PERINTON, NY — POLICE FROM CITY and state agencies spent Thursday searching the High Acres Landfill in Monroe County for Jacob Pritchett, an 11-year-old autistic, nonverbal boy from Brooklyn missing for several weeks, 13WHAM reports. The search follows a Sept. 25 welfare check at his mother’s Howard Avenue apartment, where she denied having a child. Officers later found Jacob’s birth certificate listing her as the mother. Investigators have scoured the building, backyard and nearby dumpsters, with no sign of the boy. The NYPD confirmed that the mother is under psychiatric evaluation.
The landfill search, more than 300 miles from Brooklyn, reflects new leads in the case, though authorities have not disclosed further details.
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