's big, expressive eyes, remarkably like her daughter's, brimmed with tears as she stood in front of the Adega, where Ms. Vicentini had last been seen. ''I think I'm going to explode,'' she said.

No television cameras were rolling; there was just Mr. Kohlbach, snapping digital shots for Gazeta do Povo back in Paraná.




Photos: Carla Vicentini, before she moved to the United States, at her going away party in Brazil. She eventually moved to Newark, where she disappeared on Feb. 9.; The Adega Bar & Grill in Newark, where Carla Vicentini, left, was last seen. (Photo by Dith Pran/The New York Times)

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After Over Two Months Disappeared Brazilian Girl in the US Still Missing
Written by Newroom
Wednesday, 26 April 2006
Today, April 26, Brazil's Minister of Justice, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, will meet with Orlando and Tânia Maria Vicentini, who are the parents of a Brazilian, Carla Vicentini, who disappeared over two months ago in the United States.

Carla was living in Newark, New Jersey, where she was studying English. She was last seen on February 9.

Mr and Mrs Vicentini will also participate in a public hearing at the Joint Congressional Commission on Illegal Immigration.

Carla Vicentini, who is 22, was last seen on February 9, walking out of The Adega Bar and Grill on Ferry Street in the Newark's Ironbound section where there is a concentration of Brazilian expats. The place is close to the Brazilian girl's home. According to witnesses she was in company with an older man.

According to the police, Vicentini is blonde and has brown eyes. She stands 5 feet, 7 inches and weighs about 140 pounds. Some identifying signs: a tattoo of an angel on the back and another of a tiger on the stomach.

At the time of her disappearance, she was wearing white jeans and a blue Hugo Boss jacket. The man who left with her seemed to be in his 30s and has salt-and-pepper hair.

Anyone with news on the Brazilian girl should call Newark's Police Missing Persons Unit at (973) 733-4336.

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23/02/2006 - 20h38m
Amiga of disappeared Brazilian puts down in the policy

Ana Paula de Carvalho - Special for the Globe

CURITIBA - the family of the paranaense student Carla Vicentini, of 22 years, missing person since last day 9 of February in Newark, New Jersey (U.S.A.), waits with expectation the result of the deposition that Maria Eduarda Ribeiro gave in this thursday to the American policy.

Maria Eduarda was the last person who saw Carla in company of an American, but the family does not know what Eduarda said to the policy in this fifth.

The father of Carla, Orlando Vicentini, informed that he tried contact with the father of Maria Eduarda in Brasilia, but did not have good receptividade.

- I very found the father of it cold. I entered in contact so that it, as father, bound for it and asked for so that it said the truth - Orlando explained.

The parents and the boyfriend of Carla find that the friend can be hiding the truth.

- On the first time, it said that she made a composite picture, but did not make. Nothing of what it says she beats - she lamented Orlando Vicentini, that cogitates the possibility to travel to the United States to get information of the American policy directly.

Maria Eduarda alleged that the youngster did not know who left with Carla of the bar, place where the brasiliense works. According to it, the American must have about 30 years and was strange and introspective.

The friend of the disappeared student says previously that she was not about kidnapping, but that she must have been imprisoned for somebody.

The student says that she did not have cameras in the bar where Carla was seen by the last time. The policy, obtained ribbons with the owner.

The mother also waits notice of the son and said that she received from friends in the United States a notice propagated for an American periodical of Honesdale, in the Pensilvânia, of a woman queestava being kept imprisoned in one room of hotel.

- The detectives are there for checking if she can be my son. It is much untied information and much expectation - she relieved Tânia Vicentini, the mother of Carla, who deferred payment in Goioerê, in the Paraná.

Already the boyfriend of Carla, Thiago Amaro, is trying next to the Federal Policy that the responsible supplier for the virtual community Orkut points the user whom it had access given particular of Carla.

