AJA DANIELLE JOHNSON - 7 yo (2010) - Geronimo/Davenport OK

GERONIMO — Inside the command post at Geronimo’s town hall, red-eyed
investigators sift through documents, exchange theories and field every
tip that might lead to finding 7-year-old Aja Johnson. They have done so continuously since Johnson’s disappearance on Jan. 24, the day Aja’s mother, Tonya LeAnn Hobbs, was found beaten to death inside a recreational vehicle in Geronimo. The RV was owned by Tonya’s estranged husband, Lester William Hobbs – the man now charged in Comanche County with her killing and Aja’s abduction.Investigators from multiple agencies have followed more than 336 leads
in a manhunt that has stretched across the nation. Yet there have been
no confirmed sightings of Aja, Hobbs or the white 1992 Toyota Paseo that likely carried them away from the scene of her mother’s slaying."We will continue to look until that little girl is found,” said Richard Goss, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
agent in charge. "We have essentially become Aja’s proxy family. The
child is real. She’s a precious, 7-year-old girl with her whole life in
front of her.”J.J. Johnson, Aja’s father, said his daughter’s disappearance is a parent’s worst nightmare. "I would like to tell her that Daddy loves her, and to come home,” said Johnson, who lives in Oklahoma City and is Aja’s custodial parent. "This may be old news to some people, but this news is front page every day for me.”Goss, a law enforcement veteran of 34 years, rubs his tired eyes. He
and other investigative team members have routinely logged 16- and
18-hour days in an effort to bring Aja home safely. They worked through
the Jan. 28 ice storm, which knocked out electricity at the home of
every team member.They used a search warrant to confiscate the recreational vehicle,
Comanche County Sheriff Kenny Stradley said. Crime scene investigators
are now combing the vehicle for clues."If you can think of it, we’ve done it,” Goss said. "We’re following
every lead, even the weak ones, because any one of them could turn out
to be legit.”Last week investigators mobilized within minutes of receiving a tip that Hobbs had been spotted at a Shawnee restaurant, Stradley said. The alleged sighting ended with hopes yet again dashed."I’ve had my share of manhunts over the years,” Goss said. "But I have
never experienced one in which someone has been able to avoid detection
with the amount of intensity we have applied to this investigation."I still hold the firm belief that the car is the key. If we find the car, we’ll find them.”Alleged sightings have poured in from throughout Oklahoma, Texas, California, Oregon, Florida and Indiana, Goss said. Several calls were generated by "America’s Most Wanted”,
which featured the case for a second time Saturday night during a
15-minute segment. The hot line has even received calls from psychics."We’re looking at everything,” Stradley said. "We just keep asking for the public’s help.”Large strips of butcher paper hang on the walls inside the command
post, listing the names of everyone pertinent to the investigation and
a timeline of events. Telephones ring around the clock, and hope ebbs
and flows with each new lead.No one has to be reminded that Hobbs had as much as a 29-hour jump on
law enforcement. "Really, it boils down to two things,” Goss said.
"Hobbs is either receiving aid from a person or persons we’ve not yet
identified, or he’s isolated himself somewhere with the automobile.”The investigator in him refuses to rest."And let me say this: If anyone is providing aid or assistance to
Hobbs, it’s not worth it,” Goss said. "This will end some day, and when
it does we’ll find out.”

Geronimo - A reward for information on the whereabouts of a
seven-year-old girl thought to have been abducted by a man wanted for
murdering the girl's mother has been increased.

A 20-thousand dollar reward is now being offered for information on Aja
Johnson's whereabouts. She hasn't been seen since January 24th, when
her mother, Tonya Hobbs, was found beaten to death inside an RV near
Geronimo in southwestern Oklahoma.

Law enforcement in Oklahoma, Texas, California, Oregon and points in
between have been looking for 46-year-old Lester Hobbs, who is charged
with Tonya Hobbs' murder.

Authorities believe Lester Hobbs has a home in Lincoln County and may have relatives in Texas, California and Oregon.

Hobbs is a white male, about 5'9" and 185 pounds with brown hair and
hazel eyes. He no longer has a goatee as seen in his photo, but he
does have a mustache. He has several tattoos all over his upper body.

He was last seen driving a white, two-door 1992 Toyota Paseo with
Oklahoma tag 577-BPW. The vehicle has no hubcaps and its back window
was covered with plastic.

