Published: Thursday, December 02, 2010, 7:00 PM
Mobile police were receiving numerous calls Thursday as they kept up their search for two young siblings last seen in July.?
"The detectives are sorting through that information to see if any of it is helpful or not," said Officer Christopher Levy, a police spokesman.
The children’s stepmother remained jailed Thursday in Louisville, Ky., awaiting extradition on two counts of willful child abuse. Heather Leavell-Keaton, 22, was arrested in Louisville on Wednesday, and her bail was set at $50,000.
Mobile police are looking for Natalie Alexis Deblase, 5, and Jonathan Chase Deblase, 3.?
Their mother, who lives in Mobile, has met with detectives, Levy said. "She said she hasn’t seen them in over a year," Levy said.?
"The last place they were seen was in Mobile," Levy said.?
Police also are searching for John Deblase, 27, the children’s father.?
"Our understanding is that he lives in Kentucky and we have not located him. We would like to," Levy said.?
Concern for their welfare accelerated when a man believed to be a relative of Leavell-Keaton walked in to a police department in Kentucky and told officials that the children were dead.?
John Deblase, Leavell-Keaton and the two children were living at Peach Place Extended Inn on Jeff Hamilton Road in west Mobile until they moved out in late July, police have said.
The family left a forwarding address in Rome, Ga., officials said.?
Louisville officials said they were unsure when Leavell-Keaton would be transferred to Mobile. She has a court appearance in Louisville scheduled for 9 a.m. Dec. 10.?
Officer Carey Klain, a spokeswoman with the Louisville Metro Police Department, said that Leavell-Keaton made a report on Nov. 18 "reporting increasing violence in the home in mid-November, but there were no specifics."?
"We didn’t make an arrest because she didn’t give any specifics and we didn’t locate any injuries on her," said Alicia Smiley, another Louisville police spokeswoman.?
That report was not related to Leavell-Keaton’s arrest on Wednesday, Klain said.?
Klain said that Louisville detectives are not investigating the children’s disappearance.
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