In the community, one of the depositions most impressive comes of the aunt, Elizete Vicentini:

- Carla, where you are? Why he was to live far from the aunt? How many times I spoke with you in the MSN, did not only make to beg you to be because the aunt wise person who would be useless. Jesus, illuminates the way of my girl, return-in please.

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22/02/2006 - 12h15m
Father tried to convince disappeared Brazilian not to live in U.S.A.

Mayumi Aibe - Online Globe

RIVER - the father of the Brazilian disappeared in the United States, Orlando Vicentini, counted in this Wednesday to GLOBE ONLINE that did not want that its son had IDO to study English in the exterior. According to it, Carla Vicentini, 22 years, gave up the Textile college of Engineering, that attended a course has about four years in its native city, Goioerê, in the Paraná.

- I tried to convince it it to be in Brazil and to make one another college. But it was not liking it course and said that she would think about what making after coming back of the United States - it said, who has an office of accounting in Goioerê.

Orlando said that, later that Carla took the decision, it was satisfied and it did not have any concern:

- My son is very active and dynamic. I did not have fear.

Carla arrived at U.S.A. in day 19 of January and was seen by the last time in day 9, at night, leaving a snack bar with an American, in the city of Newark, New Jersey. The father said to suspect of some type of envolvement of the colleague of apartment of it, Maria Eduarda Ribeiro.

- Already I spoke with the Duda about ten times since that my son disappeared. I find that it is trying to hide some thing. It did not want to make the composite picture of the man - Orlando affirmed.

GLOBE ONLINE tried to speak with Maria Eduarda, for cellular, but it was not located. Carla knew it during the trip to the United States. Orlando remembered that the two had been to live in an apartment rented for a customer of its office of accounting, Jose Fernandes Madeira Martins.

Orlando Vicentini also counted that the son namorava has few months the Carioca Tiago Amaro, inhabitant of Niterói. It has two sisters, Fernanda, of 20 years, and Andressa, of 15, that they study in Maringá. Fernanda is finishing the college of Physical Education. Carla already liveed in Curitiba, where she concluded average education. It wanted to have studied Chemical Engineering, but she did not pass in the vestibular contest.

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Policy divulges name of suspicious

The paranaense, natural immigrant of Goioerê, will complete 23 years in 29 of April

Two months after its disappearance, the photograph of the immigrant Carla Vicentini, 22 years, natural of Goioerê, interior of the Paraná, was published in the official site of the New Jersey State Police. Carla, who will complete 23 years in 29 of April, was seen the last time leaving the Cellar Bar & Grill, in the Ferry Street, Newark - NJ, the dawn of 10 of February of this year in company of a stranger. The case was manchete in the Brazilian Voice Newspaper and gained repercussion international, including the intervention of FBI and the Department of Policy of Newark, New Jersey.

According to information in the electronic page: www.webdb.state.nj.us, Vicentini, probably, are in company of a caucasiano individual, vulgo “Antonio”. In the day of its disappearance, it it was wearing a white t-shirt without sleeves, long pants jeans and boots of brown high pipe. Moreover, Carla possesss the tattooing of a tiger in it abdômem and the figure of an angel in the coasts.

The photograph of Carla, NCIC M935522581, is in the section of people disappeared in all the state of New Jersey.

In last the 13 of March, the team of news article of the BV interviewed, for telephone, Tânia Maria Pereira Vicentini, disappeared mother of the young one. In the occasion, it it said that the authorities kept frequent contact with its family.

“It has some days, them (the authorities) they bind and they make questions, but they do not pass no information because they say that it has that to have secrecy complete during the inquiries. They had said me that they are taking care of of the case with much affection, that does not stop to work, but do not divulge no information because everything has that to be very sigiloso. They are analyzing belongings of it that they had been in the apartment, make questions, say words to me of comfort, ask for so that I am calm, that they are not leaving nothing of side and that at the opportune moment they will pass me some information immediately”, I explained Tânia.

According to it, the policy will only inform when it will have concrete information on the paradeiro of Carla.

