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Police Continue Search For Missing Buckeye Boy, 10

Jesse Wilson
Buckeye Police Department
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Jesse Wilson

Police continue to search for a missing Buckeye boy who slipped out of his bedroom window Sunday night. Volunteers joined the search again this morning for 10-year-old Jesse Wilson, but were called off due to the heat. 

"We’re concerned that he’s been gone for over three days now, " said Sgt. Jason Weeks is with the Buckeye Police Department. "We’ve got heat warnings going out today and tomorrow. You know, our number one priority is to find Jesse and take him home safely to his family."

Weeks said Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue joined in today’s search. The FBI was also notified and they’ve sent a detective to help with the investigation.

Wilson is 4 feet tall, weighs 60 pounds and was last seen wearing a red shirt, shorts, black socks and black shoes.

KJZZ senior field correspondent Kathy Ritchie has 20 years of experience reporting and writing stories for national and local media outlets — nearly a decade of it has been spent in public media.