Authorities search for 10-year-old boy who disappeared in Poweshiek County
Authorities are searching for a 10-year-old boy who went missing from a mobile home park in Poweshiek County Thursday morning. Xavior Harrelson was last seen around 11 a.m. Thursday in Montezuma.
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Authorities searching for 10-year-old boy who disappeared in Poweshiek County
Authorities are searching for a 10-year-old boy who went missing from a mobile home park in Poweshiek County on Thursday morning.Xavior Harrelson was last seen around 11 a.m. Thursday in Montezuma, according to the Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office.
He was last seen wearing a red T-shirt, blue pajama pants and black high-top shoes. He has brown hair and blue eyes and is about 4 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation joined the investigation Friday.
Xavior left his home in the Spruce Village Mobile Home Park and has not been seen since, Assistant DCI Director Mitch Mortvedt said. The boy’s mother believed Xavior had gone out to play with friends, he said.
“Obviously, we’re very concerned,” Mortvedt said. “This is a young boy — he’s only 10 years old — and he’s been missing for more than 24 hours.”
The mobile home park is in northwest Montezuma, less than half a mile from Diamond Lake County Park, which Mortvedt described as a “vast wooded area.”
Mortvedt said it’s unknown if there is any criminal aspect to the boy’s disappearance, “but we are treating it like there is and deploying as many resources as we can to find him.”
“Right now, we are double- and triple-checking his friends’ houses and the places he is known to hang out. We are canvassing the immediate areas and knocking on doors and talking to people, and we’ll expand the search from there if we need to,” he said.
MEDIA - XAVIOR HARRELSON: Missing from Poweshiek County, IA since 27 May 2021 - Age 10
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