Police deploy cadaver dogs fir the second time in search for missing baby in Ohio County.
OHIO COUNTY, Ky. (WEVV) — New information released during search of missing 8-month-old Miya Rudd.
The baby was reported missing last week from a home in Reynolds Station, Kentucky.
Kentucky State Police shared Tuesday that community tips led them to search an area that had been previously searched along Hardin Lane. This also includes a wooded area behind the home.
KSP also shared history of the family before this past week. Parents Cage Rudd and Tesla Tucker, along with grandfather Ricky Smith, were arrested in connection to abandonment of the child.
According to KSP, the family already had three children taken from their home by the Kentucky Child Protection Branch prior to a month ago. Other family members called the branch in early May, asking for a welfare check on the baby.
When officers made the welfare check, they located a massive amount of drugs in the home but, no sign of the family. The parents and grandfather were located in an Owensboro hotel late last week. They face numerous drug possession charges in Daviess County to go along with the charges they face in Ohio County.
None of the family arrested so far in the case has cooperated with law enforcement in any way, according to KSP.
The search on Tuesday includes cadaver dogs and drones looking in the area for Miya. KSP said if nothing comes from the search, they will turn to a "more scientific approach" in the investigation.
“There’s a variety of debris that we are seeing in those ditches. The cadaver dogs will be looking in the debris as well as looking for any type of signs of disturbance of the earth,” says Trooper Corey King with the Kentucky State Police.
The parents and grandfather will be in the Daviess County court tomorrow for their preliminary hearings for the drug charges they face.
