Department wanted to give you an update after the Memorial Day weekend on the search for Ryan Larson. Over the weekend, we were back out at walnut Creek. We had divers from Utan and Platt smith and Bennington Valley and waterloo. Again, we had a cadaver dog that uh, hit in that area. We've been concentrating efforts down there. Um, and again, we came up empty. Walnut Creek is a very dense uh, body of water with a lot of sludge in it. Um, the uh, search and rescue people had to be pulled by ropes out of the mud to get it. Uh, we had sonar out there and we really, we didn't come up with anything along the creek. Today, we focused our efforts back to what we call Ground zero. Ground Zero for us is where Ryan was last seen, Which was in the area of 83rd Harrison by the latest Aquino. We had about 80 law enforcement personnel from all over the metro area, including Red Oak, Iowa, I believe. Um, come and they were assigned different sectors, um, north of Harrison Street, we concentrated, uh, roughly from 74 Street west to about 90th north towards Ralston Avenue. Um, there's a lot of wooded area in there. There's a lot of apartments, there's a lot of tree lines, um, there's water and there's just about everything over there. We searched that area to begin with right after we started the search for Ryan. Uh, but we really didn't do a complete, uh, say, forensic type search that as we did today with all the boots on the ground. They were going door to door with flyers and, and asking people if they've seen anything what we're looking for, really. Um, is any little small piece of anything that will give us a lead to keep searching in a different area. Um, leads have been few and far between in this case. And really we're we're doing the best we can to to try to find him and uh, without really knowing where he went or where he's at. Um one thing that uh, this has brought up is the number of missing kids across the country. Again, there's a search taking place right now in the middle of Iowa for a missing 11 year old boy. We talked about the uh incident in uh in indiana last week. Uh, there was a body of uh 8 to 12 year old Hispanic male that was found in uh outside of las Vegas. Uh, it wasn't wasn't are missing missing child, but it was somebody's missing child. But it really brings to light the number of kids that are out there um that are missing. Um, and I guess as our day to day life goes by, we don't think about that. Um our day to day life does go on. We talked about, our officers are still taking calls, responding to calls for service. We have about half the department working on this case right now. The other half has to do what we do to protect and serve the citizens La vista in conjunction with our law enforcement partners from around the county. Um speaking of community partners, um Hi vis brought lunch today ivy from 96 and queue for all the rescuer or the searchers today. Again, we had about 80 of them from everywhere today. Um we take a responsibility, we have to keep those people hydrated and we kind of, we owe them for coming down to help our community out. Our community is very strong, they're taking this personally. Uh Ryan is one of our own. Um La vista is a different community from maybe some of the larger metropolitan areas where, um, it's, uh, it's a bedroom community, but it's really close knit and we're all feeling the pain of this. Um, with that, I'll take any questions that you got. Yeah. Say is that another? There's earlier, it was, it was the same dog we brought. We've used three different cadaver dogs in the area of walnut creek and the same dog has hit several times. Uh, actually, all three dogs have hit, but they've hit several times out there for another time. Yes, yes, on saturday. What about any rewards for brian Larson? Is that something that you and, you know, I think we'll probably have to go down that road. Um, crimestoppers offers rewards for arrest and conviction of, of information leading to somebody if he, uh, there was a nefarious intent here. We don't have anything criminal yet. Uh, so we're not going to utilize crimestoppers, but we have had some citizens reach out with information leading reward information leading towards, uh, finding Ryan. But we haven't formalized anything yet. Is there a threshold of when this becomes a recovery effort? Um, again, we're two weeks out now and uh, if Ryan is out there, um, I don't know. It's, it's been two weeks. We hold out hope that maybe he, he holed himself up somewhere or he's with somebody. But if he's out there alone, um, It very well could be a recovery effort. Is this kind of case precedent where you have this much effort? 50? So officers going out two weeks after he's perfectly missing. Um, it's precedent for us in La vista and I think in the metropolitan area, kids don't go missing like this. This is unusual. It doesn't happen when it does. It's an all hands on deck effort. We would do this if if the child was missing in Omaha or Bellevue or anywhere. You said you were amazing is the investigation. Looking in that direction, We've taken all angles from day one. We have a missing child and endangered missing child. We have to look at all possible uh scenarios. Uh We really don't have anything that shows that there was an abduction or there was any type of criminal intent right now. Um It's uh he was here at one point and he's gone. He also said leads her that's surprising when it when it gets to the point where nobody's seen him. We have him on video um at roughly 1 40 in the afternoon on monday May 17th and we don't see him after that and nobody's seen him. Um It's it's it's I don't know what to say. Mhm. Video that was taken little message, right? We've we've showed the video to his mother. She believes it's him. We believe it's him. Uh That has been sent to Quantico. I mentioned that last week for uh the specialist to enhance that video. Um to see what they can if they can pick, select that better. And so we're waiting on those results. It's a bit more about what the neighbor said that spotted right conflicts. I know we've all said that he's been spotted. But what do the neighbors say? We had? A neighbor said that they saw him walking westbound about 10 minutes to two on monday May 17th. And he walked back towards a dumpster and then he walked back towards his apartment. Was focused. No nothing nothing out of the ordinary according to the neighbor. So with the video at 1 40 the neighbors seeing Ryan at roughly 1 50 that's that's the last time we seen him and he was by his apartment missing. Yes. 12 with the police fairly when the right area. Mhm. On monday He left school at roughly 1152. The police responded about 1220. When they were notified, they immediately