Haleigh Cummings went missing in February 10th of 2009. Before her disappearance Haleigh’s father was arrested a bakers dozen times. All charges were dropped. Since the disappearance, Misty Croslin and her family have had numerous arrests. Now it’s her Mom and Dads turn.

Police said Lisa and Hank Croslin Sr. bought the crack cocaine from an undercover agent this weekend. A completely random drug buy from a not-so-random family of miscreants.


Along with the buying charges, they are also charged with tampering with evidence for trying to get rid of the crack. Both are being held on a 5-thousand dollar bond.

They are the parents of Misty Croslin, the last person to see Haleigh alive before she vanished. Misty and Haleigh’s father Ron are both in jail on drug charges unrelated to Haleigh’s disappearance.

Hank Croslin Sr., 41, was arrested in November 2009 and accused of doctor shopping. It was reported that Croslin Sr. got approximately 300 Oxycontin and Hydrocodone pills from three different doctors between April and May 2009.

Hope Sykes

Haleigh Cummings aunt is one of the family members who has been jailed for months has now learned her sentence.

She entered a guilty plea earlier this month.

Ronald Cummings was arrested along with his now-ex-wife Misty Croslin, her brother Tommy and Sykes in January.

They face multiple charges of trafficking hydrocodone.

Sykes is the first of the four to be sentenced.

After listening to the jail conversation last night and seeing how cocky she was with her mom about the sentencing, I can only imagine she might have been this way with the judge.

I didn’t think they would give them this much time but I guess either she was the first to be made an example of or she went in that courtroom with the same attitude, I can see her pissing the judge off and making this situation worst than what it could have been.

The police have announced that Haleigh is dead, and are searching the river for evidence. Multiple persons of interest identified.

Misty Croslin’s grandmother appeared on Nancy Grace saying that Timmy Croslin had called her from jail and said he was in the Cummings home with Misty and Joe Overstreet the night Haleigh went missing. The grandmother also said that Joe had went there to steal a gun and when Misty couldn’t find it he took Haleigh instead.

Apparently Misty confirmed this story fifteen minutes later in a similar conversation with her grandmother. Misty has reportedly said that Joe Overstreet had held a knife to her throat and told her he would kill her if she ever told and she was frightened.

Rumors are spreading that Joe killed Haleigh and tied cinder blocks to her body and threw her in a river near Misty’s parents former home.

This entire story is suspect because Misty has already named Joe over a year ago as someone that might be involved because “he has been a criminal all his life.”

This from the Nancy Grace blog…

Flora Hollars laid out multiple versions she says Misty and Tommy Croslin gave her about the night Haleigh vanished, all of them ending in the little girl’s brutal death. One of them, that a yellow rope was put around Haleigh’s body, a brick tied around the bottom of the other end of the rope and Haleigh thrown into the river.

After we see Misty Croslin on video in handcuffs standing on the dock of the Saint Johns river, investigators reveal Misty Croslin went to the river voluntarily. But what exactly did she tell police? We also learn she’s not the only one who was at the river with cops. Tommy Croslin’s attorney says he was the one who brought investigators to the St. Johns River in the first place, the same spot where unnamed sources say dive teams have been searching for a murder weapon.

We know cops have pulled “items” from the river for testing, but are Haleigh’s remains among them? And are multiple arrests about to go down.

This might very well be the way the crime went down but Misty’s justification that she was scared and didn’t tell is ridiculous. That defense only works to the point that Joe left the home. Was she to scared to tell when she being questioned by the police for countless hours? Did she believe Joe would burst into the police station at any minute and kill her? Would he break into jail where she is currently incarcerated on drug charges and kill her?

The “scared of Joe” defense is likely only a justification to absolve herself and her brother Timmy from any wrong doing in the murder of Haleigh Cummings. They all kept their mouths shut for the past 14 months because the were likely all involved in some way. IMO.

Misty Croslin is still being held on drug-trafficking charges.

Sheriff Jeff Hardy didn’t elaborate on whether anything was discovered, but responded that Haleigh had not been found. He said he updated the family on the search along the St. Johns River about five miles south of Haleigh’s Satsuma home. He said it will continue as long as it takes and information will be released as it becomes available.

Robert Fields, Misty’s attorney had this to say.

“This latest search was based on information from someone else,” Croslin may have “shed some light” on who was responsible.

“Somebody else has possibly been implicated in this,” he said. “You need to look away from Misty.”

Croslin’s mother, Lisa Croslin, said her daughter said she was taken to Putnam County but was separated from other members of Haleigh’s family and left alone in a room before she was returned to St. Johns County.

Lisa Croslin said her daughter told her by phone from the St. Johns jail that she was not interviewed about the case Tuesday.

Haleigh’s birth mother, Crystal Sheffield, said she would rather not comment. She and her mother, Marie Griffis, met with the sheriff Tuesday. From their ranch in Baker County, other family members said the Sheriff’s Office and property owners didn’t want media there and couldn’t comment further.

Investigators have not described the nature of the lead, but Joe Overstreet’s aunt said media there have staked out his house in the Nashville area.

Joseph Overstreet is a Misty Croslin’s cousin and was in a dispute with Haleigh’s father, Ronald Cummings, when Cummings accused him of stealing a gun. Overstreet moved back to Tennessee after Haleigh disappeared. He was interviewed by detectives before being cleared last year.

Tuesday, officers, divers and police dogs from several Northeast Florida agencies combed an area off County Road 309, including the river and woods on either bank. Dozens of searchers, divers and several boats are being used, including some equipped with sophisticated underwater sonar.

