text: The search for a woman reportedly abducted for ransom is focusing on the Mare Island waterfront after search teams spotted a possible object in the water, Vallejo police said Tuesday evening. 
   
   Who is Vallejo kidnapping victim Denise Huskins? Investigators are trying to piece together what happened to 30-year-old Denise Huskins, who authorities say was taken against her will from a home on Mare Island in Vallejo. More 
   
   In a Tuesday night news conference, Vallejo police Lt. Kenny Park said a dive team will focus on an area of Mare Island after spotting an object in the water. The search will continue tonight because of ideal low-tide conditions. 
   
   Search dogs keyed in on a certain area of water, which is where the teams are focusing their efforts, police said. Sonar equipment is also being used in the search. 
   
   More than 100 search and rescue team members are combing the Vallejo waterfront for Denise Huskins, 29, who was reportedly kidnapped from a Mare Island home Monday morning. Authorities initially reported that she was 30 years old. 
   
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   "I know the kind of person she is," said the woman's father, Mike Huskins. "She's fighting. She's fighting." 
   
   Photos: Police search for clues in kidnapping for ransom 
   
   The woman's boyfriend, who's been identified as Aaron Quinn by neighbors and family, reported Huskins missing at about 1:55 p.m. Monday, hours after her disappearance. Police have not confirmed Quinn's relationship with Huskins, however. 
   
   Quinn told officers Huskins was taken from his home in the 500 block of Kirkland Avenue against her will and there was a ransom demand. It is unclear how the ransom demand was communicated. 
   
   Kirkland Avenue remains closed off as authorities continue their investigation. 
   
   Neighbors describe Quinn as a pleasant young man. "He's a nice guy, (I) helped him with a few things," said neighbor Patrick Vandeweg. "I've never had any problems with him as a neighbor. He's very conscientious." 
   
   The victim's father told KCRA he does not know Quinn, but trusts his daughter's judgment of character. 
   
   Quinn is not a suspect or person of interest in the case, according to police. 
   
   "We are treating this matter as a kidnap ransom," said Park during a news conference Tuesday. "We're doing everything we can, but at this point I'm not at liberty to divulge too much information." 
   
   Vallejo police did not give a suspect description during the news conference but said up to 75 people have been dedicated to finding Huskins. 
   
   Late Monday night, investigators found Huskins' boyfriend's vehicle, a 2000 Toyota Camry with license plate number 4GQA436, at an undisclosed location in Vallejo. 
   
   Mike Huskins added that his daughter recently lived in Boston before moving back to California. She is a native of Southern California. 
   
   Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Vallejo confirmed that Denise Huskins is a physical therapist at the hospital. Quinn also works at the hospital. 
   
   Anyone with information about Huskins' whereabouts is urged to call the Vallejo Police Department at 707-648-4524. 
   
   Bay City News contributed to this report. ||||| Police, search crews and the FBI have expanded a search for a 29-year-old physical therapist who was reportedly abducted Monday morning from a Vallejo, California, home and is being held for ransom. Cheryl Hurd reports. (Published Wednesday, March 25, 2015) 
   
   Police, search crews and the FBI have expanded a search for a 29-year-old physical therapist who was reportedly abducted Monday morning from a Vallejo, California, home and is being held for ransom. 
   
   Denise Huskins' boyfriend claims an intruder broke into his Mare Island home early Monday morning and took her by force while demanding a ransom. But for some reason, her boyfriend waited 11 hours to report it to police. Police originally said Huskins was 30. 
   
   On Tuesday evening, over 100 trained search and resue personnel, including a dive team, were searching the waterfront and other areas near the 500 block of Kirkland Avenue on Mare Island, from where Huskins' was reportedly kidnapped. 
   
   Denise Huskins 
   
   Photo credit: Photos courtesy of the Huskins family. 
   
   Police on Tuesday did not elaborate on what the ransom demand might be. “All I can tell you is that there was a ransom demand,” said Lt. Kenny Park of the Vallejo Police Department. 
   
   Huskins who is a physical therapist at Kaiser Vallejo Hospital, was reported missing on Monday about 2 p.m. by her boyfriend. The event, however, took place earlier in the morning and it’s unclear why he waited to alert authorities. Park said police are interviewing him but don’t consider him a “person of interest.” 
   
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   Huskins' car was also reportedly taken from the residence, however the 2000 Toyota Camry was later found at an unnamed location in Vallejo, officers said. 
   
   Huskins also lists on her Facebook page indicates that she's a physical therapist at Southern California Orthopedic Institute. Her Facebook page states she is from Huntington Beach and that she moved to Vallejo in June 2014. 
   
