46 BIDS TO FIND DIRTY LAUNDRIE
Cops frequent visitors to Fla. house
Florida cops have been called to Brian Laundrie’s parents’ home dozens of times in recent weeks — including twice the day before his slain girlfriend, Gabby Petito, was reported missing, records show.
North Port police responded to Chris and Roberta Laundrie’s home 46 times since Sept. 10.
Five calls made on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 suggest turbulence at the house even before Petito’s disappearance made national headlines and made the Laundries a target.
North Port cops first responded to the home shortly before 4 p.m. on Sept. 10 on a “public service” call, according to the records. Police returned around 6:30 p.m., with both calls marked as “problem settled.”
According to Fox News, the second Sept. 10 call involved Petito’s father, Joe Petito.
Joe Petito did not physically go to the Laundrie home, but “expressed concern” over his daughter, the outlet reported Thursday.
Police officers returned to the house shortly after 1 and 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 for follow-up calls, and an “agency assist” call shortly before 8:30 p.m., with a report submitted after the day’s third visit, the records show.
The remaining reports are either checks on the property or minor disruptions at the home — save for an unspecified “suspicious incident” on Sept. 24 and a “disturbance” at the home on Sept. 27.
Reality-TV star Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman knocked on the Laundries’ door on Sept. 27 but it’s not clear if that was the incident referred to in the report.
FBI agents returned to the house on Thursday to collect “personal items” to “assist canines” in the massive manhunt for 23-year-old fugitive Brian, Laundrie family lawyer Steven Bertolino said.
“There is nothing more to this,” Bertolino said.
As the search for Laundrie continues, his family’s actions following his return to Florida continue to generate scrutiny.
In late August, his mother reportedly canceled camping reservations for two people — before making new reservations for three people.
On Aug. 24, Roberta Laundrie made reservations for two people at the Fort De Soto Park Campground in St. Petersburg, Fla., between Sept. 1 and 3. But she then changed them on Aug. 31 to be for three people on the weekend of Sept. 6-8, according to documents obtained by Fox News.
Laundrie returned to his parents’ home on Sept. 1 in the 2012 Ford Transit van in which he and Petito had been traveling.
The Laundries, who listed their Dodge pickup truck on the reservation form, checked in at the site on Sept. 6 and checked out two days later, the network reported, citing other documents it has obtained.
A person who used to work at Civic Plus, a software company that manages the Fort De Soto campground’s reservation system, told Fox News on condition of anonymity that he believed the Laundries may have known their son was coming home Aug. 31 and made the changes to their reservations.
Information about the changed reservations has reportedly been turned over to the feds.