Federal authorities have convened a grand jury to probe the disappearance of a 14-year-old Connecticut girl who was last seen at her cousin’s Bronx apartment in July.
FBI agents have searched the apartment of a 19-year-old East Harlem man who is on probation for crimes related to the girl, Chanztity Vidal, of Greenwich. The G-men have also scoured the apartment of her Bronx cousin, The Post has learned.
“I’m tired of hurting,” said Chanztity’s mom, Lourdes Roman. “All I’m pleading for is to bring my daughter back. I want my daughter back alive and safe.”
On July 8, Chanztity got into a car with a girlfriend who supposedly was taking her to get her nails done in Westchester. Instead, Chanztity went to the Bronx apartment of her cousin Luis Garcia.
Garcia, 24, said yesterday that Chanztity left his Clifford Place apartment later that same day. “I thought she was going back home,” he recalled.
Three weeks ago, FBI agents searched the East 115th Street apartment of Reinaldo Tito Zapata, 19, who was arrested last year, allegedly for being alone with Chanztity without her mom’s permission.
Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli and John Doyle