Shortly before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, the Monterey Police Department in Berkshire County requested assistance from the Massachusetts State Police with a search for an 8-year-old boy who had been reported missing.
Police said that the child was missing since approximately 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning from an Airbnb house that he was staying at with his family.
The search involved members from:
- State Police-Lee Barracks;
- Lieutenant and sergeant from Troop B Headquarters;
- Monterey Police;
- Monterey Fire;
- Great Barrington Police;
- Williamstown Police;
- Pittsfield Police;
- State Police K9 units;
- Barrington Police K9 units;
- Troopers from the State Police Special Emergency Response Team (SERT).
According to police, shortly before 11:40 a.m. on Tuesday morning, SERT troopers Dan Fanion and Robert Berrena, along with a local resident who was assisting in the search, located the boy along the wood line behind a home on Fairview Road.
The boy has since been reunited with his parents safely.
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