Wilson Won’t Reactivate Search for Boy Scout
A spokesman for Gov. Pete Wilson said Wednesday that the governor will not reactivate the search in the San Bernardino National Forest for a missing El Monte Boy Scout.
Wilson has accepted the opinions of forest experts who have said that the prospects of finding 12-year-old Jared Negrete through a reactivated mass search were “very difficult to guarantee at this time,” Deputy Press Secretary James Lee said. The search for the boy, missing since July 19, was drastically scaled back this week after searchers combed the slopes of Mt. San Gorgonio for 16 days.
At a news conference in an El Monte park on Wednesday, Philip Negrete, the boy’s father, repeated an earlier plea to Wilson to escalate the search effort.
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