“They (authorities) also had said me that they do not deal with hypotheses and yes with concrete facts, therefore, they only go to say some thing to me when they will be certain”, she added.

Tânia demonstrated concern for the possibility of that its son has been led for another state, consequently, making it difficult the inquiries.

“My bigger concern at the moment is that it (Carla) has been led for another state. The times, I am imagining if it still is there in New Jersey or if she was led for another place”, commented it.

Any information that has led to the paradeiro of Carla Vicentini must be sent to the Department of Policy of Newark, through the telephone (973) the 733-4336 or Unit of People Disappeared for tel.: 1 (800) 709-7090.

DOB: 1983-04-29

Date Missing: 2006-02-09

From: Newark, NJ

Age ATD: 22

Gender: female

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Circumstances of Disappearance: Carla was working in U.S. on 4 month work visa. Went missing from Adega Bar in New Jersey.

Investigative Agency: Newark Police Department

Phone: 973-416-7770

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year later, few clues in woman's disappearance
Brazilian native hasn't been seen since she left Newark nightclub

Friday, February 09, 2007
BY CARMEN JURI
Star-Ledger Staff

Tania Vicentini tries to forget her daughter's birthday and any other milestone in her firstborn's life. During the holidays, she tried to erase thoughts of Carla Vicentini, who was last seen one year ago in Newark.

She certainly does not plan to mark the one-year anniversary today, when her daughter went missing half a world away.

"These kinds of dates are very painful for me. I try not to remember them," said Vicentini, who lives in Brazil. "So I'll try to pretend it is not happening to me."

Though it has been difficult for her mother to accept, the facts of her daughter's disappearance re main the same: Carla Vicentini ar rived in New Jersey on Jan. 19, 2006, and three weeks later, on Feb. 9, was gone without a trace. The 22-year-old engineering student was last seen leaving Adega Bar and Grill in Newark's Ironbound section.

Police say there are no significant leads even though a detective has been assigned full-time to her case. Officials say they have even compared her dental records to corpses that have been discovered over the past year, but they have not matched. And the FBI remains on the case.

"There's no stone we haven't turned," said Acting Police Chief Anthony Campos. "Unfortunately, we hit dead ends. We do not intend to stop. We are looking at every angle."

During the holidays, the Kristen Foundation, a missing persons group, paid for the installation of a 10-by-22-foot billboard near Rector Street, about a half-mile south of the Route 280 overpass.

Vicentini's image appears along with a sketch of the man she was last seen with. The billboard offers a $10,000 reward for information leading to Vicentini's location and the identity of the man.

The billboard has not led to any new information, Campos said.

The case frustrates detective Evandro Saramago, who was assigned to it last September.
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“Missing person foundation offers $5k reward in Carla Vicentini

