Chad Allen Hester, 6, Missing in Washington County, UT (UPDATE: FOUND SAFE)
6-year-old Chad Allen Hester has been missing since 9:30am this morning.
Washington County Search and Rescue has been mobilized and is currently searching the area around the Redwood Tree Circle Park in Bloomington Hills for 6-year-old Chad Allen Hester.
“He was going to the park which is a short distance from his house, but when his mother went to look for him she could not find him,” Harding said.
Chad Allen Hester’s description:
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6-year-old male
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short blond hair
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3 1/2 feet tall
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weighs 48 pounds
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Hester was last seen wearing a bright orange shirt with a monster truck on the front
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black knee-length shorts with white pin-stripes down the sides.
Anyone with any information on Chad Allen Hester please call the St. George Police Department immediately at 634-5000.
UPDATE: Chad Allen Hester found safe with Biological Father
Search and rescue crews were called out to help locate the boy, but were called back just before 4 p.m. after the police learned the boy may be with his biological father.
Searchers spoke to the child’s paternal grandparents, who told police that Chad’s father had told them that he had the boy. Calls to courts in Utah and Washington showed no estanlishment of custody for either parent
(KUTV)