   KNBC reporters went to Huskins' Huntington Beach family home and spoke with her brother Devin Huskins, who said the family is waiting to get more details about what's going on before saying anything to the media. Huskins' dad flew up to Vallejo to talk with investigators, despite their suggestion not to, her brother said. Her father told NBC Bay Area he is praying for his daughter's safe return. 
   
   "She's my little girl — when she was young she would say 'daddy I'll be your best friend,'" Huskins' father said. "I know she didn't just let somebody take her. She would've put up a fight. She ran marathons, she was physically fit." 
   
   Huskins father says the story just doesn't add up. While he's never met his daugter's boyfriend, he says his daughter seemed happy with him. He added that they worked together as physical therapists at Kaiser. 
   
   Devin Huskins said his sister lives right across the street from the Kaiser Permanante Hospital where she is finishing up a physical therapy clinical course. He said her sister and her boyfriend don't live together, Huskins was just hanging out there when the incident took place. 
   
   Neighbors in Vallejo were surprised. 
   
   “We’ve seen her, she's beautiful,” Matea Rolovic said, adding that Huskins lives with two male roommates. 
   
   “It’s bizarre,” added Patrick Van Deweg. “It’s a really bizarre story.” 
   
   "What year are we in, do people still take ransom?" Rolovic asked. 
   
   Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact the Vallejo Police Department at 707-648-4524. 
   
   NBC Bay Area's Bob Redell and Gonzo Rojas contributed to this report. 
   
   Denise Huskins with her mother. 
   
   Photo credit: Photos courtesy of the Huskins family. ||||| At some point during 29-year-old Denise Huskins’ kidnapping Monday in Vallejo, her boyfriend was given a ransom demand, police said a day later. 
   
   The woman, a physical therapist at Kaiser Permanente, was reported missing about 12 hours after her boyfriend told police that he saw her being “forcibly taken against her will” and spirited away, Vallejo police officials said Tuesday. 
   
   The boyfriend told police “a ransom demand was communicated” during her abduction, said Lt. Sid DeJesus. 
   
   On Tuesday, investigators could be seen examining the two-story yellow clapboard residence where Huskins was abducted, combing the shrubbery near the front door. Detectives dusted the door’s white trim for fingerprints. 
   
   At the same time, police said 75 people were combing the rustic area around the neighborhood for Huskins. 
   
   During a news conference Tuesday, officials provided few details to the public on the case, stressing the need to not jeopardize the investigation. 
   
   Denise Huskins Vallejo Police Department Denise Huskins, 29, was allegedly abducted for ransom in Vallejo. Denise Huskins, 29, was allegedly abducted for ransom in Vallejo. (Vallejo Police Department) 
   
   Huskins was reportedly abducted sometime between midnight and 5 a.m. on Monday but her boyfriend didn't tell police until almost 2 p.m. 
   
   Public records list the home where the kidnapping took place as being registered to Aaron Quinn, 30. A car taken from the home and found elsewhere in the city is also under Quinn’s name. Police confirmed the homeowner was Huskins’ boyfriend and that the person who reported the abduction lived there. 
   
   The boyfriend was interviewed by detectives Tuesday morning. He has not been identified as a suspect by police. 
   
   “Hopefully we can extract information from him in a way that we can resolve this in a positive manner,” DeJesus said. 
   
   Quinn and Huskins are physical therapists at Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center, police said. Huskins hails from Huntington Beach but has been living in her own place in Vallejo for about the last year, police said. 
   
   The 500 block of Kirkland Avenue, where Huskins was abducted, was blocked off by police tape and a command vehicle idled nearby Tuesday morning. 
   
   The quiet development is situated on Mare Island, home of a sprawling decommissioned naval shipyard. Searchers in tan uniforms, some with dogs, could be seen combing nearby streets that abut extensive fenced off open space, some of it marshland. 
   
   Neighbors had little information but said Huskins’ disappearance was unsettling. Yards Eslami, 25, a student at nearby Touro University, said she hoped police would "do more patrols on the island.... Hopefully they'll find her. Our prayers are with the family." 
   
   The FBI and the Solano County Office of Emergency Services are helping in the search, Vallejo police said. Anyone with information on Huskins’ whereabouts are asked to call Vallejo police at (800) 488-9383 or Crime Stoppers at (707) 644-STOP. 
   
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   Vallejo Police continued its search for Denise Huskins, 30, and is releasing little information about her disappearance. Police searched her boyfriend’s home on Mare Island where the alleged kidnapping took place. 
   
