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Massachusetts State Police K-9 Helps Find Missing Boy With Autism

NORTH BROOKFIELD (CBS) – Authorities are crediting a Massachusetts State Police K-9 with helping to find a missing boy with autism.

Police say the 14-year-old disappeared just after 10 p.m. on Monday night, triggering a search by officers on the ground and in the air.

Trooper Scott Davis and his K-9 partner Cairo were among those looking for the boy.

Davis and Cairo found the boy sleeping on a park bench at about 10:55 p.m., not far from where he had last been seen.

MSP K-9 Team Locates Missing Child With Autism Shortly after 10 p.m. on the night of Monday, Feb. 29, State Police were...

Posted by Massachusetts State Police on Wednesday, March 2, 2016

The boy was returned home safely, police said.

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