Girlfriend of American ex-cop missing in Greece ‘totally disgusted’ with locals for doing almost nothing to find him
The girlfriend of a missing retired California cop is slamming Greek authorities for seemingly doing as little as possible to find him — forcing loved ones to rush to the Medi♛terranean nation to mount their own rescue mission.
“I’m totally disgusted with the way we’ve been treated,” Debbie Leshane told The Post on Monday.
Former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Albert Calibet, 59, disappeared last Tuesday while hiking on the island of Amorgos — one of seven tourists to go missing or die in Greece this month.
“Albert has been a first responder since he was 25 years old. Everybody deserves to be searched for. But he really, honestly deserves it,” Leshane said in a call from the island.
She traveled 32 hours to Greece along with his brother Oliver an✱d two members of the LA C💧ounty Search and Rescue team.
Along with three local friends and family members, they’ve formed their own search team, and they’re spending every waking minute combing the scorching hot cliffs for him.
Temperatures on the 💯island have topped 100 degrees in the past week.
“We actually literally had splinters going through our shoes into our feet. It’s ridiculous, it’s the seventh day and we’re beyond panic,” she said.
Leshane said she was shocked at the bare-minimum efforts local authorities have made to find Calibet. She said they flew a helicopter in the are♏a for just two h📖ours the day after he went missing.
Promises to bring in drones, sniffer dogs and more chopper searcཧhes have gone unfu🤡lfilled.
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Leshane and Calibet’s brother Oliver offered to pay for Greek authorities to fly helicopters and use search dogs, but those requests have also been rebuffed.
Leshane said sea🔯rch dogs “could💛 have saved his life,” already.
Leshane and Calibet’s friends have been starting their searches every day at 5 a.m., and they end late at night with strategizing their next search and rescue hike.
But, she said Greek authorities don’t seem to work past sundown.
Their attitude seems to be, “let’s just go to bed and let Albert sleep outside,” she said.
Calibet, a seasoned hi🌠ker with a dual citizenship in Greece, left for a hike around 7 a.m. on Tuesday and did not arrive at his destination as expected about𒁏 four hours later, .
His last kn▨own correspondence was a text of a trail sign he sent to his sister.
Calibet also made a call to Leshane as he was about to embark on his hike. She knew something was wrong when he didn’t respond to her texts after she woke up t♏he following morning.
Leshane said she has also tried to ask authorities for his cell phone records to see if Calibet made any other communication attempts, but have been to🔥ld it is illegal fig𓃲ure search his phone location records.
Leshane has also slammed the US Embassy in Athens for failin𝔍g to help them mount a more aggressive 🃏search effort.
✨“The United States also dropped the ball,” 💖she said.
Still, se๊ven days out, the searchers remain vi💟gilant for Calibet and has continued to exhaust every effort to locate their loved one.
“I’m gonna stay here until they find the love of my life,” said Leshane.