West Lynner aids search for Giovanni

LYNN – Between rounding out summer and preparing for school, 16-year-old West Lynn resident Richard Yearwood found time to urge outdoor advertising giant Clear Channel to put missing Giovanni Gonzalez’ face on its Wyoma Square billboard next week.Clear Channel spokeswoman Lisa Dollinger was checking Thursday to determine if the company could comply with the request, but District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett’s office confirmed the company is devoting the billboard free of charge to the search for the five-year-old.It will include pictures of Giovanni and his father, Ernesto Gonzalez, along with pertinent information.Yearwood, whose family moved to the North Shore from North Carolina six years ago, got the inspiration to propose the billboard from conversations with fellow Greater Lynn Senior Services workers since Aug. 17, the day the five year-old’s mother reported him missing.”We talked about it every day and wanted to know the latest news, especially after they put up posters asking for the public’s help,” Yearwood said.Ernesto Gonzalez is in the Essex House of Correction in Middleton charged with child endangerment. He is scheduled to return to District Court on Sept. 17.He told police on Aug. 17 that he had not seen the boy since a visit on Aug. 10. A telephone message on the boy’s mother’s phone from Gonzalez confirmed for police Daisy Colon’s claim that she dropped Giovanni off with his father at Gonzalez’ Brightwood Terrace apartment on Aug. 15.Lynn and State Police met Thursday at the Lynn police station to map their strategy in the continuing search for the little boy.Investigators are currently working on the logistics of the search with State Police headquarters in Framingham, but will not reveal at this time where the next search areas will be, or when those efforts will take place, due to the ongoing investigation.Police are continuing to conduct interviews, and in some cases are re-interviewing people in an effort to obtain additional information about Giovanni’s whereabouts.Investigators are once again asking the public to call Lynn police with any information they have about this case. The number for the Lynn Police Department is 781-595-2000.