Honolulu police found late this afternoon in Pearl City the car belonging to a single mother of three young boys who has been missing since Sunday.

The gold 2003 Saturn Ion belonging to Loida Gabon Wideman was found parked along a curb on Lehua Avenue near 1st Street this afternoon by Crime Reduction Unit officers from the Pearl City substation.

Wideman, 39, remains missing.

Police called Junior Gabon, Wideman's brother, about the finding shortly before 6 p.m. The car was found at about 4:30 p.m.

Wideman's family said the disappearance is uncharacteristic because she is dependable.

"We are very much worried," Junior Gabon, Wideman's brother, said Tuesday. "She's very responsible for everything."

Police are calling the disappearance suspicious because no cell phone, credit card or airline flight activity has been detected, and police failed to locate her using the GPS on her cell phone.

"We're at a dead end," said Sgt. Kim Buffett, Honolulu CrimeStoppers coordinator, who put out a bulletin Tuesday afternoon asking for the public's help in finding Wideman.

Buffett called the case a "really strange situation," where a responsible person disappears. She said the last time Hono­lulu police had a similar case was in 2008 when Kimberley Jacobs, whose husband was the last to see her, disappeared, never to be found again.

Wideman, a certified nurse's assistant, left her Waipahu home at 9:30 p.m. Sunday for work at a Kapolei nursing home.

When she failed to return home at 6:30 a.m. Monday, her mother, who lives with her, was extremely concerned and called Gabon.

"My mom was worried because every time she's supposed to be home by 6:30," Gabon said.

Wideman usually returns home to take her children, ages 5, 8 and 11, to school and an adult foster care patient to a day care facility.

Wideman failed to show up at work Sunday night, something uncharacteristic for her, her family said.

On Monday morning Gabon frantically searched the roadways to see whether she may have been involved in a car accident.

He also stopped to see whether she may have been at her former home in Kapolei, where her ex-husband lives, but did not see her car there.

Buffett said police have interviewed her ex-husband, who has cooperated. He is not considered a suspect, she said.

Along with her mother, Wideman's ex-husband is now staying with their children at their Waipahu house, Gabon said.

"My mom, she's very worried," Gabon said. "Every (person) she talks to, she cries. She couldn't sleep because it's very unusual for my sister."

"She's (Wideman) a very nice person," Gabon said. "We are so worried. She's very responsible to us, to everybody."

A neighbor who is a classmate of Wideman's eldest son said, "She is a good mom. I see her picking up her kids from school."

Wideman is described as Filipino, 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 134 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information concerning Wideman or her car is asked to call Crime­Stoppers at 955-8300, *CRIME on a cellphone, or text "CS808" plus your message to 274637 or CRIMES.
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Missing woman’s ex to be held at least 45 days
Posted: May 22, 2012 1:13 AM EDT Updated: May 22, 2012 9:50 AM EDT

Lonnell Reginald Wideman

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -

Lonnell Reginald Wideman, ex-husband of missing Waipahu woman Loida Gabon Wideman, will spend at least 45 more days incarcerated at the Oahu Community Correctional Center before the parole board will consider releasing him for alleged parole violations.

Loida Gabon Wideman, a mother of three living in Waipahu, has been missing since the evening of Sunday, May 13. Police have said Lonnell Wideman is not a suspect in the case, but five days after she vanished he was arrested for violating conditions of his parole for conviction on a 1985 attempted murder charge.

Court records show Lonnell Wideman has six prior convictions. They include convictions for possession of a switchblade and second degree robbery in 1986, harassment in 1999, and kidnapping, burglary, and attempted murder in 1988. The 1988 convictions stem from a 1985 incident at an apartment on South King Street.

"It appears that he went to a young (24 year old) woman's apartment, knocked on the door. When the young woman answered he forced his way in. I believe he had a knife. A struggle ensued. She was able to get away. I believe she was injured in the struggle," said Tommy Johnson, Paroles and Pardons Administrator for the Hawaii Paroling Authority.

On February 25, 1988 Wideman was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for his conviction on the 1985 attempted murder charge. A short time later the Paroling Authority set his minimum sentence at 12 years.

Wideman was set free on parole on October 28, 1997. He stayed out of trouble with the law for almost ten years, but on October 4, 2007 he was sent back to prison for violating parole by going to the Philippines without permission from his parole officer. On January 26, 2010 he was freed on parole again.

In July 2011 a Makakilo woman accused Wideman of sexual assault, but she did not press charges. She did, however, secure a temporary restraining order against Wideman. Johnson said the terms of Wideman's parole mandate he report the TRO to his parole officer. He did not.

And Johnson said Wideman was supposed to inform his parole officer when Honolulu police questioned him about Loida Gabon Wideman's disappearance last week. He did not.

Johnson said Wideman's failure to inform his parole officer in each case constituted a violation of his parole. Wideman was arrested at his home in Kapolei shortly after 2 pm Friday, May 18.

Johnson said the parole board must hold a hearing within 45 and 60 days on Wideman's case. The board could set him free again or keep him incarcerated because of his recurring parole violations.

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