K-9 tracks missing 3-year-old in Van Buren County

Anna Skog
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GENEVA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A sheriff’s office K-9 tracked and found a toddler after he went missing near South Haven Monday, deputies said.

The 3-year-old had reportedly pried open a window and left on foot from a home on 68th Street south of Baseline Road in Geneva Township. When he was reported missing to the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office, he had not been seen for about a half hour and had been wearing only a diaper.

K-9 Kuno and his deputy handler were called in from off duty to help in the search. Drones from South Haven Area Emergency Services Authority and Great Lakes Drones also looked for the boy.

Kuno was able to find a footprint leading northwest from the residence and followed it for nearly a quarter of a mile toward a large body of water, the sheriff’s office said. The K-9 found the child just 50 yards from the water.

The toddler was in “good health but had minor scratches,” the sheriff’s office wrote. He was returned to his family.

He is the fifth missing child that K-9 Kuno has found.

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