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President Trump signed the H.R.5075 - Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 into law on Monday, 31 Dec 2018. This could be another important step in the fight against human trafficking, MS-13, and ritualistic killing. Ditto your local neighborhood pervert. Under this law, alerts can be issued for missing adults aged 18-64 years (too old for Amber Alerts and too young for Silver Alerts). Here's background and history on the legislation:
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Ashanti Alert Wiki: All You Need to Know about the Alert System to Find Missing Adults
By: Caroline John
Dec 27, 2018 at 2:10 pm
A new legislation could help find missing adults by sending an alert notification. The Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 is aimed to set up a program to get alerts for adults who are missing, similar to Amber Alerts and Silver Alerts. The bill is named after Ashanti Billie who went missing in 2017 and was found dead weeks later. The Ashanti Alert bill has been passed by the U.S. Senate in December 2018 and may go into effect soon.
What Is the Ashanti Alert?
The Ashanti Alert aims to notify the public about a missing adult aged 18 to 65 years. The Ashanti Alert Communications Network is similar to the Amber Alert system for missing children.
Virginia state already passed the bill into a law as the Virginia Critically Missing Adult Alert Program. The alert went into effect on July 1, 2018. It will officially be known as the Ashanti Alert in the state and likely nationwide now that the Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 has passed in the U.S. Senate.
What Sets off the Ashanti Alert?
This system is meant for the missing adults who are too old for an Amber Alert and don’t meet the criteria for a Silver Alert. The Ashanti Alert applies to adults between roughly the ages of 18 to 65 years.
According to the bill passed in Virginia, a Critically Missing Adult “means an adult (i) whose whereabouts are unknown, (ii) who is believed to have been abducted, and (iii) whose disappearance poses a credible threat as determined by a law-enforcement agency to the health and safety of the adult and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate by the Virginia State Police.”
The Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 that aims to make this system nationwide defines a missing adult as one who “(A) is older than the age for which an alert may be issued through the AMBER Alert communications network in the State or territory of an Indian Tribe in which the individual is identified as a missing individual; “(B) is identified by a law enforcement agency as a missing individual; and “(C) meets the requirements to be designated as a missing adult, as determined by the State in which, or the Indian Tribe in the territory of which, the individual is identified as a missing individual.”
History of Ashanti Alert
Ashanti Billie’s Disappearance and Murder
The Ashanti Alert is named after 19-year-old Ashanti Billie from Prince George’s County in Maryland. After graduating high school in Maryland, she went to Virginia Beach to study culinary arts. She worked at a Blimpie Sub Shop at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.
Billie disappeared from the military base in Hampton Roads, Virginia in September 2017. She was last seen on September 18, driving into the base. However, she didn’t show up at her workplace or for her classes.
Friends and family, with the help of volunteers, scoured for evidence nearby. They found hair braids and a piece of clothing that was turned over to the authorities. The FBI also found her cellphone in a trash bin and her car was abandoned.
After two weeks of searching for Ashanti Billie, her body was found behind a church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In November 2017, a then-45-year-old Eric Brian Brown was arrested and charged with the abduction and death of Billie. Brown, a 21-year Navy veteran, grew up in Charlotte, not far from where Billie’s remains were found. He used to attend Bible classes as a child at the same church.
He was reportedly homeless and lived in buildings in and around naval bases. A retired petty officer, he worked as an information systems technician in the Navy and had access to the base. At the time of Billie’s abduction, he was a day laborer who helped build the sandwich shop she worked at.
Billie’s co-worker recalled that Brown had made a crude sexual comment about Billie. Employees said he was always lurking around the shop, until her disappearance.
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