Aja is a white female, about four feet tall and 65 pounds with a very
thin build. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Authorities say the
child has a health condition which requires daily medication.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Aja Johnson, Lester Hobbs or the vehicle is asked to immediately call 911.

It was announced that the U.S. Marshal’s Service added
its Sex Offender Investigation Unit to the search for little Aja
Johnson. This decision was made after they received information leading
them to believe Hobbs could be sexually abusing Aja. While this is a
horrific thing to imagine, it also leaves hope that little Aja COULD be
held some where and not yet murdered.

On the heels of this decision,
the U.S. Marshal’s office moved it’s $1.3 million command center to
Geronimo, Oklahoma, the last place Aja is known to have been before the
murder of her mother, Tonya, and the disappearance of Lester Hobbs and
Aja. This unit is capable of linking up real-time with multiple sources
of information so that investigators assigned to this case can receive
updated information as it occurs.
There has been no update since this announcement.

-- The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is shutting down a mobile command center used
to support the search for a missing 7-year-old girl.
The command center being closed Tuesday had
been posted at Geronimo City Hall in western Oklahoma to help search
for 7-year-old Aja Johnson and her suspected kidnapper, Lester Hobbs.
However, as long as the two people remain
missing and leads continue to come in, the investigation will continue,
Jessica Brown, OSBI spokeswoman, said.
"Absolutely," Brown said. "Were still
getting leads not as many as in the beginning, but thats typical. As
long as we get leads were going to keep it going. Were not going to
stop."
Hobbs, 46, is wanted in the beating death
of his estranged wife, Tonya, 37. He was charged Jan. 26 in Comanche
County District Court with first-degree murder and kidnapping of Aja
Johnson, Tonya Hobbs' daughter.
Law enforcement authorities have been
seeking Hobbs, the girl and the 1992 Toyota Paseo he is believed to be
driving since the Jan. 24 discovery of his estranged wifes body inside
an RV in Geronimo. After executing a warrant earlier in February,
investigators took the RV into custody for forensic testing.
An Amber Alert continues for the 7-year-old
girl. She suffers from bipolar disorder, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder and sleeping issues that require medication the
last known time she had her medication was Jan. 22.
The closure of the command post means investigation operations
return to the OSBI and U.S. Marshals Lawton offices.
"My guys are so darned tired theyve been
working 18 hour days with little or no sleep since this began," Brown
said. "But we arent going to stop until we know what happened to that
little girl."

BLANCHARD — Aja Johnson
was beaten and bruised by her suspected abductor in August, according
to a family friend who had sheltered the 7-year-old child and her
mother at that time. Lester William Hobbs, 46, the man wanted in connection with Aja’s apparent kidnapping and the slaying of his estranged wife, Tonya LeAnn Hobbs, "just went off” on the girl, bruising her "from her butt to the bottom of her knees,” said Sissy Miller, 26, of Blanchard."That poor child was bruised so badly she couldn’t even sit,” Miller said. "We took pictures and turned them into DHS.
We told school officials, and they reported it, too, but we were just
told there was nothing that could be done. Now look what’s happened.”Aja has been missing since Jan. 24, when relatives found her mother
beaten to death inside Lester Hobbs’ recreational vehicle that was
parked outside his sister’s trailer home in Geronimo. Tonya Hobbs, 37, died from blunt force trauma to the body, according to the state medical examiner.Since then there have been no confirmed sightings of Aja, Lester Hobbs or Tonya Hobbs’ white 1992 Toyota Paseo (Oklahoma tag 577-BPW), which investigators think might be key to solving the case. The U.S. Marshal’s office and the FBI have joined the hunt."I can’t even sleep at night,” said Miller, who is taking care of Tonya
and Lester Hobbs’ 13-year-old daughter. "I just keep waiting to hear
that little knock at the front door, hoping it will be Aja. I look all
the time. Whenever I’m driving I’m constantly looking, thinking I might
see her walking down the street.”Miller said on a recent cold day, Aja’s older sister said to her, "‘I
hope Aja has her coat. It’s really cold today.’ I just broke down and
started crying.”Roy Anderson,
Miller’s father and next door neighbor, is also grieving. He had known
Tonya Hobbs for 15 years and has raised her oldest child, a 15-year-old
boy, since he was a baby.Anderson said he worried about Tonya Hobbs’ relationship with Lester Hobbs."I tolerated him,” Anderson said. "Then I saw those bruises on that
little girl, and that was it for me. I don’t care who you are, you just
don’t hurt a child.”Department of Human Services spokeswoman Beth Scott said Friday she could "neither confirm nor deny” the reports of Aja’s bruising. She cited state law and the agency’s requirement to protect victim confidentiality.J.J. Johnson,
Aja’s father who gained custody of her in November, continues to have
sleepless nights. Through it all, he said he remains positive."I just miss her so bad,” said Johnson, 60, of Oklahoma City. "Every time the phone rings I think, ‘This could be it. This could be the one.’"I think about the day she comes home all the time. I just picture her
walking through that front door with a big smile and hugging her daddy.”Waiting for her

