FOUND!

30 cops make full-court press with chopper, dogs and ATVs to find missing North Glengarry boys

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17 September 2008

Posted By MICHAEL PEELING

The OPP found two North Glengarry youths reported missing Monday night nearly 25 kilometres from home, after almost a day of searching the surrounding woods and farmland.

Thirty officers from the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry detachments -and as far away as Prescott-Russell, Prince Edward County and Grenville -scoured a large swath of the township for 18 hours before finding the 14-year-old and 12-year-old boys, walking along a fence line east of Martintown at approximately 3 p. m. Tuesday.

Officers, including those in a helicopter, on foot with K-9 unit dogs, riding ATVs and driving cruisers searched from County Road 20 to 34 and from Kenyon Concession Road 1 to 18 for the brothers.

OPP Const. Peter Robertson said the search had yielded no signs of the boys shortly before noon. The boys were last seen near their residence on Kenyon Concession Road 1 around 5 p. m. when their foster mother left to visit the pharmacy.

Gray said the boys were unsupervised for at least 30 minutes, but no more than 45 before their foster father, arrived home.

The boys were told to do their chores while she was away.

"This is unbelievable," the foster mother said Tuesday morning as she waited anxiously at home with officers. "I can't believe this is happening."

She said she couldn't imagine why the boys hadn't returned, adding there had been no argument with them before she left.

She feared they had fallen in a lake or gotten stuck in a bog, but found some relief in the news neighbours had told the OPP they may have seen or heard the boys near Martintown.

The foster father said the boys had lived with the couple, who married three years ago, for most of that time, but she had cared for them herself for a total of five years.

The two boys had been left home alone before without incident. .

After the officers found the boys, they were transported to the Lancaster OPP detachment, where they were checked out by paramedics. Robertson said both boys are in good health.

Why the boys were missing all night has yet to be determined by the OPP.

Robertson expects to be able to provide an explanation today once the OPP has had more time to investigate. 

September 16, 2008 — There are feelings of relief now that two Glengarry boys have been found. Fourteen-year-old Daniel Leger and his 12-year-old brother Josh were found around 3pm this afternoon in a field on County Road 18 east of Martintown. They had not been seen since supper time yesterday after they were asked to do chores on the family farm south of Alexandria. The boys' foster father says he is relieved but there are still questions including why the boys took off. Robert Gray tells AM 1220 News the boys may have become frustrated after a family talk about work and responsibility.  Police searched the area for 18 hours after they received a call around 9pm last night. Both of the boys are safe and sound.