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ORANGE At 6 feet 4 inches as well as 190 pounds, James Wernke is an imposing man generally when staring down batters from a pitching mound.

Drafted out of high propagandize by a Oakland Athletics, Wernke instead motionless to go to college, where he became a star left-hander.

Monday afternoon, in a 3000 retard of Sunnywood Drive, Fullerton, Emily Stofer, right, hugs Sheri Wernke, a mom of blank James Wernke, 21. Sheri Wernke, who used to live in Fullerton prior to relocating to Colorado a couple of years ago, took a earliest moody currently to Orange County after conference a news. She, her father as well as most friends are coordinating a one after another poke of a area.

The Santa Ana College tyro not long ago landed a full ball grant during Cal State Long Beach as well as was being courted by veteran ball teams when, in a mystery which continues to perplex family as well as friends, he seemingly left yet a trace.

The 21-year-old was final seen during about 1:30 p.m. Saturday walking out a doorway of his longtime girlfriend's mother's residence in Fullerton to walk her yellow Labrador wearing a T-shirt, shorts, as well as flip-flops in a rain.

Today, more than 48 hours in to a search, officials have small to go on.

"Every hour which goes by, you worry a small more," pronounced James' mother, Sheri Wernke, who with her husband, Robert, arrived from Colorado upon Sunday to support in a search.

The California Emergency Management Agency was organizing a fortuitous of volunteers to poke for Wernke tonight, as well as a command post is being set up during a Fullerton Sports Complex, pronounced Lt. Alex Bastreri, a spokesman for a Fullerton Police Department.

"We're fundamentally operating underneath a grounds which he might have slipped as well as fell," Bastreri said. "He's a big guy, as well as typically not a aim to be mugged or abducted.

"There have been no known threats made upon his life. He doesn't party or ! splash o r make use of drugs. He seems to have his hold up together. He doesn't have a lot of income his kin would send him money, yet he's not a sort of chairman who would be carrying a lot of cash upon him.

"The usually thing which seems probable during this time is which there has been an accident but, where's a dog?"

Indeed, a dog is blank too; checks with internal animal shelters have turned up nothing.

Robert Wernke this sunrise viewed with military surveillance tapes from a 7-Eleven as well as another business in a area around Sunnywood Drive where James Wernke final was seen.

This afternoon, a radio hire erroneously reported which a credit card belonging to Wernke was used during a Starbucks in Brea during 5 p.m. Saturday notwithstanding a fact which Wernke left his wallet behind in a Fullerton house, according to kin as well as police.

Wernke essentially had used his credit card Friday, a day prior to he went missing, Bastreri said.

James Wernke grew up in Fullerton as well as graduated from Troy High School. He is majoring in nursing as well as was about to crack a books for finals when he vanished.

"This was not a little child who was depressed," Sheri Wernke said. "Did he trip as well as fall as well as harm himself? Did he have any enemies? If there's somebody who didn't like him, you do not know who it is as well as neither do his friends.

"We've gone through every scenario. What could it be?"

James Wernke shares an unit in Orange with his sister, Kristina, 23.

He left after dropping by a home of Diana Bock, a mom of his girlfriend, Sami Bock, in a 3000 retard of Sunnywood Drive in Fullerton.

Sami Bock, 20, attends a University of Long Island in Brooklyn, N.Y. upon a full soccer grant as well as was set to fly out to Orange County late this afternoon to support in a search.

"None of this makes sense," Sami Bock said. "Everything is surreal right now."

Boc! k pronou nced she final listened from James in a content summary he sent her during 1:40 p.m. Saturday. She declined to reveal a summary yet pronounced it wasn't anything out of a ordinary.

"He doesn't have any enemies," Sami Bock said. "He doesn't really go out upon a weekends. Usually you Skype each alternative upon weekends as well as talk all night."

Sheri Wernke pronounced she final spoke to her son during about 1 p.m. Saturday.

"You receptive to advice like you usually woke up," she told him.

"No, I usually got behind from a gym," James said. "I have to begin studying for finals."

Sheri Wernke pronounced her son didn't say anything about starting for a walk. A couple of minutes later, though, James walked out in to a sleet carrying usually his dungeon phone, according to kin as well as police. He left behind his wallet as well as a keys to his Ford Explorer, officials said.

James' dungeon phone is off, his mom pronounced otherwise, military could have used it to home in upon his location.

Bloodhounds, helicopters as well as investigators descended upon a Fullerton area Sunday to demeanour for a 21-year-old. Relatives as well as friends started plastering fliers via a area as well as one after another to do so this morning.

Wernke has blue eyes as well as short, unwashed blonde hair. Fullerton military initially were starting to spin over a investigation to military in James' hometown, Orange, yet motionless to keep a case.

Anyone with report about a box might contact a Fullerton Police Department during 714-738-6838.

Register staff writers Jon Cassidy as well as Kelli Fadroski contributed to this story.

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