Aja’s bedroom remains as it was the day she left with her mother, supposedly for an overnight birthday party. Barbie dolls
she played with in the bathtub rest atop a toy chest, her favorite
miniature horse sits atop a dresser and a stuffed wiener dog lays on
her tiny bed with a inscription stitched on its side: "I love you this
much.”A Disney castle toy stove sits against the wall."This is where she’d turn on the stove and say, ‘Daddy, I’m cooking
breakfast,’” Johnson said. "She’s something else. ... I know wherever
she’s at, she’s missing her daddy and wants to come home.”Tonya Hobbs was supposed to have supervised visits only, but Johnson
allowed her to take Aja to the party. He never imagined she would
instead take Aja and her sister to see Lester Hobbs, who had reportedly
threatened to harm Tonya and the girls only months earlier.In August, Tonya Hobbs filed a request for a protective order in Lincoln County. She wrote, "My husband has threatened to hit my daughters in the head
with a hammer and kill them. He also threatened to kill me if I left
him.” The court dismissed the request when neither Tonya nor Lester Hobbs appeared for the hearing.By January, Lester Hobbs’ freedom appeared to be in jeopardy. He was
ordered to appear in Lincoln County District Court on Jan. 25 on a DUI
charge, and his criminal past seemed to be catching up with him. In
2001, state Corrections Department records show, he was convicted of
assault with a deadly weapon in Cleveland County."Lester wanted to see those kids one last time,” said Johnson, trying
to piece together the tragedy. "For whatever reason, she trusted him,
and it cost her her life.”On the night before the discovery of Tonya Hobbs’ body, she and Lester
Hobbs were seen arguing by the older daughter, Miller said."(She) told me Lester was yelling at Tonya,” Miller said. "He had found
the numbers of some guys in her cell phone, and became angry. He even
called a few of them, and one turned out to be a cousin."She misses Aja a lot,” Miller said of the older daughter. "I just tell her, ‘Pray.’ I truly believe Aja is still alive.”

LAWTON, Okla. --
Agents with the Oklahoma State Bureau of
Investigation painted a picture of a kidnapping suspect as somebody who
can subsist on little, somebody likely moving from place to place at
night.Lester Hobbs is wanted in connection with the death of his
wife, Tonya Hobbs, and the kidnapping of her daughter, Aja Johnson. The
7-year-old has not been seen for 33 days.During a Thursday news
conference, OSBI agent in charge Richard Goss said investigators have
learned a lot about Hobbs, noting his penchant for cruising the
Internet for lonely women, hustling games of pool at local bars and
dyeing his hair.Hobbs is a self-taught auto mechanic by trade
and often works in small garages. He can live on as little as $20 here
and there, Goss said.Hobbs was last seen in a white Toyota
Paseo. Goss said that while there are leads coming in all the time,
none of them have pinpointed the location of the car, of Hobbs or of
Aja Johnson.Goss said the telltale giveaway of Hobbs' appearance
are two tattooes -- the word 'ROSE' on his right hand the word 'LOVE'
on his left. His nose is also crooked from previous breaks.The
OSBI said Hobbs has no friends and very few acquaintances. He has
always played the victim, Goss said, and was described by others as a
cowardly abuser, exemplified by his history of assaulting only women
and children.Investigators said Hobbs used a hammer to kill his wife,
possibly with Aja Johnson in the room.Agents
said the manhunt for Hobbs and the search for Johnson are still
intense. Goss urged Hobbs to drop the girl off at a Target or Wal-Mart
with a note on her shirt that reads, "Aja Johnson / Amber Alert."