saturated the area. The officers are familiar with Ryan, several the officers that responded to know him and they were in the apartment complex in that area between La Vista West and the apartment complex almost immediately. So here's what I really want resolving. There were police in the area searching for him. Yes. Yes. Are you guys going to go back to wall and created I I don't know um if something would come up and I said that before and you know, we've gone back at this point. I really don't know the difficulty in searching it. Um And we had a dog go back again and we're not gonna go back every day with a dog because if a if a if a cadaver hit or smell is there, it's always gonna be there. So there's something in walnut creek but again it's just such a um pile I guess underneath with everything that's in there, you haven't found any of his belongings, anything. We found nothing in what we believe. Uh He had we we have no idea what he had with him, we know what he had when he left school, which was an umbrella. So right now will not create really is your best. And one of your walnut creek was one of our only leads per se because he had been there before and the mother works in that area. Um and we had a cadaver dog hit in that area. Um And other than that we're back to ground zero again. Um centering in on you know where he was last seen. And let's go back and um you know dig deeper and see what we can find. Um It's been close in the same area, it's kind of in the northeast area of walnut Creek. Um The current is gone differently in the last two weeks, the water temperature. If there's anything in there, we had thought that it may have risen to the surface by now. Um But uh have you heard nothing from this ground search yet? And how long will they be? I believe they're probably gonna wrap up captain three o'clock About 3:00. They'll wrap up again. We had around 70 people, 80 people actually uh from all over the area searching. I have not heard anything back on what they found. No. What's next next steps? Uh we're gonna see what we found from today. Uh If we found additional video that we would have to go through. There's additional witnesses that were re canvassing the same area that we started with with Ryan to see uh if somebody, if there's something that we missed. Is there is there a zura clue? Is that is that strange to you that considering the theory is that Ryan walked all over this neighborhood And No one has any video? Is that strange to you? Yeah, I would I would think somebody had to have seen something. I really do. So what does that mean to you? I don't know. It's it's puzzling. At what point do you stop? How so many people from, other agencies help me? I am this camp every single day. It was that's that's a good point. Um We're too we're two weeks into this and we're still turning over every stone that we can um If we get to a point where we have no workable information to go forward, then you probably have to start dialing it back. I don't believe we're there yet. We'll see what happens. By the end of this week, you mentioned right working, he's indiana and you mentioned today there's other in other cases, are you reaching out to them for tips? And maybe some we have and we've reached out to the behavioral analysis unit of the FBI, uh in Washington um to get an idea. Um all the information we got, we have some interviews that we've had, we've sent them information to help develop a profile of uh where Ryan may have been based on some of the information we're getting. So yeah, we're we're reaching out to whatever agencies we can that know what they're doing and have done this before. Do you feel like me video? Um, well, we're not blazing. So it's not hot. Um, but I don't believe it's cold right now for purposes of a cold case. Um, again, we're only two weeks into this. Um, no, just considering how many all want this just to reassure the public. What does that mean for those calls? Maybe for a car? We, we have officers from Omaha, Sarpy county Papillion, Ralston, Bellevue, uh, Douglas County Sheriff, uh, council bluffs, Red oak, Iowa. So they sent in the other ones Nebraska State Patrol, the ones that we've missed Papillion. Uh, they sent officers here that they could get away from some of their duties. I don't believe that we took away from the street officers that are answering the 911 calls for service. You just what? Okay. Actually seen on the kino video, the kino video shows a shot between Kentucky fried chicken and the kino. Um There's some light poles right there and it shows a figure wearing dark clothing, um kind of dancing around a little bit and hiding behind the pole. Uh We believe we see a cruiser drive by in the, in the back of the video. Uh then the figure moves to another poll. Uh that's in the parking lot. Um, and then that's about it. Then it moves out after about a minute. So what you have been saying earlier in the search that Ryan solve exactly could have been, I don't know. That's an assumption. Um, he could have been or he could have just been swinging on the pole. I don't know you think that behavior, personally, I believe is right in the videos showing. Mhm. I don't know. I don't know what his usual behavior is. No. How heavy is this way on you and every single officer that's here helping that. There's this frantic city. You guys haven't been able to resolve. You know, there's a frustrating part because we like to have conclusion. Um we like to have facts and we like to figure out what we're doing and solve it. Um These men and women have put in hours over the last two weeks, and you mentioned about uh manpower and taking other calls. We have other things that we had to put to the side to focus on this And We're Department of 40. Um, it's uh it's taken a lot of toll it's taken away from their personal life. We we kind of did a split crew over the holiday here, um, to have some people uh reenergize at home to get some resilience. Um but they're professionals and so this is what they decided they wanted to do for a job and we expect them to do this and we put a lot into these people. There's another scene case for an Iowa boy. 10 years old. 11, 11, 11. Um What does that mean? These cases look very similar. And are you getting any information on? You know what I understand? That's a very small community. It's kinda in the same area where Malik tibbets disappeared or was kidnapped. Um That's a child over there. I believe there's an all out intensive search over there that's actually in the same division of the Omaha FBI that is helping us. Um So, it's it's another uh you know, I don't know. We're still getting the same same effort from our partners that we had from the beginning. All right. Thank you. Right.