{"id":821037,"date":"2021-09-27T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=821037"},"modified":"2021-09-27T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T21:44:13","slug":"brian-laundrie-search-to-be-scaled-down-fbi-to-lead-targeted-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-laundrie-search-to-be-scaled-down-fbi-to-lead-targeted-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Laundrie Search To Be Scaled Down, FBI To Lead \u2018Targeted\u2019 Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrian-laundrie-search-to-be-scaled-down-fbi-to-lead-targeted-search%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=821037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/252C4CC5-65C4-45E8-87DB-181382471490_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The search for Brian Laundrie is set to be scaled down after authorities have searched a nature reserve in Florida without finding the man who is a person of interest in the death of his fianc\u00e9e, Gabby Petito, 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/09\/27\/brian-laundrie-florida-search-scaled-back-gabby-petito\/5881211001\/\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> by USA Today:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The FBI is now leading the search that will be \u201ctargeted based on intelligence,\u201d North Port Police spokesperson Josh Taylor said Monday.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Over 75 law enforcement personnel from 16 agencies got involved in the efforts last week&nbsp;searching in&nbsp;the massive Carlton Reserve after&nbsp;<span class=\"s1\">a federal arrest warrant was put out<\/span>&nbsp;due to events that occurred after Petito\u2019s death.&nbsp;\u201cAuthorities used&nbsp;a diver unit, dogs, drones and ATV vehicles to search the wetlands,\u201d the outlet noted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to see those large-scale types of efforts this week,\u201d Taylor told USA Today. \u201cHopefully, water will lower in areas hard to currently access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also had&nbsp;reportedly&nbsp;asked for some of Brian Laundrie\u2019s personal belongings to help them with DNA matching efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some have begun raising doubts as to whether Laundrie is, in fact, in the reserve.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A cattle rancher familiar with the location <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/gabby-petito-florida-cowboy-says-no-surviving-swamp-where-police-are-searching-for-brian-laundrie\"><span class=\"s1\">told<\/span><\/a> Fox News Digital that the conditions of the area are inhospitable to humans and would be extremely difficult to survive.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere\u2019s no surviving out here, I don\u2019t know how to say it,\u201d Alan McEwen said, who has been helping North Port Police Department with the search efforts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMcEwen has spent nearly every day of the last 30 years navigating the woods where Brian Laundrie is suspected of hiding,\u201d the outlet added.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been in the woods in and out all my life \u2026 I have learned a lot in my life, and one thing I know is no one is gonna survive out there for two weeks on foot,\u201d McEwen said. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cUnless he\u2019s got a butt like a duck and can float, he\u2019s not in there,\u201d McEwen said, adding that \u201cUnless he\u2019s got a hide like a gator, the mosquitoes will carry him right off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Carlton Reserve also reportedly contains 13-foot alligators, black bears, wild boar, deadly snakes, and panthers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">McEwen suspected that Laundrie hadn\u2019t passed away in the reserve, due to the fact that his remains would have been discovered.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAnything dead you find in the woods, you\u2019re gonna look up, you\u2019re gonna see buzzards flying like crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cNo buzzards, no body is my theory. And I haven\u2019t seen any buzzards flying.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The rancher also showed the outlet the various ways someone could go into the preserve and use it to head somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe could be anywhere,\u201d McEwen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gabby-petitos-father-gives-eulogy-if-there-is-a-relationship-that-youre-in-that-might-not-be-the-best-thing-for-you-leave-it-now\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;by The Daily Wire:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10.793103448276\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>On July 2, Gabby Petito left New York with her fianc\u00e9, Brian Laundrie. They took a road trip to Colorado and Utah. &nbsp;On August 12, a park ranger from Utah\u2019s Arches National Park&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/park-ranger-warned-gabby-petito-of-toxic-relationship-urged-her-to-find-another-path-before-disappearance\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>warned<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>&nbsp;Gabby Petito that her relationship with her fianc\u00e9 Brian Laundrie appeared \u201ctoxic\u201d and urged her to \u201cfind another path.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The funeral for Petito took place on Sunday, and hundreds of people were in attendance. Petito\u2019s father told the people who were there that he didn\u2019t want them to be sad.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gabby-petitos-father-gives-eulogy-if-there-is-a-relationship-that-youre-in-that-might-not-be-the-best-thing-for-you-leave-it-now\"><span class=\"s1\">added<\/span><\/a>, \u201cGabby didn\u2019t live that way. That wasn\u2019t her way\u2026 If you knew Gabby, she was always a pretty happy girl. People would gravitate to her; her nature was always to smile and treat everybody kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for Brian Laundrie is set to be scaled down after authorities have searched a nature reserve in Florida without finding the man who is a person of interest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}