HOUSTON - An Oklahoma man accused of killing his wife and kidnapping her daughter last month may be in the Corpus Christi area. An
Amber Alert for Aja Johnson was issued on Jan. 24 after authorities
discovered her the body of her mother, Tonya Hobbs, at a Geronimo motor
home belonging to her husband, Lester Hobbs. She had been beaten to death with a
hammer. Relatives last saw Lester Hobbs and Johnson the day
before the murder, but police think the duo may be in Corpus Christi.Johnson is not Hobbs' biological daughter. An autopsy determined Tonya Hobbs suffered blunt force trauma. Lester Hobbs, 46, is wanted on murder and kidnapping charges.

LAWTON — Lester William Hobbs, the suspected abductor of 7-year-old Aja Johnson, is a man who can survive in the shadows of society, investigators said during a Thursday news conference.
Investigators said they have uncovered a portrait of a drifter who can
hustle money in pool halls, work on cars and sustain himself on pocket
change. Now, more than a month after Aja’s disappearance, they are
again asking for the public’s help.Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Agent in Charge Richard Goss had a message for Hobbs, who is charged with Aja’s kidnapping and the Jan. 24 killing of his estranged wife and Aja’s mother, Tonya LeAnn Hobbs."Release Aja now,” Goss read from a statement. "Drop her off at a Target, a Walmart, a K-Mart
— any busy store where she will be safe. Attach a note to her clothing
simply stating: ‘Call police — Amber Alert — Aja Johnson.’”Then Goss added, "For once in your life, do the right thing.”State and federal investigators said they have immersed themselves in
Hobbs’ world, starting with the Geronimo homicide scene inside his
recreational vehicle. Goss revealed that investigators think Tonya was beaten to death with a
hammer and that Aja likely witnessed the killing "lying by her mother’s
side on a sofa.” The U.S. Marshals Service and FBI have joined the manhunt in a case that reached the national stage with a segment on "America’s Most Wanted.”Goss said his team has not received any concrete leads on Aja, Lester Hobbs or Tonya Hobbs’ 1992 Toyota Paseo, which they think Lester Hobbs was driving when he left. "Hobbs can survive on very little money — 20 bucks here, 20 bucks
there,” Goss said. "In fact, his needs seem to be met with only
cigarettes, liquor, and very little food. He is a self-taught
automobile mechanic and will offer to do minor repairs for little
money. "He likes to cruise the Internet searching for lonely women. If Hobbs
no longer has a vehicle, he will travel across the country by bus, or
will hitchhike.”U.S. Deputy Marshal A.D. Templeton likened Hobbs to a coyote."A coyote will run quickly across the road, continue on for another 20
yards into a field, and then lay down until the danger passes,”
Templeton said. "Lester Hobbs is really no different. At first he
quickly made his escape in the middle of the night, and now he’s laying
low. He’s probably traveling by night like a scavenger, moving from
point to point."I’ve hunted for individuals from one end of this country to the other.
Sometimes, we find people in a few days. Sometimes, it takes 15 years.
But we always find those people.”Goss said Lester Hobbs’ relatives described him as a "cowardly abuser
who preys on women and children.” He said Hobbs appears to have no
friends, but he suspects someone is harboring him."To that person or persons, I implore you to do the right thing and do
it now before it’s too late. Hobbs is only using you,” Goss said. "Call
your nearest law enforcement agency immediately. If you do not, the
consequences could be severe.”Investigators said Hobbs likes to change his appearance with the use of
hair dyes and hair growth, but there are two physical characteristics
he can’t easily hide: tattoos and a broken nose. Hobbs has the word "ROSE” tattooed across the fingers of his right hand
and "LOVE” tattooed across the fingers of his left hand.

I can't believe they haven't found this loser yet. Hope when they do, they charge every person that's helping him hide out. I don't even want to think what has happened to Aja, it just breaks my heart.

Oh no.

It's on live right now. They have located the car, it is in a heavily wooded area near Norman, OK. The newscasters are saying from what they have seen it does not appear to look good for Aja. They are saying there appear to be two bodies in the car.

Admin wrote:Oh no.

It's on live right now. They have located the car, it is in a heavily wooded area near Norman, OK. The newscasters are saying from what they have seen it does not appear to look good for Aja. They are saying there appear to be two bodies in the car.

Thanks Admin

Admin wrote:Oh no.

It's on live right now. They have located the car, it is in a heavily wooded area near Norman, OK. The newscasters are saying from what they have seen it does not appear to look good for Aja. They are saying there appear to be two bodies in the car.

Thank you for the update.