Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Police fearful for missing college student

Investigators in Southern California say a missing college student was last seen leaving for a party last month at the house of a registered sex offender. Donna Haghighat Jou, 19, of Rancho Santa Margarita disappeared on June 23.
|
|
 
  
Published: July 6, 2007 at 5:15 PM

RIVERSIDE, Calif., July 6 (UPI) -- Investigators in Southern California say a missing college student was last seen leaving for a party last month at the house of a registered sex offender.

Donna Haghighat Jou, 19, of Rancho Santa Margarita disappeared on June 23. Jou, who lives with her mother, left with a man identified as John Steven Burgess of Los Angeles, the Orange County Register reported.

Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office say that Burgess calls himself Sinjin Stevens and has a pickup truck with the vanity license plate Sinjin1. They believe that he used fake pictures to convince her to come to a party.

A friend said that she received a cell phone call from Jou a few hours after she was last seen. She told the friend she had locked herself in the bathroom because "the guy she was with was freaking her out."

"As more time goes on, the likelihood that she has become a victim of foul play certainly increases," said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.

Topics: Jim Amormino
© 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 29
Members of the Army's Old Guard place flags at Arlington National Ceremtery
View Caption
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
fark
Crimefighter who rides a chopper. In Afghanistan. And is a female. Don't mess with her
Daily Show writer partners with Slate to crowdsource ideas for amending and rewriting the Constitution....
Canada's national archives is being dismantled and scattered, who needs to remember the history...
Man disappears in Niagara Falls whirlpool; presumed to be spinning in his grave
Woman swallows toothbrush while brushing her teeth. Surgeons remove it before Oral B becomes Anal...
MSNBC Host Chris Hayes: I'm 'Uncomfortable' calling fallen military 'Heroes'