Search for autistic teen missing in Wyoming winter weather is now a recovery mission, authorities say.
Courtney said that the search for the teen's body was ongoing, but asked that volunteers cease their efforts to find him, as a snowstorm approached the area."We don’t want to have another incident where we have to send search and rescue back out," he said.
Hundreds of volunteers, more than a dozen county, state and federal agencies, horses, K-9s, fixed-wing aircraft, drones and helicopters were utilized in the desperate search for the teen. "This is about the largest-scale search that I have ever seen," Courtney said."We have utilized every single available resource that we can."
"I think we have a lot of really exhausted people, but I don’t think they would tell you that," he added."I think they would tell you that this is a very worthy cause, and we have a young man out there that we want to bring back to their family no matter what." Shortly after Joseph left his home, a witness who did not know it was him at the time saw him traveling south. Three bloodhound teams verified that the teen had traveled south by discovering barefoot prints, but the search"expanded in all directions proportionately to the amount of time that had passed," Courtney said."One of our members logged 109.
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