Detective receives award for role in abduction case
SEARCY — A White County Sheriff’s Department Detective has received national attention from the United States Secret Service with an award he received from the National Computer Forensics Institute for his role in the investigation of a missing Bald Knob teenager. The Citizen reported information from the WCSO when they identified the abducted girl as Raynee Massey. She was found in Wichita, Kan. and reunited with her family.
When she went missing, Massey had reportedly “packed a backpack in preparation” of running away and “was seen by a security camera getting into a car with an unknown male.” On Nov. 14, 2022, the sheriff’s office reported that she was spotted leaving El Paso toward Vilonia/ Conway in a vehicle with two other individuals. At the time, the sheriff’s office said that she may have been attempting to make her way to Florida.” Her parents, Samuel and jill Massey told KARK, Channel 4 in Little Rock that they didn’t know that Raynee was thinking about running away until she left their residence and got into a vehicle with a man while her dad was deer hunting and her mom was in the kitchen.
Sgt. Joshua Biviano, the recipient of this award, told The Citizen that this institute is primarily a training and resource center for a lot of agencies, such as White County and those across the country. He said the awarded was presented here in White County with the special agent and assistant agent in charge of the Little Rock field office for the Secret Service were present along with some of the other agents related to the task force. “It was really an honor,” Biviano said. “It’s obviously nice to get recognized but just knowing that we had the result in that case, I think honestly is the biggest reward.” He said his wife was there too and said he preferred this kind of small ceremony.
Once a year they recognize various officers, deputies, law enforcement throughout the country and he said one of these recognitions is “the Significant Case Award.”
According to information from KWCH-TV, 12 News in Wichita from Sept. 30, A Sedgwick County jury found 37 year-old David Roark, of Wichita guilty on 18 counts in connection to this kidnapping case. The TV station reported that the jury convicted him for crimes connected with this December 2022 kidnapping of this 14 year-old girl. According to investigators, Roark and the teen met online and the girl wound up being found
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inside of a closet in the North Riverside neighborhood in Wichita. The charges included kidnapping, child abuse, aggravated indecent liberites with a child, criminal sodomy and sexual exploitation of a child. Biviano said the 2022 case he worked on was a case of a missing 14 year-old juvenile that was abducted from the White County area “and she was transported by the subject up to Wichita, Kansas and she was held there from the day of her disappearance to when we located her. It was 31 days if memory serves me correct. She was held by her abductor up there. I’m going to shy away from a few of the more gory details just because she was a juvenile but you can use your imagination and it was bad but she was found alive and safe and actually I was just up in Wichita a couple of weeks ago for a trial involving that suspect and he was actually on all 18 counts that he was charged with.
They are not going to do sentencing until this next month.”
