Jerry Perdomo, 31, Fla. murdered in Maine

[Lady Cop]

Bangor Daily News



Jerry Perdomo Sr. tacks a missing person poster on a telephone pole outside the Bangor Fire Department's central station on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012



Jerry Perdomo Sr. (right), along with his daughter Skye Ramos search part of the wooded area along the former Bangor landfill on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. Looking for Jerry Perdomo Jr. who disappeared Feb. 16, 2012.

BANGOR, Maine — The father and half sister of a Florida man missing since Feb. 16 arrived Friday afternoon at the downtown bus station from New York City. After a stop at the Bangor police station, Jerry Perdomo Sr. and Skye Ramos headed north on Main Street, stopping at every shop they could and asking to put a color poster with a picture of Seminole County, Fla., firefighter Jerry Perdomo in a window. As they headed out of downtown on State Street, they stopped at nearly every utility pole to tape posters.

By 9 p.m. Friday, they had made their way to Appleby’s Restaurant near the intersection of Hogan Road and Stillwater Avenue. A waitress there took them to a table where Perdomo’s fellow firefighters were having supper with members of the Bangor Fire Department.

The snow was not a welcome sight for the elder Pordomo, his daughter said Saturday. He cried Friday night, Ramos told a Bangor Daily News photographer, distraught that the snow would cover up clues.

Assistant Bangor Police Chief Peter Arno said in an email late Saturday that there were no new developments in the case.

Flanked by news media from Bangor and Orlando, Fla., Seminole County firefighters Troy Todak and Dave Williams along with local firefighters Clifford “Kip” O’Brien, John Higgins, Jared Willey and Andy Willigar on Saturday afternoon searched the woods along Kittridge Road opposite the closed landfill. They went 50 to 100 feet off the road looking for signs that Perdomo might have been there.

They found nothing, but searching for their “brother” was important, Todak said.

“I can’t go back to Florida and tell my guys we didn’t look,” he said as the sun began to set.

Williams said they want to get Perdomo’s face before the public.

“Maybe somebody will see a flier and remember seeing him,” he said. “We went out to a truck stop [Dysart’s] to put up a flier and a worker there remembered seeing him in the past few days.”

Williams said the man was not sure exactly when he had seen Perdomo, but knew it was recently. The tip was passed on to police.

Williams said that he and other firefighters knew Perdomo often visited Maine but did not know if there was a particular reason he traveled north or if he spent time with anyone in particular while in the state.