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DPS team searches Kalabera Cave
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Posted on Jun 22 2011
The Department of Public Safety’s team yesterday searched the Kalabera Cave and the Bird Island cliff line in Marpi, but still failed to find any trace of missing sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk.
Members of the DPS Fire Division’s Search and Rescue Unit rappelled down to the deep Kalabera Cave and combed its niches but found no trace of the sisters.
Press secretary Angel Demapan told Saipan Tribune that DPS team also scoured the Bird Island cliff line as well as the Kagman watershed known as Education Island.
“Unfortunately, there are no new developments arising from today’s operations,” Demapan said.
He said the search effort, called “Operation Hope,” remains a joint effort by the CNMI and FBI.
As to what prompted the searches at Kalabera Cave and the Bird Island cliff line, Steve L. Moore, FBI Guam and CNMI resident chief, told Saipan Tribune that the searches are based on information they receive.
“This is in line with our need to focus investigative activities with the resources at our disposal,” Moore said.
The FBI and DPS, he said, will continue to pursue any credible leads that come to them and encouraged anyone with information to report it.
Yesterday marked the fourth week since the May 25 disappearance of 10-year-old Faloma and 9-year-old Maleina in As Teo.
Some of the 15 FBI agents and support staff from Honolulu began leaving the island yesterday, while others are preparing to go back to their respective assignments in Hawaii.
The cash reward fund for any information on the whereabouts of the Luhk sisters has now reached $50,000.
