Heartbreaking news about missing mother and daughter in North Carolina

The search continues for a mother and daughter in North Carolina as heartbreaking details emerge about the family living in their car.

Wilmington police said Amanda Lynn Roberts, 36, and her daughter, Brenna Dawn Shoff, 2, were last seen June 26 near the 5000 block of Market Street, near the Sleep Inn and MainStay Suites.

Earlier this week, Wilmington Police Department Lt. Greg Willett said Newsweek Roberts' husband reported his wife and daughter missing last week. The trio had been living in their car, Willett said.

The husband, whose name has not been released, was arrested in early June and when he was released on June 27, he went to where their car is usually parked. But Roberts, Shoff and the car were nowhere to be found.

Willett said police “have no evidence or indication of foul play or anything else.”

Newsweek Police contacted Willett again Friday for updated information. Police said Roberts may be carrying a hard-sided rolling suitcase with a paint splatter pattern, a cheetah-print diaper bag and a car seat.

Roberts is 5'5″ tall, weighs 115 pounds, has green eyes and brown hair. Shoff is 3'5″ tall, weighs 28 pounds, has curly blonde hair and hazel eyes, as seen in photos released by police.

One photo shows Roberts holding a cup of coffee and smiling with Shoff by his side, also smiling. The other is a solo photo of Shoff looking at the camera, wearing a Minnie Mouse t-shirt.

Anyone with information on the couple's whereabouts is asked to contact the Wilmington Police Department at 910-343-3609.

Meanwhile, in South Miami, Florida, Christine Betancourt, 41, is trying to sue her ex-husband Jeremy Eminhizer because she claims he filed a false missing child report for their daughter, Shea, despite knowing where she was.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued a missing person alert for Shea Eminhizer Saturday night, saying she might be with her mother, who was considered “armed and dangerous.” The 3-year-old girl was found safe.

Betancourt and her attorney Sam Rabin also claim that she was never “armed and dangerous” as Eminhizer told police in her report and that she only made the report to “punish” Betancourt amid their nasty divorce and child custody battle.

“There was no kidnapping or interference with child custody in this case,” Rabin told NBC Miami on Wednesday. “There was no criminal conduct or wrongdoing and that is why Ms. Betancourt has not been charged with a crime. The events were triggered by a false missing person report that should not have been filed.”

Betancourt added: “I was not contacted by the police. There was no check, nothing was done and the false missing person report reached the level that it did and it was even maintained even after he was informed that I was fine and my mother informed the police that my daughter and I were fine.”

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