This image provided by Michigan Amber Alert via The Detroit News shows Bianca Jones, 2 years old. Detroit's police chief says investigators are questioning the truth of a story that Bianca Jones was kidnapped during a carjacking. Chief Ralph Godbee issued a statement Sunday, De. 4, 2011 saying police are interested in "allaying some of the fears of the public" about the "apparent randomness" of her disappearance. (AP Photo/Michigan Amber Alert via The Detroit News)
This image provided by Michigan Amber Alert via The Detroit News shows Bianca Jones, 2 years old. Detroit's police chief says investigators are questioning the truth of a story that Bianca Jones was kidnapped during a carjacking. Chief Ralph Godbee issued a statement Sunday, De. 4, 2011 saying police are interested in "allaying some of the fears of the public" about the "apparent randomness" of her disappearance. (AP Photo/Michigan Amber Alert via The Detroit News)
This Nov. 28, 2006, photo released by the Michigan Department of Corrections in Lansing, Mich., shows Dandre Lane, the father of a missing 2-year-old Detroit girl. Police Chief Ralph Godbee said authorities are questioning Lane?s statement Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, that Bianca Jones was kidnapped when a carjacker took the car Lane was driving. Lane was being held on an unrelated charge while police continued the disappearance of his daughter. (AP Photo/Michigan Department of Corrections)
DETROIT (AP) ? About three dozen volunteers joined Detroit police officers in a hunt Monday for a 2-year-old girl reported missing by her father, who said she was taken during a carjacking last week.
They left in a cold morning rain from a church not far from where Dandre Lane, 32, told police that daughter Bianca Jones was last seen Friday. Searchers were split into groups of about 10 people and assigned blocks to canvass, looking through fields, alleys, vacant lots and trash cans. They were also asked to speak to people who could be witnesses.
Chief Ralph Godbee said Sunday investigators were questioning the truth of Lane's story, and Lane was in custody on an unrelated warrant. Police also searched his home Monday morning, but declined to provide details.
No suspects have been identified related to the alleged carjacking.
Banika Jones, the girl's mother, said before the search began that she last saw her daughter Nov. 26, when family and friends celebrated her birthday. Jones said Lane had taken Bianca to see a movie, brought her back to her mother's house for the party and then the girl left with her father.
"Please continue to keep searching for Bianca," Banika Jones said. "We love her and we want her home. Bianca, Mommy has lots and lots of gingerbread men for you when you get home."
Makibla Gideon, 39, of Highland Park, was with a group of five women searching. She said she doesn't know the family but felt compelled to participate.
She and her group searched vacant, ramshackle structures, peered in trash bags and bins, and lifted dirty old mattresses.
"You have to put all that aside when it comes to a precious little girl," Gideon said. "If it was my son or me missing, I would want somebody looking for me."
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Associated Press writer Jeff Karoub contributed to this report.
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