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The 9-year-old missing Lompoc child Melodee Buzzard was with her mother as recently as October 7, said the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office in a press release on Monday. The sheriff’s office said that Melodee’s mother, Ashlee Buzzard, may have driven her daughter in a white Chevrolet Malibu outside of the county, to as far as Nebraska. Detectives determined the car was a rental. The license plate number was 9MNG101.
The Sheriff’s Office says that Buzzard is uncooperative and has not provided detectives information on Melodee’s current location.