Tuesday, members of the Walnut Ridge Police Department, Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office, Arkansas State Police, Black Rock Police, Walnut Ridge Fire Department, Arkansas State Parks and Arkansas Game And Fish met at the Walnut Ridge Police Complex to begin the search for missing Sidney Randall, missing since Saturday night.
Lawrence County Dispatch took calls all throughout the night with tips about the possible whereabouts, those that were able to be followed up on by deputies and police officers through the night were handled, others had to wait until first light.
Walnut Ridge Officers responded to several areas in and around Walnut Ridge throughout the day while Deputies from the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office with the use of several ATV’s and UTV’s checkrd out other possible leads in the county. Officers traveled traveled the length of Running Water Creek from Lawrence 516 all the way to Lawrence 438.
Member’s of the Sheriff’s Dive and Recovery Team, assisted by Black Rock and Hoxie Officers began the task of dragging and wading the Running Water Creek from north of the crime scene all the way to Hwy 63. Throughout the day, deputies and city officers received tips and those locations had to be searched and ruled out. The Sheriff’s Boat was launched in the Black River early Tuesday morning after receiving a tip that a vehicle matching the description of the suspect vehicle was seen in the area of Lawrence 500 and 501.
The American Red Cross set up the Walnut Ridge Police Complex to feed searchers from all over the state that have converged on Walnut Ridge to assist in the search. Nothing turned up in Tuesday’s search but according to sources, the search will resume Wednesday with the hopes of new tips overnight.
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