The search continues for a missing 4-year-old from Michigan with the addition of cadaver dogs on Sunday.
Police are searching for Carnel Chamberlain, 4, who was outside his home on 340 E. Tomah Road in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. near the pool and tribal campground area of the Isabella Indian Reservation when he went missing.
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Frank Cloutier, the Tribal spokesman said the team was planning to search the area of the Isabella Reservation with the cadaver dogs on Sunday afternoon.
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Jaimee Chamberlain, 21, realized her son was missing after returning home from her job at Isabella’s restaurant at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort on Thursday.
“I just want him home, I don’t care what happened,” Jaimee told The Morning Sun, while she sat outside waiting for news. “My son’s not a wanderer.”
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Fire Department initially have been searching for Carnel and now the police and FBI have joined the search, reports the Detroit News.
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“The intensive, highly organized search continues with the assistance and cooperation of multi-jurisdictional law enforcement agencies and fire departments from several counties including conservation specialists from the Little Traverse Bay Band from the Upper Peninsula. The search team also includes well over one hundred citizen volunteers from the local area,” said the public relations release.
“We have community members and rescue agencies searching a grid from Nimke to Shepherd Road,” said Marcella Hadden, the public relations manager at the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. “Our experts are focusing on this area because of the denseness of the vegetation.”
Jaimee told The Morning Sun that her aunt had seen a van in the area at the time of Carnel’s disappearance.
“One thing I was told is that my aunt saw a dark green or black van with lights on the top in our area at that time. The police said they will look through the security footage at the casino, but I don’t know if that’s happened,” said Jaimee.
Initially no foul play was suspected, but on Friday, a statement released by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Police stated they believe Carnel’s disappearance is suspicious.
“In the matter of missing four year old, Carnel Chamberlain, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Police believe his disappearance is suspicious. The Tribal Police are now focusing investigative efforts on the boyfriend of the child’s mother. The mother has been fully cooperative in this developing investigation. The boyfriend, however, has not fully cooperated with the investigation, thus far.”
Jaimee’s Facebook page states Anthony M. Bennett as her boyfriend.
Since that release yesterday, Cloutier said that “he’s become somewhat more calm,” reports The Morning Sun.
Carnel is a member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and is 3 feet tall, dark green eyes, and recently had his hair cut short and it is no longer long, as seen in some of the photos circulating. He was wearing a dark-colored Angry Birds t-shirt and dark blue or green shorts with green trim.
