Col. Bill Puett
The Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office has interviews planned with three children who said they were abducted Tuesday evening.
Colonel Bill Puett says the call originally came to the city after the youngsters’ parents reported them missing. Then the kids turned up along King Hill Avenue near Hugh Street around 8 p.m. They were soaking wet.
“The city originally got the call, then they thought it might have ended up in the county,” Colonel Puett said. “We’ve got three kids between five and eleven.”
Detectives are still trying to clarify the story.
“There were some issues about whether or not there was an abudction,” Puett said. “They’re not sure. They’re still working on trying to figure that out.”
The youngsters claimed that a man in a white, four-door pickup truck abducted them, took them out into the county and then threw them into a pond.
“It was just kind of reported that they were abducted, and then were thrown in a pond,” Puett said. “They said pond, but we think they were coming from the area by that creek down there.”
Col. Puett says they are planning to have the children interviewed at the Northwest Children’s Advocacy Center.
“We want to make sure we investigate this completely. We don’t, obviously, want to discount anything. That’s why we run a full investigation on it.”
If you have information that might help, you should call the Sheriff’s Department at the Communications Center at (816) 271-4777 or the TIPS Hotline at (816) 238-TIPS.