Police Continue Search for Missing Las Vegas Showgirl, Ex-Beau Is 'Person of Interest'
Debbie Flores-Narvaez went missing Dec. 12
Dec. 22, 2010 — -- Police are continuing their search for the missing Las Vegas showgirl Debbie Flores-Narvaez, and her ex-boyfriend had a court appearance Tuesday to answer to charges that he had beaten her up in an earlier incident.
An attorney for Jason "Blu" Griffith, an aspiring rapper, appeared in Las Vegas Justice Court on his behalf. The judge set a preliminary hearing date for April 2011.
Griffith is charged with one count of domestic-violence-related battery, a misdemeanor, and one count of coercion, a felony. Neither Griffith nor his attorney returned several calls for comments to ABC News yesterday.
Griffith is accused of kicking and punching lFlores-Narvaez, a lawyer turned dancer, on Oct. 22.
A police report said the alleged abuse started when Griffith took Flores-Narvaez's iPhone and she argued with him about it.
Griffith acknowledged arguing with her, but denied being violent or taking her phone, the police report said.
The police report also said Flores-Narvaez had bruises on her legs and lost a tuft of her hair.
The 31-year-old Flores-Narvaez, a former NFL cheerleader who was a burlesque dancer at the Luxor Casino's "Fantasy" show, was last seen with Griffith on Dec. 12.
Griffith is considered a person of interest because he was the last person to see Flores-Narvaez before she disappeared, but he is not a suspect and is cooperating with the investigation, police said.
"We have spoken to her ex-boyfriend and he stated that they did have a short conversation. She then left in her vehicle, and when she left everything was fine and she appeared to be fine," Lt. Rob Lundquist of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Tuesday at a press conference. "At this point we're going to look at every aspect into this investigation as if it is foul play, but at this point we haven't found any evidence of foul play."
Flores-Narvaez told police who responded to the October incident that she'd been dating Griffith for a year and was pregnant with his child.
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