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The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help locating in a missing 4-year-old girl who is believed to be with her mother.

According to a release, Delisse Lalee Jones, 37, and her daughter Ariana Bemis-Eib were last seen by the girl’s father when Jones picked her up for an overnight visit on May 14. Jones did not bring the child to daycare the next morning as arranged.

The father reported Ariana missing May 15.

“A vehicle associated with Jones was located nearby her last known residence in the Eureka area. Attempts to contact Jones have been unsuccessful,” the sheriff’s office release states. “This case is being investigated as a child custody  concealment case. Jones does not have legal custody of Bemis-Eib and is in violation of a custody order.”


Read the HCSO release below:

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help to locate a missing 4-year-old girl.

Ariana Bemis-Eib, 4, of Orick, was reported missing by her father on May 15, 2019, at about 8:30 p.m. after she failed to return from a scheduled visitation with her mother.

According to her father, on May 14 at about 8 p.m. Bemis-Eib went on an overnight custody visitation with her mother, 37-year-old Delisse Lalee Jones. Jones failed to bring Bemis-Eib to daycare the following morning, as previously agreed upon as terms of the visitation.

A vehicle associated with Jones was located nearby her last known residence in the Eureka area. Attempts to contact Jones have been unsuccessful.

This case is being investigated as a child custody concealment case. Jones does not have legal custody of Bemis-Eib and is in violation of a custody order.

Ariana Bemis-Eib is described as a white female child, approximately 3 feet 6 inches tall, 50 pounds, with blue eyes and dirty blonde hair.


Delisse Lalee Jones is described as a white female adult, approximately 5 feet 11 inches tall, 215 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair.

Jones is believed to be associated with a 1997 Green Chevy pick up truck, with a California license plate of 7Z43180.

Anyone who sees Bemis-Eib or Jones should contact 9-1-1. Anyone with information for the Sheriff’s Office regarding the two’s possible whereabouts should call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251.