The search for Jake, Day Six. Investigators are continuing their search for a 16-year-old La Porte City teen with autism. Jake Wilson was last seen leaving his La Porte City home Saturday night around 9:00 p.m. He was wearing a brown jacket, dark sweatpants and cowboy boots, but left without his glasses that he normally wears. Thursday crews dedicated most of their resources to searching a six mile stretch of the Wolf Creek from La Porte City to the Cedar River, using GPS coordinates to check log jams. Kayakers and divers spent much of the day mapping the bottom of the creek and breaking up countless log jams. The plan is to continue the water search today, but crews may be limited by possible severe weather. Crews plan to continue searching the area until they #BringJakeHome. At this point, they have not ruled anything out, and are treating the situation as if it were a criminal situation so that no steps are missed.
“We are treating this as though it were a criminal situation so that we don’t miss steps, so that we process very meticulously, so that we approach very methodically and very professionally what we’ve got going on and hope that all of that methodology, all of the meticulousness, is met with, ‘he slipped in the water’, that is what our hope is, but we are still processing and pursuing this as what if he’s not there,” said Sheriff Thompson.