OCT 1, 2020
’East Texas for the Missing’ provides search teams for baby; father uncooperative
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Today teams that The East Texas for the Missing uses were brought in from Houston ... more than 50 people were out on foot and on the water.
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Those resources included K9′s, drones, ATV’s, boats, and people on foot.
“We had the Texas Game Warden and our patrol captain in the Neches River, along with the search team had people in the Neches River,” Dickson said. “They’re just searching for any kind of lead. That be a diaper, clothing, the baby itself. Anything and everything that could possibly be evidence, or something that would lead us to the baby.”
To Dickson’s knowledge they have not found anything as of this afternoon. Officials are still not receiving cooperation from the father.
“I have since spoke to his attorney, and I’ve spoke to the DA, and we’re trying to arrange it to where we can all meet and try to work out something to get his cooperation,” Dickson said.
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“If the father did do something with the baby to harm the baby or to hide the baby and it is deceased, he’s placed it on some property somewhere in our community,” Dickson said. “And I ask that the community stays vigilant while they’re out and about looking around.”
Dickson says the father is their lead suspect but they are not ruling anything out at this time.
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