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   She’s described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall, and weighs 150 pounds. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. 
   
   Her father, Mike Huskins, made the trip from the Los Angeles area to Vallejo to be close to the investigation and the search for his daughter. 
   
   “Here I am; it’s like a bad dream and I can’t wake up,” he said. 
   
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   He’s praying for her safe return. 
   
   “I’m terrified of what’s going on with my daughter,” he said. “I’m in fear as we’re standing here about what could be happening to her.” 
   
   Huskins says his daughter has no enemies. 
   
   Police and search crews from all over the area spread out over Mare Island searching for her, and have called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice to help. 
   
   At the same time, officers converged on the home where Denise was reportedly kidnapped. Sources say her boyfriend was the one who reported the kidnapping about 12 hours after it allegedly happened on Monday morning. 
   
   Neighbors say the couple met at Vallejo’s Kaiser Permanente where they both work and had no obvious issues. Investigators are not calling her boyfriend a suspect. 
   
   Investigators believe his Toyota Camry was used in the kidnapping, and was eventually found in an undisclosed area of Vallejo. Officers won’t say how the ransom demand was made, or who made it. 
   
   For now, Mike Huskins is waiting for more information and waiting for his daughter to come home. 
   
   “I can’t imagine anyone would do this. Why would they do this? I don’t know,” he said. ||||| Vallejo police are asking for the public's help in locating 29-year-old Denise Huskins who was reportedly kidnapped for ransom.Huskins' boyfriend reported her abduction around 1:55 p.m. Monday. He told police that Huskins was forcibly taken against her will from her Mare Island home early Monday morning and that a ransom demand had been made.He called police several hours after she disappeared, but police have not explained why it took him so long to report the crime. Police are interviewing her boyfriend, 30-year-old Aaron Quinn, but they don't consider him a suspect or a person of interest.Police say they found Huskins' car, a white 2000 Toyota Camry with California license plate No. 4GQA436, at an undisclosed location in Vallejo. Investigators believe her car was taken from the block where she was abducted.Huskins was employed as a physical therapist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vallejo and had previously worked at Southern California Orthopedic Institute in Valencia, according to her Facebook page. The Southern California native moved to Vallejo from Toluca Lake in June 2014.Her parents live in Huntington Beach, where Huskins grew up, but were not home when Eyewitness News tried to get in touch with them. Her father spoke at a press conference up north earlier on Monday, and he is helping in the search for his daughter."My biggest fear is the horrors that might be going through. That's my biggest fear, is that she's going through such horror. She doesn't deserve that," Mike Huskins said.At a news conference in Vallejo Monday night, police said they are focusing their search for her on the straits surrounding Mare Island because an object was found."The intention is for the dive team to go into the water and discover, or I should say to look at what this object that they've discovered to be. And at this point we have no idea what that is," said Vallejo Police Department Lt. Kenny Park.Authorities did not give a reason as to why her boyfriend waited so long to report her disappearance, but did say he is cooperating with investigators. No suspects have been named.More than 100 people are participating in the search effort, including FBI agents.Anyone with information on this investigation was urged to contact the Vallejo Police Department at (707) 648-4524.
target: – The details of Denise Huskins' kidnapping are sketchy, but scary: At some point between midnight and 5am Monday, boyfriend Aaron Quinn says he saw her being "forcibly taken against her will" from a Vallejo, Calif., home. He was given a ransom demand; it's not clear when or how it was delivered. About 12 hours after her abduction, at around 2pm Monday, he reported her missing to police. But police say the 30-year-old Quinn has not been identified as a suspect in the disappearance of Huskins, a 29-year-old physical therapist from Vallejo, the Los Angeles Times reports. Many details are fuzzy, but CBS Sacramento reports that the home from which Huskins was taken is Quinn's, though some outlets reported it was hers. The station also notes that a 2000 Toyota Camry believed to have been used in the kidnapping belongs to Quinn, though some outlets reported it as belonging to Huskins. The Camry was found elsewhere in the city; police believe it was taken from the block where Huskins was abducted, ABC7 reports. The Times says Huskins has lived at her own place in Vallejo since June, while NBC Bay Area speaks to others who also clarify that she didn't live with Quinn, but happened to be there when she was abducted. Both she and Quinn work at Kaiser Permanente. Police are releasing few other details other than noting that they do consider this a "kidnapping for ransom" case, but they say a mysterious "object" was spotted in a nearby waterway; a dive team will investigate, KCRA reports. All police will say regarding Quinn is that he's cooperating and "hopefully we can extract information from him in a way that we can resolve this in a positive manner." The FBI is assisting with the search.