Unadilla Township Boy's Hunting Excursion Leads to Large SearchUnadilla Township Boy's Hunting Excursion Leads to Large Search

3/28/14 - A Unadilla Township boy’s decision to go hunting but failing to tell his parents resulted in a large scale search Thursday morning. Police Chief David Russell tells WHMI the 11-year-old boy left his Unadilla Township home without telling anyone to go hunting, taking with him a .22 caliber rifle. Russell says the boy likely left sometime between 8 and 9am and was gone at least a couple of hours before his parents determined he was not in the house. The Unadilla Township Police Department was assisted in the search by a Canine Unit from the Pinckney Police Department, Deputies from the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department while the Unadilla and Putnam Township Fire Department’s used heat sensing cameras and a 6-wheel ORV to check wooded areas while the canine unit searched another wooded area. A State Police Helicopter was also on stand-by. Russell says the boy was eventually located nearly 5 miles away, walking toward his grandfather’s house. He was said to be un-injured, with the exception of blisters on his feet from the long walk. (JM)