Found Ground search paused until morning for 2YO Brooksville boy who wandered away from home

[Sugar Cookie]

The ground search has been suspended after nightfall for a Brooksville 2-year-old who went missing Thursday morning, but Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis said deputies would continue searching from the air using infrared cameras.

State law enforcement issued a Florida Missing Child Alert for Joshua "JJ" Rowland who appears to have wondered away from his home between 10 and 11 a.m. Thursday.

At least 50 first responders from surrounding agencies searched the area around his home for hours using horses, drones, helicopters K-9s and ATVs.

During a 5 p.m. press conference, Sheriff Nienhuis said the child still had not been found during the large-scale search of the area around Cheever Road and Yontz Road in northern Brooksville.

Ground search paused until morning for 2-year-old Brooksville boy who wandered away from home

The ground search has been suspended after nightfall for a Brooksville 2-year-old who went missing Thursday morning, but Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis said deputies would continue searching from the air using infrared cameras.

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It's believed the toddler left home Thursday in the area of Cheever and Yontz roads while the parent was asleep, according to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office.

During a news conference Thursday evening, Sheriff Al Neinhuis explained that JJ was reported missing just before noon. A witness reportedly saw the toddler playing with dogs in his front yard at around 10:40 a.m.


Neinhuis says a relative dropped off the toddler, who was sleeping at the time, at the house around 9:45 a.m. His caregiver was still sleeping at the time too.

When JJ's mother woke up from a nap, he was already gone.

“As of right now, we have no indication if he was abducted or just wandered off, we have no clue what happened…," the sheriff said.

Toddler in Brooksville still missing as Hernando deputies continue search

More than 50 deputies with the Hernando County Sheriff's Office have been out looking for the child, along with K-9s from multiple surrounding counties and drones.

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[thuumpr]

Oh you need to go back and talk with that witness again.
A 2yo alone playing with dogs and nothing was done?

 

[cubby]

You don't drop a 2 year old, even if he is asleep, off at a house where the person supposed to be taking care of him is asleep!!!!! Might as well have left him all alone, would have been the same thing. A 2yo wants to do all the things he is not supposed to do any other time, so yeah there's no telling what happened to him or where he wandered off to. Stupidity is alive and well and lives at that house!

 

[Reeseshaven]

He was found safe

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Missing Hernando County toddler found alive

"It is a good day in Hernando County," Sheriff Al Nienhuis said.

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[thuumpr]

THUMBS UP!

HOORAH to the Marine that found him.

 

[Sejanus]

Astonishing.

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Little dude is going to be a firecracker. I hope they don't leave him on his own again.