Community: The search for missing
five-year-old boy moves to Santa Barbara today
LA Co. Sheriff's Altadena Mountain Rescue Team,
Special Enforcement Bureau and several LA County search and rescue teams
assisted with today's search of Lake Cuchuma area, Santa Barbara County
search for missing 5 year old.
From KTLA news:
Investigators returned to Lake Cachuma in Santa Barbara County early
Saturday using unmanned aircraft to resume the search for a 5-year-old
South Pasadena boy who has been missing since April.
LASD officials used unmanned aircraft on June 10, 2017 at Lake Cachuma to
search for a missing 5-year-old boy.
The search began at 7 a.m. with investigators looking for evidence
connected to the disappearance of Aramazd Andressian Jr., who was
reported missing by his mother on April 22 after his father failed to
return him to a planned custody exchange.
The boy’s father, 35-year-old Aramazd Andressian Sr., told investigators
he took his son to the Lake Cachuma Recreation Area the day before he
disappeared. A dive team, police dogs, and a helicopter searched Lake
Cachuma a few days after the boy’s disappearance, but found no evidence
indicating Andressian Jr. was there.
It was unclear what prompted investigators to head back to Lake Cachuma
to ramp up the search on Saturday, but the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s
Department said there is evidence leading investigators to believe
Andressian Sr. also traveled around the Lake Cachuma area near
Solvang and Nojoqui Falls with his son.
The boy was last seen on video footage leaving Disneyland with his father
about 1 a.m. on April 21. A witness told police she saw the father and
son while she camping the next day at Lake Cachuma.
Andressian Sr. was found unconscious in Arroyo Park in South Pasadena the
day his son was reported missing. The father told detectives he had taken
his son to the park that morning as he waited for the nearby golf course
to open, but did not remember any other details about what happened to
his son.
The boy was not with him when authorities arrived at the park and has not
been seen or heard from since.
Andressian Sr. was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment and child
abduction on April 22 after giving contradictory statements to
detectives, but he was released from custody three days later after the
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department chose not to pursue charges
against him.
In May investigators served a search warrant at the home of Andressian
Sr.’s mother in Montebello and seized several items of evidence.
Andressian Jr.’s mother, Ana Estevez, said she last saw her son on April
15 during a Skype video call when he was with his father and has since
pleaded for her son’s return.
Andressian Jr.’s parents are in the middle of a divorce and have shared
custody of their son.
A $20,000 reward has been offered for information related to the case,
and a GoFundMe page has been established.
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