ORANGE At 6 feet 4 inches as well as 190 pounds, James Wernke is an imposing man especially when staring down batters from a pitching mound.
Drafted out of tall propagandize by a Oakland Athletics, Wernke instead motionless to go to college, where he became a star left-hander.
Monday afternoon, in a 3000 retard of Sunnywood Drive, Fullerton, Emily Stofer, right, hugs Sheri Wernke, a mom of blank James Wernke, 21. Sheri Wernke, who used to live in Fullerton before relocating to Colorado a couple of years ago, took a earliest flight currently to Orange County after conference a news. She, her father as well as many friends have been coordinating a continued poke of a area.The Santa Ana College student not long ago landed a full ball scholarship during Cal State Long Beach as well as was being courted by professional ball teams when, in a mystery which continues to perplex family as well as friends, he clearly left though a trace.
The 21-year-old was final seen during about 1:30 p.m. Saturday walking out a door of his longtime girlfriend's mother's house in Fullerton to travel her yellow Labrador wearing a T-shirt, shorts, as well as flip-flops in a rain.
Today, some-more than 48 hours into a search, officials have little to go on.
"Every hour which goes by, you worry a little more," pronounced James' mother, Sheri Wernke, who with her husband, Robert, arrived from Colorado upon Sunday to support in a search.
The California Emergency Management Agency was organizing a contingent of volunteers to poke for Wernke tonight, as well as a command post is being set up during a Fullerton Sports Complex, pronounced Lt. Alex Bastreri, a spokesman for a Fullerton Police Department.
"We're fundamentally handling under a grounds which he may have slipped as well as fell," Bastreri said. "He's a big guy, as well as typically not a aim to be mugged or abducted.
"There have been no well known threats made upon his life. He doesn'! t party or drink or make use of drugs. He seems to have his life together. He doesn't have a lot of income his relatives would send him money, though he's not a type of person who would be carrying a lot of cash upon him.
"The usually thing which seems probable during this time is which there has been an collision but, where's a dog?"
Indeed, a dog is blank too; checks with local animal shelters have turned up nothing.
Robert Wernke this sunrise noticed with military surveillance tapes from a 7-Eleven as well as an additional commercial operation in a area around Sunnywood Drive where James Wernke final was seen.
This afternoon, a television station erroneously reported which a credit label belonging to Wernke was used during a Starbucks in Brea during 5 p.m. Saturday notwithstanding a actuality which Wernke left his wallet during a back of in a Fullerton house, according to relatives as well as police.
Wernke essentially had used his credit label Friday, a day before he went missing, Bastreri said.
James Wernke grew up in Fullerton as well as graduated from Troy High School. He is majoring in nursing as well as was about to crack a books for finals when he vanished.
"This was not some child who was depressed," Sheri Wernke said. "Did he slip as well as fall as well as harm himself? Did he have any enemies? If there's somebody who didn't similar to him, you do not know who it is as well as conjunction do his friends.
"We've left through every scenario. What could it be?"
James Wernke shares an apartment in Orange with his sister, Kristina, 23.
He left after dropping by a home of Diana Bock, a mom of his girlfriend, Sami Bock, in a 3000 retard of Sunnywood Drive in Fullerton.
Sami Bock, 20, attends a University of Long Island in Brooklyn, N.Y. upon a full soccer scholarship as well as was set to fly out to Orange County late this afternoon to support in a search.
"None of this cr! eates se nse," Sami Bock said. "Everything is surreal right now."
Bock pronounced she final heard from James in a content summary he sent her during 1:40 p.m. Saturday. She declined to reveal a summary though pronounced it wasn't anything out of a ordinary.
"He doesn't have any enemies," Sami Bock said. "He doesn't really go out upon a weekends. Usually you Skype any alternative upon weekends as well as talk all night."
Sheri Wernke pronounced she final spoke to her son during about 1 p.m. Saturday.
"You receptive to advice similar to you usually woke up," she told him.
"No, we usually got during a back of from a gym," James said. "I have to begin studying for finals."
Sheri Wernke pronounced her son didn't contend anything about going for a walk. A couple of mins later, though, James walked out into a sleet carrying usually his dungeon phone, according to relatives as well as police. He left during a back of his wallet as well as a keys to his Ford Explorer, officials said.
James' dungeon phone is off, his mom pronounced otherwise, military could have used it to home in upon his location.
Bloodhounds, helicopters as well as investigators descended upon a Fullerton neighborhood Sunday to demeanour for a 21-year-old. Relatives as well as friends started plastering fliers via a area as well as continued to do so this morning.
Wernke has blue eyes as well as short, unwashed blonde hair. Fullerton military primarily were going to turn over a review to military in James' hometown, Orange, though motionless to keep a case.
Anyone with information about a box may contact a Fullerton Police Department during 714-738-6838.
Register staff writers Jon Cassidy as well as Kelli Fadroski contributed to this story.
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