The authorities of New York who investigate the kidnapping of the missing of Long Island Teen Emarae Gervasi have made a stunning 12th arrest in the case.
Bay Shore -man Daniel Soto, 36, was arrested on Friday morning and accused of endangering the well -being of a child and a separate indictment.
The arrest, reported for the first time by the New York Post, comes weeks after Gervasi, 14, was found on board in a yacht in the White Cap Marina by her father Frank in a daring salvation last month.
Gervasi disappeared from her house in Patchogue, Long Island, on December 9, when she was seen in a car on her block.
She was reportedly kidnapped by the 64-year-old Francis Buckheit, with ten others accused of a range of crimes in connection with the kidnapping of the teenager.
Her father said he was tormented about her disappearance and could not leave it to the police and started investigating his own leads in the hope of finding his missing daughter.
Frank Gervasi said he received a tip that led him to his daughter on board a 56-foot yacht in the marina on January 3 and said he broke the door off the boat to find her in without shoes or a mobile phone.
After his moving 26-day search for his daughter, Frank told Dailymail.com that finding his daughter 'pure delighting' was to fear that she had been killed.
The authorities of New York who investigate the kidnapping of the missing Long Island Teen Emmarae Gervasi (photo) have made a stunning twelfth arrest in the case
Emmarae's father Frank Gervasi (together with her mother Melissa Dervay) saved his daughter 26 days after a boat after she had disappeared after receiving an anonymous tip
Soto's arrest comes after the police have accused eleven others of various crimes, including helping the kidnapping of the teenager or attacking her while she was in captivity.
Buckheit, the owner of the boat, was accused of kidnapping, among other things, the same accusations that Alton Harrell, 35, was confronted with.
Bunice Knight, 47, was arrested shortly after Buckheit and accused of children's threat, three counts of the sale of a regulated substance and another crime.
Daniel Burke, 63, and Robert Eccleston, 61, were also accused of kidnapping, children's threat and a separate allegation shortly after civil servants said the investigation remains open.
And this week, two women, Jacquelyn Comiskey, 52, and Elizabeth Hunter, 34, were also accused of children's threat.
Kevin McDonald, 20, was also charged in connection with her abduction, according to the police.
Burkcheit did not argue, and his lawyer Danielle Papa said in court that he was “emotional and upset” because of his arrest, and “maintains his innocence.”
“There is much more about this story than what is currently being presented in the articles, which we are working on research,” Daddy added to an appearance at Suffolk County District Court.
Depicted: alleged abductor Francis Buckhiet, who denied the allegations against him
A total of 12 people have now been accused of a range of crimes with regard to the kidnapping of the 14-year-old
Frank Gervasi told DailyMail.com that he feared that his daughter might have been killed and described the moment to find her alive as 'pure excitement'
Frank Gervasi said he feared that his daughter was killed after she missed for almost a month, and said that when he got a tip about her place of residence, her was told: “My daughter was with very dangerous men.”
“The information I received was very specific and very accurate,” Gervasi told the DailyMail.com.
The day of the salvation was taken like a scene from the action film by Liam Neeson, while Frank reportedly kicked a door off the boat to find his affected daughter.
He remembered that his daughter asked her: 'Daddy, how did you find me? How did you know I was here? '
Although there is much unknown about what exactly happened when Gervasi was reunited with his daughter, he shared that “there were rumors that they would quickly move the boat south.”
“They could easily have left the state, and nobody could trace him through the Waterweg,” he said.
Frank Gervasi, the father of Emmarae, took matters into her own hands to find her and said he had kicked her a yacht after a 'specific and accurate' anonymous tip
Shown: the ship Buckheit would be imprisoned Emmarae
An emotional gervasi told the Dailymail.com that the moment he saved her 'pure delight … joy, happiness' was after 26 painful days of hell.
“We had five minutes of clarity before the police appeared. I was able to hug and kiss her and to talk to her, and that is almost how it went. '
Emmarae's mother Melissa Dervay said that a weight was 'lifted' when the intense search ended.
“The moment I heard her voice and knew it was good, I felt a weight of my body lifted,” Dervay told Greater Long Island.
'I have been so tense for the past four weeks and I am fighting quietly on a fight. Now I am delighted. I feel light and I just want to scream: 'She's okay. She was found. '' '
