MAIA CAMPBELL: Missing In Action

By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices

Actress Maia Campbell, seen here at at Sister 2 Sister party in 2005, is being investigating by Philadelphia-area police. Maia Campbell is a wanted woman.

And not in a good way.

The bronze beauty, who bubbled up as one of Black Hollywood's "ones to watch' during the 1990s, is in the center of a Philadelphia-area police investigation.

Mount Airy's Kevin Taylor filed a police report Monday accusing Campbell, with stealing his Jeep in Germantown, reports 'The Philadelphia Daily News.'

"According to Taylor and his friend Steve Johnson, the pair left Campbell and the car keys alone in the white 1998 Jeep Cherokee registered to Taylor's father, Christ Taylor, as they went into Johnson's home to retrieve musical gear. When they came outside minutes later, Campbell and the car were gone, they said."

What in the world?

The eldest daughter of late best-selling authoress BeBe Moore Campbell, who co-starred with LL Cool J on the series 'In the House,' has been rumored to get into sticky situations over the years.

But this is much.

A near ten-year old Jeep?

Cherokee?

Come on now.

Campbell and her mother, who succumbed to brain cancer last November --one day after her 30th birthday -- were rumored to be estranged throughout the years. She is believed to be the subject of her last book '72 Hour Hold,' which deals with mentall illness.

In an interview with AOL Black Voices, one of her last, the NAACP Image Award winning author commented, "watching my loved one become violent and an incoherent stranger certainly tested my faith. My very close family member has bipolar disorder, which is a mood disorder - a disease of the brain."

Actress Maia Campbell pictured here at a 2005 music industry event in Beverly Hills. Her daughter became fodder for internet chatroom and black gossip blogs when an alleged videoclip of her naked and singing surfaced.

Gossip website Mediatakeout.com went the extra step and alleged that the clip was made in exchange for crack.

"Sources say [she] has been floating around Germantown of late and doesn't seem to be in a good way," reports the 'News.'

Back to the Jeep Cherokee:

Taylor and Johnson said they each left messages on Campbell's cell phone, but she did not return the calls. Johnson befriended Campbell and invited her Monday to hang out with him and Taylor.

Northwest Detectives are investigating the auto theft.

Perhaps she should take up writing like her gifted mother. Her first book should be a memoir, titled 'A.P.B.'

Or 'Grand Theft Auto.'

Anyone with info on the whereabouts of the car or Campbell are encouraged to call 215-686-3353.