A second individual is dealing with costs over the disappearance of Mint Butterfield, the teenager youngster of two tech founders.
Butterfield, 16, went lacking for six days earlier than being discovered alive behind a white van in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district on Saturday.
Butterfield is the one youngster of Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, who cofounded Flickr collectively in 2004. Stewart Butterfield additionally cofounded Slack and is price about $1.6 billion, based on Forbes.
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The van belonged to Christopher “Kio” Dizefalo, 26, a San Francisco parking valet described as an “adult friend” of Butterfield’s in a press launch from the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.
But later, when Dizefalo was charged, prosecutors named a second individual, a girl named Sarah Atkins.
Both have been charged with youngster abduction and the lesser rely of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. When Butterfield was lacking, authorities mentioned they believed the teenager left house willingly.
(The cost does not essentially contradict that — it is nonetheless potential to fulfill the definition of abduction if the kid is keen.)
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned Dizefalo was additionally arrested in reference to a cost of illegal sexual activity and held in Marin County Jail.
Dizefalo and Butterfield “had some sort of a quasi-dating relationship,” the Marin County Sheriff’s Office advised The New York Post.
Adam Schermerhorn, a consultant for the sheriff’s workplace, advised The San Francisco Standard that Atkins was in her late 20s. There’s little different info obtainable about her alleged involvement or relationship with Butterfield.
Dizefalo was taken into custody shortly after Butterfield was found by police, and his bail was set at $50,000.
Schermerhorn advised the Standard that Atkins wasn’t there when Butterfield and Dizefalo have been discovered.
At the listening to, Dizefalo’s lawyer requested to defer his arraignment to Friday. The choose agreed and issued a protecting order that bars Dizefalo from contacting Butterfield or coming inside 100 yards of them or their house.
Dizefalo, who had a tattoo of a scythe on his face and appeared in courtroom in a yellow jumpsuit over a pink long-sleeve shirt, mentioned he understood the order.
Atkins, in contrast to Dizefalo, just isn’t in custody.
At a listening to Wednesday, a prosecutor advised Judge Kelly Simmons that there was a warrant for Atkins’ arrest.
Stewart Butterfield, Mint’s father, attended the listening to remotely through Zoom, however did not communicate.
Butterfield’s dad and mom thanked “family, friends, volunteers and strangers who called in tips and made this recovery possible” in a joint assertion obtained by the Standard.
“We especially want to thank the seasoned law enforcement officers who understand the very real threat of predators who use the allure of drugs to groom teenagers,” they added.