Police locate 4-year-old boy who got lost with dog in South Jersey woods

BUENA VISTA, NJ – It was a happy ending for police and the family of a 4-year-old boy who was reported missing in Buena Vista on Wednesday.

According to the New Jersey State Police, troopers from Buena Vista Station responded to the report of a missing child in Buena Vista Twp., Atlantic County.

“A 4-year-old boy and his black Labrador had wandered away from his house and were missing for more than an hour,” police reported. “While searching for the child, Trooper Ian Emmi and the child’s mother heard him off in the distance and ran to his location nearly a half mile from his house.”