Aurora Police Department Press Conference 1.2.17 @ 1:45pm, via Periscope Aurora Police Dept.
(My transcript.)
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Amber Alert will be issued shortly due to passive of time and impending inclement weather.
Today is day 3.
Resources being used: Canvassing, interviews, residential and commercial videos (please call tip lines if you have videos,) entire command staff involved including Chief Metz, NCMEC, Aurora PD, Westminster PD, CBI, FBI, Rocky Mountain Safe Streets, Joint Terrorism Task Force, volunteer citizens, Aurora Public Schools, etc.
Students returning to school this week. Boy attends Dartmouth Elementary School. Mental health professionals will be available at schools.
Citizens stop searching now because bloodhounds are out. APD will notify via social media when searchers can go back out.
Morning and evening press briefings every day now. APD should be primary source of info.
Questions/Answers:
1. Active/ongoing investigation.
2. Wandered off once from school.
3. Not certain if social services has been involved before.
4. Schools using technology to notify parents of updates.
5. Bodies of water - not yet out on but around them.
6. No info on father of boy.
7. FBI going door to door.
8. More thorough neighborhood canvassing today.
9. There are 3 tip lines set up.
10. Whereabout before reported as missing, has he been seen over the break - officer not sure.
11. Concerned about weather change.
12. Boy has siblings.
13. 2 1/2 mile radius search.
14. Volunteers need to stop searching NOW due to bloodhounds. They will let us know when they are ready for volunteers to go back out.
15. No documented instances of boy running away from home.
16. No foul play suspected. Investigation still going on so not sure if Mom will face any charges.
17. Believe boy left house on his own.
18. Not sure if Mom will address the media again because of how shaken she is by this.
19. Amber Alert coming later today. CBI agrees and will issue it today. National exposure = good.
20. Everyone understands that everyone is involved in investigation.
21. Don't know if Mom has taken polygraph.
22. Unsure if Dad has been contacted.
23. FBI is here because they are federal partners. No info on whether boy has crossed state lines.
24. There will be another presser later today.
25. Sex offenders - natural part of the investigation. No further info.
26. Twitter and FB to find out what time pressers will be.
27. APD should be primary source of info.
28. Call tip line if you think you see or hear something or have video.
(The officer said she would provide tip lines at end of press conference but video was cut before that could happen.)