Newark Chief of Police Anthony Campos today announced that the Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the safe return of 22-year-old Carla Vicentini. She was last seen by friends at the Adega Bar and Grill located at 130 Ferry Street in Newark's Ironbound section on February 9 th of this year at approximately 2:30 am.
Since her disappearance the Newark Police Department in working with the NJ State Police and the FBI have conducted several hundred interviews and spent countless hours investigating any leads into the Carla Vicentini case.
Chief Campos stated, "We have worked extremely hard exploring every investigative lead, utilizing every available resource, in our efforts to locate Carla and to determine how and why she became missing. Despite having exhausted all of our current leads we will not be discouraged and will continue our tireless efforts to locate Carla Vicentini."
Kim Petersen, Executive Director of The Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation noted, "We all have a responsibility to do our part to help make our community a safe place." Peterson hopes that their offer of a reward will perhaps lead to new and critical information in the case as the Foundation has seen in the past in many cases across country. The Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation was created by the parents of the three missing sightseers Carole and Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso who were reported missing and later found murdered near Yosemite National Park in February of 1999.
While they were missing, Carole Sund's parents, Francis and Carole Carrington, at the request of the FBI, posted rewards both for their safe return and for information leading to the whereabouts of their rental car.The Carrington's' believe that the posting of these rewards and the media attention they received, contributed to the car being located and gave them the first break in their case. They were thankful that they had the financial means to offer these rewards and it's because of this that they have started The Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation. This foundation was established to assist families such as the family of Carla Vicentini who are in similar circumstances as the Carrington's in that Carla is a missing person.
The Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the safe return of Carla. We know that reward money can make a difference because the foundation's reward money has already assisted in the location of nine missing persons, the apprehension of 35 murder suspects and three kidnappers of young children. We currently have 38 suspects in custody in ten states. To date the Foundation has paid a total of $247,500 in rewards to citizens who did the right thing by coming forward and sharing the information they had regarding these cases.
Vicentini is a Brazilian woman approximately 5'7 in height weighing 140 pounds with blue eyes and blonde hair was last seen wearing a Blue Hugo Boss coat, blue jeans and a white shirt and has several identifying characteristics. She has multiple body piercings including her ears, navel, and tongue. She also has tattoos of a red chameleon on the right side of her abdomen and another tattoo of a dark gray angel with open wings on her back.
Carla Vicentini was last seen leaving the Adega Bar and Grill bar with an unknown Caucasian male possibly named "Antonio" described as being in his early 30's, approximately 5'8" in height and 200 lbs with a stocky build. The man reportedly has salt and pepper hair and blue eyes wearing a black t-shirt. Police consider this male a "person of interest" who is only wanted for questioning at this time.
Chief Campos said we are looking for individuals and businesses who are both willing to donate to Carla's reward money and to help us to establish our own fund. Doing so would enable us to offer our own rewards without having to rely on or solicit outside agencies for the monies. Anyone interested is urged to contact the Police Director's Office at (973) 733-6007.
Chief Campos, who urges people to come forward, said there has to be people out there that saw something or know something that they believe is insignificant and have not come forward. There are also those who are afraid because of such reasons as their immigration status or they just do not want to become involved. Information can be provided anonymously by anyone who is afraid or worried. That which seems insignificant may be what we need to solve the case. Please call the Newark Police at (973) 733-5400.”

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PHOTO CARLA VINCENTINI

"Abduction" puzzle.

February 22, 2006 -- A young Brazilian woman has mysteriously disappeared in Newark — and cops say they have only a description of a man with whom she was last seen, and an anonymous tip that she's being held captive in Pennsylvania.

Carla Vincentini, 22, was last seen by friends Feb. 9 in the Adega Bar and Grill on Ferry Street in Newark's Ironbound district.

Vincentini left the bar with an unknown white man with salt-and-pepper hair and blue eyes, who appeared to be in his early 30s, about 5-feet-8, weighing 200, wearing a black T-shirt, cops said.

"It's somebody that she's believed to have met earlier that night," said Newark Police Capt. Derek Glenn.

Recently, he said, an alleged tipster phoned a Vincentini friend, saying the missing girl was being held against her will in an apartment — possibly one identified as 12H — in Honesdale, Pa., 111 miles from Newark.

Vincentini is Caucasian/Hispanic, 5-foot-7 and 140 pounds. She has blue eyes and blond hair, tattoos on her stomach and back, and last was seen wearing a blue Hugo Boss coat, blue jeans and a white T-shirt.

Anyone with information about her whereabouts should contact Newark police at (973) 733-4336.

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Minister meets parents of girl missing in US

Brasília - Today minister of Justice, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, will meet with Orlando and Tânia Maria Vicentini, who are the parents of a Brazilian, Carla Vicentini, 22, who disappeared over two months ago in the United States.

Carla was living in Newark, New Jersey, where she was studying English. She was last seen on February 9.

Mr and Mrs Vicentini will also participate in a public hearing at the Joint Congressional Commission on Illegal Immigration.

