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WEBVTT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE20-YEAR-OLD ALYCIA YEOMAN WASLAST SEEN OR HEARD FROM, HERFAMILY IS COMING FORWARD,OFFERING A MESSAGE OF HOPE ANDPAIN READ ALOUD BY THEGRIDLEY-BIGGS POLICE CHIEF.>> WE FIRMLY BELIEVE IN OURHEARTS THAT ALY IS ALIVE ANDNEEDS OUR HELP.ALY, IF YOU'RE HEARING THIS WEHAVE COME TOGETHER FROM ACROSSTHE COUNTRY.WE LOVE YOU, AND ARE DESPERATELYDOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO GETYOU HOME SAFE AGAIN.REPORTER: EIGHT DAYS AFTERYEOMAN VANISHED, THE SEVENINVESTIGATING AGENCIES HELD APRESS CONFERENCE.LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCESCONFIRMED TO KCRA 3 NEWS HERMOTHER RECEIVED MESSAGES YEOMANWAS KIDNAPPED AND MADE DEMANDS.THE CHIEF CONFIRMING SOME OFTHAT.>> THE FAMILY DID RECEIVESEVERAL SOCIAL MEDIA TEXTS ANDINFORMATION, THE SPECIFICSYOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU'VEUSED THE WORD RANSOM, I'VE HEARDKIDNAPPED NOW, I WOULDN'T SHARETHE INVESTIGATIVE LEAD OR EXPOSETHATREPORTER: INVESTIGATORS ALSOGAVE A NEW TIMELINE ON WHENYEOMAN WAS LAST HEARD FROM.AFTER INITIALLY REPORTING SHEWAS LAST SEEN LEAVING THIS YUBACITY HOME AROUND 11 AT NIGHTMARCH 30, THEY NOW SAY SHE LASTMADE CONTACT WHILE DRIVING TOTHE HOME AT 7:51.SHORTLY THEREAFTER,-- >> SHORTLY THEREAFTER,COMMUNICATION WITH ALY, ALYCIAOR ALY BY BOTH PERSONAL CONTACTAND VIA CELL PHONECOMMUNICATIONS.REPORTER: THAT SAME NIGHTSURVEILLANCE VIDEO CAPTUREDYEOMAN'S TRUCK RACING DOWNCOOLEY ROAD IN LIVE OAK BEFORESLOWING AT THE LEVEE, TURNING ONA BLINKER, AND EVENTUALLYNAVIGATING ITS WAY AROUND ALOCKED GATE.THE TRUCK AND YEOMAN'S CELLPHONE WERE FOUND FOUR DAYS LATERNEARBY.YESTERDAY POLICE AND FBI AGENTSSEARCHED THE HOME, BUT AREN'TREVEALING WHAT THEY TOOK.WITH MORE RESOURCES THE SUTTERCOUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE IS NOWTAKING OVER THE CASE FROM THE 14PERSON GRIDLEY PD.WITH NO NAMED SUSPECTS OR

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A week after Yuba College student Alycia Yeoman vanished, the family is asking for help."We firmly believe in our hearts that Aly is alive and needs our help", the Gridley-Biggs Police Chief Dean Price said on behalf of the family. "Please, please bring her home.""Aly, if you are hearing this, we have come all across the country. We love you and are desperately doing everything we can to bring you home safely," the family added in their statement. This is the first time the family has spoken publicly since Yeoman's disappearance. ++Download the KCRA 3 News app for iOS and AndroidThe Sutter County Sheriff's Office took over as lead investigator as of Friday. The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to her recovery.Yeoman was last seen or heard from at 7:51 p.m. March 30 while driving to a home on the 1800 block of Romero Street in Yuba City, according to the Sutter County Sheriff's Department."Shortly thereafter, communication with (Alycia) ceased, by both personal contact and via cell phone communications," Undersheriff Jeff Pierce said.Gridley-Biggs police had initially said Yeoman was last seen leaving the home at 11 p.m. Surveillance video from a Live Oak homeowner shows Yeoman's truck driving onto a levee around 10:55 p.m. March 30. The video shows Yeoman's truck go around a gate and then drive on top of the levee along an orchard.Investigators believe after what is captured on surveillance video, the truck went down the levee and into the orchard where it became stuck.Farm workers reported the truck to investigators Monday. At the scene, law enforcement found a single pair of footprints walking away and Yeoman's cellphone.Yeoman’s mother received several text messages claiming the 20-year-old was kidnapped, multiple law enforcement sources told KCRA 3.Authorities said Yeoman’s mother first received a message Tuesday night, making demands. The messages were sent to Yeoman's mother through an online source that used multiple IP addresses, making it difficult to trace.On Wednesday, search teams from the Butte County Sheriff’s Office brought dogs to the orchard in Sutter County off of Pennington Road.On Thursday, law enforcement officers served a search warrant at the home where Yeoman was last seen.Yeoman is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs about 115pounds and has brownish-blond hair. She also has braces, a nose ring and asmall mole near her left eye, Gridley police said.Anyone with information about Yeoman's whereabouts is asked tocall the Gridley Police Department at 530-846-5670.Stay with KCRA 3 for the latest.