Hours after J'Asiah Mitchell's father was arrested for allegedly lying about the 2-year-old's disappearance earlier this week, Georgia police began draining a small lake.
Artavious North, 23, was arrested Thursday evening for allegedly lying about his son J'Asiah Mitchell's disappearance."I’m overwhelmed. I’m tired, exhausted, scared," J'Asiah's mother said, according to FOX 5 after she, and the boy’s grandmother, had initially given a public plea for kidnappers to return him unharmed following North’s alleged lie.
The DeKalb County Police Homicide Unit, which handles missing person’s cases, said after North's arrest it is turning over the investigation to the East Point Police Department.J'Asiah was last seen at the East Point apartment complex, police said, according to WSB-TV. "It’s really critical. This is a 2-year-old boy," Ischa Njoku of the East Point Police Department told WSB."We have to find this boy."DeKalb County Police Homicide Unit, which handles missing person’s cases, said the East Point Police Department is now in charge of the investigation, FOX 5 reported.
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