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Juliani Cardenas goes missing
Amber Alert: Abducted boy may be headed to Central Valley or San Jose Juliani Cardenas, 4, was abducted Tuesday afternoon allegedly by his mother's ex-boyfriend, Jose Esteban Rodriguez. -
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Police search for Juliani Cardenas
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Witness sees silver Toyota go into canal
Police search canal for signs of Juliania and Rodriguez Authorities begin searching canal Wednesday, Jan. 19 after a witness said he saw a silver Toyota Corolla, matching the description of Rodriguez's car, go into it. -
Day 3 of Amber Alert
Divers find second car, no new leads The third day in the abduction and subsequent disappearance of four-year old, Juliani Cardenas, has not yielded any credible leads or clues to his whereabouts, according to Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office -
Divers find a silver car
Divers suspended their search Thursday after divers pulled out a silver car that morning. The vehicle was a Lexus, not the silver Toyota Corolla linked to the kidnapping. -
Search continues at Delta-Mendota canal
Divers pull four vehicles from the canal Friday, none of which was connected to the boy, authorities said. -
Fifth vehicle removed from canal
Divers recovered a Nissan pickup truck on Saturday, the fifth vehicle found since divers began searching the canal. -
Amber alert downgraded
The Amber Alert for Juliani has also been downgraded from a statewide alert to a local alert. -
Vigil in Patterson
At a vigil Tuesday night in Patterson, Juliani's mother Tabitha Cardenas said she is still holding out hope her son will be found alive -
Divers pull out more cars from canal
The first vehicle taken out of the water Tuesday morning was a Honda reported stolen out of Newman last year. Then a little after noon, a motorcycle was pulled out of the water. About an hour later, another vehicle, a pick-up truck, was lifted out. At 2:30 p.m., an Isuzu SUV was recovered. Later in the day about a mile away where Ward Avenue meets the canal another object was found but darkness and fog prevented divers from retrieving it. -
11th car pulled out of canal
Dive teams with the Stanislaus and Merced County sheriff's departments have been looking in the canal on the western edge of San Joaquin Valley for a week. They have recovered 11 stolen and abandoned vehicles but not the one they're looking for. -
Divers find kidnapped car empty
Authorities say when searchers pulled up the Toyota Corolla from the Delta-Mendota Canal shortly before 6 Friday night it was empty. -
Divers end search at Delta-Mendota Canal
Divers end search at canal, wait for bodies to surface
Crews leave the Delta-Mendota Canal after searching siphons and removing 12th car from canal. Police said they will wait until the bodies of Juliani and Rodriguez surface
