He is described as white with blond hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a yellow Mickey Mouse shirt, black pants and Paw Patrol shoes.<\/p>\n
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Johnathan Everett Boley.Alabama Law Enforcement Agency<\/p>\n
The Walker County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a call about the missing child around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sheriff Nick Smith told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n
Smith said it was reported to authorities that Johnathan was with his 6-year-old brother and their dog when he disappeared. It was not immediately clear where his older brother is.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement searched Johnathan’s home and launched an air and ground search using helicopters with thermal detection and canines that went until 3 a.m. and resumed later Thursday morning, Smith said.<\/p>\n
Explosives-related charge<\/p>\n
Smith told reporters that explosive devices were found on the child’s father’s property during the search and law enforcement had to \u201ctake care\u201d of the devices before they could execute a thorough search warrant.<\/p>\n
The father was arrested on an explosives-related charge, Smith said. He said the charge had \u201cnothing to do\u201d with the search for Johnathan, but \u201cit is still a factor that is hindering our search,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n
Smith described the father, whom he did not name, as being formerly in the military.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear why explosives were at the home. <\/p>\n
\u201cNeighbors have said they\u2019ve been hearing explosions for weeks now. They didn\u2019t really know where it was coming from. The morning before the [missing person] report came in, one of the neighbors reported that they heard an explosion about 4 a.m. that morning, they just didn\u2019t know where it came from. Can\u2019t say that that\u2019s in any kind of connection to the missing child,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n
Johnathan’s parents are separated, and the child’s mother moved to Florida last year. As part of the custody agreement the father was given five days a year for visitation, Smith said. <\/p>\n
The mother went to Alabama from Florida on Wednesday evening and is cooperating with authorities, according to the sheriff. The father was interviewed by the FBI on Wednesday, he said.<\/p>\n
The search <\/p>\n
The area where Johnathan was reported missing is heavily wooded and rural. <\/p>\n
Smith said there isn’t any indication the child is in the woods, but they continue to search the area. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got no thermal, no imagery from the helicopter and drones,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
Smith also noted that the dog Johnathan was last with is still missing. <\/p>\n
\u201cTalking to one of the neighbors, that dog showed up pretty much every day on their game cameras at their corn feeder. The last time that he has the dog on his camera was on the 26th, the afternoon of the 26th,\u201d the sheriff said. <\/p>\n
At least eight potential explosive devices were found across the street from the father\u2019s home in a wooded area, halting the volunteer search effort, Smith said. <\/p>\n
The devices were later cleared as not explosive, and volunteers can recommence helping with the search at 7 a.m. Friday, he said.<\/p>\n
Smith commended the support in the search saying 126 first responders from multiple nearby agencies and 161 volunteers helped cover over 500 acres on Thursday alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search is underway in Alabama for a 4-year-old boy who has been missing since Wednesday morning, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-383021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}