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Reward doubled Sixers add $25,000 for safe return of Erving's son
Posted: Thursday June 15, 2000 10:05 PM
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The reward for the safe return of Cory Erving was doubled Thursday to $50,000, with the Philadelphia 76ers matching the $25,000 reward already offered by NBA great Julius Erving. Cory Erving, 19, and with a history of drug problems, was last seen by his family May 28, running an errand to buy bread for a picnic. The Seminole County Sheriff's Office reported the reward increase. Officers said investigators have received more than 300 tips through a special hot line set up for the search. But they repeated that the most credible tip they've received so far remains a reported Saturday sighting of Cory Erving with an unidentified woman with blonde hair in Altamonte Springs, just north of Orlando. Before the disappearance, Erving's younger son was working to put drug use behind him and earn his high school equivalency diploma after years of dealing with a learning disability. Sheriff Donald Eslinger said Wednesday that Cory Erving might have had a drug-use relapse "and may be abusing crack cocaine." Julius Erving, executive vice president of the Orlando Magic, made a nationally televised appeal Tuesday with his wife and their three other children for help in finding the teen-ager. Cory Erving has run away at least once before, according to Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Olson. Olson said the Erving family filed a missing persons report for Cory in January 1999, a disappearance that began when he ran away from a drug rehabilitation center. Cory Erving was arrested in early April for possession of alcohol by a person under 21. In July 1998, Cory and his brother Cheo, 27, were arrested in Altamonte Springs. Police stopped the two in a parking lot about 3 a.m., near a car with a door open that appeared to have its glove compartment rifled. Police said they found a crack pipe in Cheo Erving's pocket. Cory was charged with burglary of a motor vehicle -- a felony -- and loitering and prowling, but charges were dropped in juvenile court.
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