12-year-old with possible autism reported missing near OH-49, Convoy OH


Police are searching for a missing 12-year-old child who left home overnight near east of State Route 49. The child may have undiagnosed autism. Family found signs he had left, including a mattress outside his bedroom window and a barricaded door. Authorities are checking the nearby area including windmill sites and have requested helicopter assistance.
Audio|Source: Van Wert County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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I'm sending you a missing person in an instant break.
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Good.
00:06
We have a 12-year-old out of Paulding.
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Pauline went direct with intel requesting a helicopter.
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I believe they're going to be en route.
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Okay, I'll be in route to the area.
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Network, did they give any direction of travel or possible location for six?
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They did not.
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I'm going to call back and keep finding it a little bit further.
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Okay,
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when you call them this advisor, they want me to set up or any area, they want me to check first.
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Okay.
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201.
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Signal fix doesn't have anything to real high up.
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Okay.
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790. Allet Corrections break for ending mileage.
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Go ahead.
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2858.0.
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No caller.
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Good
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It's possible single text left early morning
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He was recently adopted
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Possibly undiagnosed autism, great
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Good
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They noticed he was gone when they found a mattress outside his bedroom window And found that he had barricated the door
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Okay, I'm at the intersection Do we have an address of where he fled from?
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I was just told the (number withheld) blocks let me see if I can get an exact.
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Okay, just put me in the area.
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I'll look for 6.
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Definitely.
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One-night eight, it looks like the (number withheld) blocks going to be east of State Route 49.
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Okay.
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You might want to just start checking some of the windmill sites in case you walk down one of those driveways and it's just sitting at the base of the windows.
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Okay.
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12-09, you back...
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I'll be able here.
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I need that address to (number withheld), County Road 124.
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Okay, honor.
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