The search location is previously un-searched. It is off Shell Harbour Road, close to where Misty Croslin’s parents lived on Magnolia Drive before Haleigh disappeared. Her father, Hank Croslin Sr., said Overstreet had stayed at the residence before.

“Although various resources are being utilized to conduct this search, it is just one of many operations conducted during this investigation,” a statement from the Sheriff’s Office said.

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Misty Croslin has reportedly written a letter telling what happened to Haleigh

Several sources are reporting that Misty Croslin wrote a letter to a family member revealing what she knows about the night Haleigh Cummings disappeared. The letter is being examined by authorities in Satsuma, Florida for its authenticity and validity.

Will this new evidence finally lead investigators to Haleigh?

Remember when the story broke that Tommy came by and stole a gun? Well now the story seems to be that Tim and Joe, Misty’s cousin, came by to steal the gun but it wasn’t there. Joe got pissed and took Haleigh.

It has also been reported that Misty Croslin’s attorney has known what Misty has been hiding since she was arrested on drug trafficing charges when she sold prescription pain killers oxycodone and oxycoton to an undercover officer.

This is not verified but its being passed around by Art Harris, a freelance reporter that has been covering this case.
Nancy Grace has the latest breaking developments tonight at 8pm.

More Misty Croslin Photos

Six little words blended in to five but maybe the first crack in Misty’s armor. Such a simple sentence but an unbelievably explosive statement.

Newly released jailhouse tapes gives us some insight into what Misty Croslin, the last person to see 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings alive, knows about the night the little girl disappeared.

Misty Croslin is speaking to her sister-in-law Chelsea, she knows she is being recorded so she doesn’t say much. She is speaking of a bounty hunter who has offered to bail her out in exchange for information that will lead him to Haleigh.

Here is what she said:

Sister-in-law: So what, you have things you need to talk to him about?
Misty Croslin: Well yeah, I mean, it’s you know, hard to talk.
Sister-in-law: I know.
Misty Croslin: Yeah. But it’s gonna hurt two people. It’s gonna hurt two people.
Sister-in-law: That we care about?
Misty Croslin: Kinda. One, yeah. And the other, kinda.
Sister-in-law: That I care about?
Misty Croslin: Yeah.
Sister-in-law: Cause I know I don’t give a f**k about Ronald, excuse my language.
Misty Croslin: No, No. No it’s somebody. Yeah, no.
Sister-in-law: It’s not him?
Misty Croslin: No, you just think Chelsea, use your head. And you’ll know.

“just think Chelsea, use your head. And you’ll know.”

I believe Misty Croslin is protecting her brother Tommy Croslin. I have always thought it was pretty obvious that one of these “two people” is Ronald but this gives me some doubts. In the sting video they brought up Haleigh. They had no way of knowing they were being recorded and they spoke like they had no idea what happened to her. I have pretty much ruled out that they acted together at this point.

Tommy left the area immediatley after Haleigh went missing.

Your thoughts?

Misty Croslin’s Attorney entered a plea of…. drum roll please
\./\./\./\./\./\./\./\./\./\./\ …. not guilty on drug trafficing charges.

Misty has been so forthcoming with information these last 14 months I thought she would admit the drug selling and tell us where the body is.

Tongue in cheek of course.

An attorney for Misty Croslin, the last person to see Haleigh Cummings, said his client is not guilty of drug-trafficking charges.

Croslin’s attorney filed paperwork with her not-guilty plea on Monday in St. Johns County.

Croslin, 18, was babysitting Haleigh more than a year ago when the child vanished from her father’s trailer in rural Putnam County while he was at work.

The theory of the creator of this video….

HaLeigh Cummings’ mother, Crystal Sheffield, did not have any photos of herself holding HaLeigh. They wanted to make a lot of money though, so they Photoshopped a picture so it would look like she cared about the child enough to have at least one photo. They got busted, and then they lied about it. The people involved in the fraud claim to be involved with law enforcement.

My observation is that the most obvious thing that makes this picture a production is the legnth from Chrystal’s sholder to whats supposed to be her elbow behind Haleigh. Its obviously a mans arm, unless of course Chrystal has the reach of a 6′8″” basketball player.
What do you think?

The pair and three others were arrested last month for allegedly selling prescription pain killers oxycodone and oxycoton to an undercover officer.

Misty Croslin instructs Ronald on how the drug deal should go down.

“You just leave the pills right there and I’ll pick them up when I walk into the bathroom,” Misty says on the tape that was recorded in an undercover cop car.

Ronald Cummings seems extremely worried that if people find out he’s involved with drugs they would assume a connection to the disappearance of his daughter Haleigh. I guess he thought he could just get off like all the times before, because he never mentions being worried about anything else. Seems he worries way too much about how he is perceived.

“Please don’t ever tell no one that I did this shit,” he said. “People would go to assuming that I was a dope boy or pissed someone off. Dope boys don’t come and get your kids like that.”

This week, both Cummings and Croslin plead not guilty to drug charges and are sitting in jail hoping someone will raise their bonds.

In my opinion: Ronald Cummings is a child molestor that preys on underage girls and uses the drugs as bait, you might say jailbait. He has the drugs, they stay for the drugs.

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Seems no one can handle simple math in this family.

Ronald Cummings, his ex-wife Misty Croslin and her brother Hank “Tommy ” Croslin, Jr. were arrested Wednesday on multiple drug trafficking charges following a month-long investigation.

Deputies said the three allegedly sold Oxycodone and Hydrocodone to undercover agents.

Hope Sykes and Orlando resident Donna Broch were also arrested.

If convicted, Cummings, Misty Croslin and Brock could face a mandatory 25-year sentence. The other suspects could face 3 to 15 years.