Search ongoing for Dixon woman

By ASHLEY FOX

Lake County Leader

The search continues for a Dixon woman reported missing last month.

“Jermain Charlo is still missing and we need to get her back,” Missoula Police Det. Guy Baker said last Wednesday, July 18.

Jermain Charlo, who also goes by Jermain Morigeau, 23, was last seen in Missoula between midnight and 1 a.m. Saturday, June 16, according to Baker.

She was wearing a gray UnderArmour hoodie with a large camouflage UnderArmour logo on the front; two-tone baseball hat with a tan bill and blue crown that had three trees on the front; and jeans with cowgirl boots.

Baker said Charlo has some distinguishing features including gauged ears in place of earrings, tattoos on her upper chest, a deer tattoo on her left shoulder and another tattoo on her left forearm.

CHARLO IS 5-feet, 9-inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. She has brown eyes and hair that fades lighter at the ends, he noted.

Baker said that currently, law enforcement knows through investigations that Charlo went out on Friday, June 15, to three bars in Missoula.

She was dropped off between midnight and 1 a.m. June 16, on Fifth Street between Russell and Orange streets. Charlo was last seen walking east toward the Food Farm, Baker added.

Over the course of the last month, Baker said that about one dozen people have been interviewed.

BAKER SAID Charlo was at the Badlander Bar and Golden Rose, both in downtown Missoula. She also went to Dark Horse Bar, at Strand Avenue and Regent Street near the middle of town.

Baker said that authorities believe Charlo is in danger due to lack of social media presence.

Prior to her disappearance, Charlo was active on social media sites several times a day.

Since she has gone missing, Baker confirmed that Charlo’s online presence has ceased, which is “a total deviation of her pattern of life.”

“There hasn’t been contact since,” he added.

Coupling her change in social media along with the fact that Baker said Charlo hasn’t disappeared in the past, “It’s very concerning,” he said.

MPD is the lead agency, and the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Missoula County Sheriff’s Office and Flathead Tribal Police are assisting in the investigation, Baker said.

Together, the agencies are researching a couple different investigative angles, one of which that Charlo could be a victim of human trafficking.

Investigators believe that Charlo doesn’t have access to her cell phone or other ways to reach social media.

Anyone with information regarding Charlo’s disappearance or current whereabouts should call Baker at (406) 396-3217, MPD Det. Dean Christenson at (406) 396-3261, or their local law enforcement agency.