Missing child Madalina Cojocari's mother asked a distant relative to help with 'smuggling' her and her daughter from their North Carolina home before the 11-year-old disappeared.
The FBI released video showing sixth-grader Madalina Cojocari getting off the school bus on Nov. 21, 2022, at 4:59 p.m. in Cornelius, North Carolina.'s mother contacted a relative to help smuggle both her and her daughter from their Cornelius home before the 11-year-old disappeared, according to a search warrant.
Diana Cojocari, who is facing charges for failing to report her missing daughter in November 2022, and Diana's mother – Madalina's grandmother – contacted the"distant" relative asking if he would help in"smuggling" herself and Madalina from their home, according to phone records obtained by the"She told him she was in a bad relationship with co-defendant Christopher Palmiter and wanted a divorce," the warrant states.
Palmiter is also charged with failure to report a missing child. Both he and Diana were arrested in December.Diana's relative's phone had multiple"calls to phone numbers belonging to unidentified subjects involved in ongoing…drug/narcotics investigations." according to the warrant.," the warrant states.
In December, authorities arrested and charged the 11-year-old's parents, Diana Cojocari, right, and Christopher Palmiter, with failure to report a missing child to law enforcement after Madalina's disappearance from her hometown in Cornelius, which is just north of Charlotte, around Nov. 23, 2022. Madalina's disappearance was not made known to Cornelius police until Dec. 15, when Diana told school officials and local police that she
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