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Carla Vicentini


Above Images: Vicentini, circa 2006


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: February 9, 2006 from Newark, New Jersey
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date of Birth: April 29, 1983
Age: 22 years old
Height and Weight: 5'7, 130 - 140 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian (Brazilian Portuguese) female. Blonde hair, brown eyes. Vicentini's nickname is Carlinha. She has a pierced tongue, a pierced navel and multiple ear piercings, and she has previously fractured the right side of her collarbone. Vicentini has a tattoo of a red chameleon on the right side of her abdomen and a tattoo of a dark gray angel with opened wings on her back. Photographs of both tattoos are posted below this case summary. Vicentini's native language is Brazilian Portuguese; she speaks little English.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A white sleeveless shirt, a blue Hugo Boss jacket, blue or white jeans, light brown high-heeled ankle boots, a silver ball in her navel, a silver ball in her tongue, a Mormai sports wristwatch on her left wrist, a large silver ring on her ring finger, and two silver rope necklaces, one with a pendant.


Details of Disappearance

Vicentini was last seen at approximately 2:00 a.m. on February 9, 2006 at the Adega Bar and Grill in the vicinity of the 100 block of Ferry Street in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. She had gone there to visit a friend who worked at the restaurant.
Vicentini left the establishment with a man who is described as in his thirties and heavyset with blue eyes, salt-and-pepper hair and an unshaven beard. He was wearing a black t-shirt. Her companion has not been identified, but his first name may have been Antonio. He and Vicentini were drinking and talking with each other before they left together; it is unclear how they could communicate, as Vicentini speaks little English and the man did not speak Portuguese, her native language. The man was reportedly quiet and sullen. When Vicentini left with the man, she told her friend she was going to the man's car to look at a photo and to talk. It is believed that she returned to her residence on Ferry Street near the restaurant after she was last seen, as her wallet, passport and jacket were found there. She has never been heard from again. The man she was last seen with is considered a person of interest in her disappearance.

Several days after Vicentini went missing, someone called her boss's cellular phone and screamed for help. The caller has never been identified.

Vicentini was born and raised in a small agricultural town in Brazil, and came to the United States less than a month prior to her disappearance; she was planning to stay a few months as part of a cultural exchange program. She had saved her money to go to the U. S. and was very happy about the opportunity. Vicentini was initially assigned to work at a White Castle restaurant and live in a small motel room with several other women in the program, but she became unhappy with the arrangement, moved out and changed jobs. She was an engineering student at the time she went missing. She lived with a roommate and had just started a job at the Mediterranean Manor.

Vicentini's disappearance has been well-covered in the media in Brazil and in Portuguese-language newspapers in New Jersey, but the mainstream American press has given it little attention. Authorities believe she disappeared under suspicious circumstances.



Above Images: Vicentini's tattoos


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Newark Police Department
973-733-4336



Source Information
The National Center for Missing Adults
The Star-Ledger
The Carol Sund/Carrington Memorial Foundation
The New York Times



Updated 3 times since October 12, 2004.

Last updated March 2, 2007; details of disappearance updated.

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Carla Vicentini


Carla was last seen leaving the Adega Bar & Grill located on Ferry Street in Newark, NJ on February 10, 2006 at 2:30AM. She may possibly be with a white male named "Antonio." Carla was last seen wearing a white sleeveless shirt, blue jeans, and high-heeled brown ankle boots. She does have a tattoo of a tiger on her stomach and a tattoo of an angel on her back. If you have any information, please contact Newark Police Department at 973-733-4336 or N.J.S.P. Missing Persons Unit at 800-709-7090.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Race: Caucasian;
Date of Birth: 4/29/1983;
Birth Place: Brazil;
Height: 5'7";
Weight: 140 pounds;
Hair: Blonde;
Eyes: Brown;
Complexion: Olive;
Scars/Marks/Tattoos: See above;
NCIC M935522581

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Tania Vicentini
http://x.myspacecdn.com/modules/common/sta...ar.gifDesperate mother - My daughter is MISSING

