Extensive search continues for missing north Louisiana boy

Published 9:23 am Thursday, April 19, 2018

LISBON, La. (AP) — Officials continue to search for a 4-year-old boy who has been missing since April 5 in rural north Louisiana.

Claiborne Parish Sheriff Ken Bailey tells local media that officials found nothing after draining a pond Monday looking for Rondreiz “Junior” Phillips. The boy went missing while playing outside his home in Lisbon.

Divers had already searched that and other ponds.

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Authorities have also used drones, helicopters, cadaver dogs and volunteer search teams to look for Phillips.

Wednesday, a local unnamed business owner doubled the reward for information to $10,000 from the $5,000 the FBI was already offering.

Family members say Phillips wandered off outside while his stepfather may have been working on a vehicle. His mother, who was inside the family’s mobile home, reported him missing an hour later.