06/05/2024
Update :
On May 30, 2024, at around 8:00 p.m. Neveah Martin ran away from her home located in Champion, NE. The Chase County Sheriff’s Office was made aware of the situation and immediately began working on the case. Neveah was entered into NCIC as a missing juvenile and Deputies started scouring the county including the City of Imperial in attempts to locate Neveah. These searches netted no results, but Deputies did gather more intelligence on her possible whereabouts.
There have been several rumors, theories and ideas that have been forwarded to our office, with every one being meticulously investigated. Again, none of this information provided has resulted in the locating of Neveah.
On the night of May 31, 2024, Neveah was again broadcasted on NCIC to surrounding states to notify them in case she went to one of them and is located there.
Today on June 1, 2024, Neveah’s father has been in contact with her, and she is safe and alive but still refuses to come home or let anyone know where she is located.
Neveah has managed to shut off her location services on her cell phone to not be tracked by her parents. With a runaway juvenile, this does not meet the requirements of being able to ping her cellphone or issue an Amber Alert per Nebraska guidelines for issuing one. Listed below is the criteria set forth in issuing Amber Alerts, copied from the Nebraska State Patrol website.
We are still working on the missing juvenile case and any information is much appreciated. If you or anyone you know has seen or heard from Neveah, please contact our agency at 308-882-4748.
1. The Nebraska Amber Plan requires law enforcement to meet the following criteria when evaluating a child abduction. Authorities must have all parts of the scenario present before an activation can occur. The guidelines are as follows:
a.) The child is the age of 17 or younger.
b.) Police have reason to believe the child is in danger of serious bodily harm or death.
c.) There is sufficient information available concerning the suspected abductor that the public can respond.
d.) The notifying law enforcement agency has participated in AMBER training for purposes of issuing AMBER Alerts.
e.) The plan is not intended for use in runaway or child custody situations.
2. The Amber Plan is activated only when the specific requirements of the plan are met as outlined above; therefore, the Amber Plan is not activated for every child abduction or custody dispute.
3. After receiving a report of a child kidnapping, the local law enforcement agency determines if the child kidnapping meets the requirements of the Amber Plan. If it does, the agency contacts the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) to request activation of the Amber Plan. NSP then verifies the information and activates the Emergency Alert System (EAS) through National Weather Service (NWS) and the information is broadcast over the National Weather Service EAS System.
4. When the information is broadcast over the NWS system, it will immediately be delivered to all radio stations and television stations in Nebraska. Participating stations then re-broadcast the information at regular intervals.
5. If the child is recovered or the status of the case changes within the first 24 hours, the reporting law enforcement agency must notify the Nebraska State Patrol. An AMBER Alert Cancellation will then be broadcast over the EAS system through the NWS. After 24 hours, no formal AMBER Cancellation will be broadcast over the EAS system through the NWS. Instead, the reporting law enforcement agency must notify the Nebraska State Patrol of changes in the case. That information will be posted on the AMBER Alert page of the Nebraska State Patrol web site.
