Missing and Murdered Children

Amber Alert Issued for: California – Orange County

Victim 1: Celeste Ortiz

Celeste is a 6-year-old Hispanic female.

Victim 2: Cassandra Ortiz

Cassandra is a 7-year-old Hispanic female.

Victim 3: Jacqueline Martinez

Jacqueline is a 24-year-old Hispanic female with short red hair. She is 5’4″ tall and weighs 120lbs. When last seen she was wearing a dark t-shirt and blue jeans. She will most likely appear to have been recently physically assaulted.

Suspect: Jose Solano Ortiz

Jose Ortiz is a 26-year-old Hispanic male with brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5’8″ tall and weighs 160lbs. When last seen Jose was wearing a black t-shirt and khaki shorts. His hair is cut in a spiked style.
He has a history of violence.

Suspect Vehicle

Gray 2005 GMC Full Size Pickup Truck with California License 7V93382

Circumstances:

A California Amber Alert for the Orange County area was activated this afternoon after police were called by neighbors who witnessed a woman and her children being abducted by her husband. According to witnesses, 24-year-old Jacqueline Martinez was beaten and forced into her husband’s truck along with their two young daughters. The woman was screaming as she was dragged towards the vehicle. Her husband, 26-year-old Jose Solano Ortiz, has a long history of violence according to police. It is not clear if the children were also beaten by Ortiz.

Police are concerned for the safety and welfare of the woman and children. Authorities are trying to contact his family members to find out where he may have taken his family. Anyone with information about the family’s whereabouts was asked to call the watch commander at (714) 898-3315, ext. 421; tips may be made anonymously.

A California Amber Alert has been issued for 2-year-old Andrew Bailey. According to an article published on News10.net, authorities were called to the Bailey home in Shingle Springs early Saturday morning responding to a domestic violence complaint. When they arrived they found Andrew’s mother badly beaten. She was transported to the hospital with unspecified injuries.

The alleged perpetrator of the beating is 50-year-old Charles Bailey. He is the boyfriend of Andrew’s mother and is the boy’s biological father.

The problem now is finding Andrew. When authorities arrived and found Andrew’s mother, they also found that Charles Bailey had fled with the child. An Amber Alert was issued and Charles Bailey was located and arrested in Sonora nearly four hours after the search began. Andrew was not with his father and apparently the father is not cooperating with authorities as to Andrew’s whereabouts.¹

The search continues for Andrew:

By Saturday afternoon, emergency rescue teams begun searching for Andrew along the nearly 50-mile stretch between Shingle Springs and Sonora.

Golmitz said about 70 people in small teams were searching the Shingle Springs areas near South Shingle, Latrobe South and Cochrane Ranch Road.
Dogs and helicopter units were also aiding in the search from Shingle Springs to the county line.

Amador, Calavaras and Tuolumne county teams were also assisting by searching their respective jurisdictions, Golmitz said.²

Andrew Bailey described as 3 feet tall, weighing 35 pounds with short dark hair. He may be wearing red pajama bottoms and a blue stripped pajama top.

Anybody with information of the whereabouts of Andrew should call the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office at 530-621-6600.