Police searching landfill near Rochester for missing 11-year-old boy from Brooklyn
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Police are now searching a landfill in western New York for a missing 11-year-old boy from Brooklyn.
Drone video shows police activity at the High Acres Landfill in Perinton, New York, which is about 12 miles from Rochester.
Officials are looking for 11-year-old Jacob Pritchette, who is non-verbal and has autism.
When child services went to his mother's apartment in Brownsville to conduct a wellness check on September 25, the 50-year-old woman claimed that she didn't have a child. ACS later recovered a birth certificate with the woman as the listed mother during their check.
Prichette's mother was taken to the hospital for evaluation as an emotionally disturbed person.
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