The parents of two missing SoCal residents are unhappy investigators did not know their missing vehicles had been given parking tickets.
The cars of Raymond Collins and Erica Alonso were both given tickets before being eventually found by detectives.
Police officials says law enforcement databases are often different from parking enforcement databases, which may be part of the reason for the disconnect.
Annie Collins, whose music producer son Raymond disappeared on February 16th during a business meeting in Compton believes if that is the case, then something has to be done.
After her boy was reported missing on February 20th. Three days after that, was found parked on a side street in Compton, but Raymond was nowhere to be seen. His car had two tickets were on the windshield. One was for February 18th and another for February 19th.
"(We gave) His description, the car description, the license plate number… everything that we could to get this started," Collins said, " It's been so frustrating because it's going on a month and a half and we have no answers."
Collins is unhappy investigators did not discover his car sooner despite its details being entered into the parking violations data base
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A similar set of circumstances occurred again this week, when missing Orange County woman Erica Alonso's vehicle was recovered in Aliso Viejo after she had been missing since disappearing following a Valentine's Day date.
Her father, Isaac, told NBC4 he believes it also had two parking tickets attached.