It has been over a year and I still don’t know my daughter’s whereabouts. She has been missing since February 2006 from Newark, NJ. She is from Brazil and was in the USA on an exchange program. My family and I have stopped living our lives since the day we found out Carla was missing. I feel anguish, a very hard pain in my chest and I miss Carla so much. It seems like the love I feel increases every day even more. We need to find her and know is what happened. We are desperate and need your help. We don’t even live in the US. Please help us spreading the word. You may find information about the case on : http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/...php?A200604165S I am a desperate mother begging for help. Thank you, Tania Vicentini (taniavicentini@hotmail.com)


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http://media.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/p...arge.jpgKristen FoundationCarla Vicentini, a Brazilian student who vanished after leaving a Newark club four years ago, will be featured in a billboard to be erected Monday on McCarter Highway.NEWARK — Joan Petruski’s life mission is to find missing people, but the case of Carla Vicentini, a Brazilian student who vanished after leaving a Newark bar four years ago, is personal to her.
At the time, Petruski, who runs the Kristen Foundation in North Carolina, promised the mother of the missing girl that she would work relentlessly to discover what happened.


Carla Vicentini’s mother, Tania, lives in Brazil and calls Petruski her "voice, arms and heart in the U.S."
"I want answers to her disappearance," said Petruski, her voice quivering. "I want to bring her home, whether it’s rescue or recovery. I refuse to go with recovery right now."
To aid their search, the foundation has paid for a billboard to be erected Monday on McCarter Highway, just south of Fulton Street. The 10-by-22-foot billboard, which will remain on display for the next month, shows a smiling Vicentini and offers a reward for information leading to her location.
http://media.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/p..._medium.jpgfile photoCarla Vicentini , 22
Vicentini, and friends of the family, hope the billboard reminds law enforcement officials that Carla is still missing and refreshes the public’s memories about her and what they saw the night of Feb. 9, 2006 in a bar in Newark’s Ironbound.
"It seems like the case is stagnant," said Julio Letrari, a Newark resident and friend of the Vicentini family. "Even if her daughter is dead, she would like to find out and see her for the last time. She doesn’t want to live with this question mark."
Carla Vicentini, a 22-year-old engineering student, arrived in the United States in January 2006 as part of a cultural exchange program.
She got a job at the Mediterranean Manor in the Ironbound and moved into an apartment on Ferry Street that belonged to a family friend.
Shortly after moving to Newark, her friend Maria Eduarda, moved there as well and began working as a cocktail waitress at Adega Bar and Grill on Ferry Street.
Authorities said on Feb. 9, a male friend drove Vicentini to Adega’s job. Vicentini had changed from her work clothes and had the bag of clothes with her at the bar. Details of what followed are sketchy. Some witnesses say they saw Vicentini walk home alone from the bar, while another said she got into a car with a stranger.
At the time, police said Vicentini had to have returned to the apartment because the bag of work clothes were later found there. All of her possessions remained in the apartment, including her passport.
Newark FBI spokesperson Bryan Travers said the case remains active and that Vicentini’s information is listed on the Newark FBI web site. He urges anybody with information to come forward, even if the facts may seem insignificant.
Newark police did not return repeated requests for comments on the case.
Carla Vicentini is described as about 5-foot-7, 140 pounds with blue eyes and blond hair. She has a tattoo on her stomach of a red chameleon and a tattoo on her back of a dark gray angel with open wings. She also has multiple piercings in her ears, a pierced naval and tongue. Police say she was last seen wearing a blue Hugo Boss coat, blue jeans and white shirt.
Tania Vicentini said she needs answers, but knows in her heart her daughter is not alive.
"I think that Carla isn’t alive because she would never stay more than two days without contacting the family," said Vicentini, who lives in Brazil. "Someone destroyed her dream (getting a chance to know a different country)."
Anyone with information about her is urged to call (973) 792-3000.