below the screen there is also caution tape on the other side of the road. law enforcement has backed curious onlookers and neighbors and other people in the area to the other side of the street and when they did our fox digital reporters on the scene said you re in a crime scene. the first time they referred to this area as a crime scene. a different dynamic. as you recall last week any time there was any development, witnesses, neighbors, curious onlookers would crowd the house and walk right up onto the lawn. at that point authorities did not know that any crime had been committed. they simply were referring to this as a missing persons case. clearly there is a new sense of urgency in this investigation as f.b.i. agents execute that search warrant. trace: i know the police have a lot of pressure because
relevant to the gabby petito investigation. no further details can be provided since this is an active and ongoing investigation. and it seems as if authorities are refocusing the search for brian laundrie at the home of his parents. of course, this morning we were expecting the search for brian laundrie to continue at the carlton reserve. authorities several agencies have been out there for the last couple of days searching that area after his parents reported him missing and said he had gone there. that s what they reported to police on friday. they said he had gone there on tuesday and they hadn t seen him since. over the last couple of days police have been using atvs, drones, canine dogs and some of brian s clothing to try to find any trace of him in that carlton reserve which is 25,000 acres. so it was a big surprise to us this morning that the north port police department said
do the authorities believe that they are part of some criminal activity? these are some of the questions that we don t know. but i can tell you i do not believe and i m being slightly redundant this is anything other than a criminal investigation. i think the authorities now believe that there have been foul play and they are directing their attention at laundrie and to try to determine where he is and to try to determine if he was ever in that swamp area. and who may very well be assisting him. those individuals may also be charged with a crime, accessory definitely after the fact. dana: this is dana. i have a question we ve been wondering for a while which is laundrie, if he does in fact ever go to the home and the van is there, but at some point
along the way you would have surveillance coverage of him possibly getting gas or using a rest area or something like that. we haven t had any of that come forward yet. well, we haven t been told of any of that, dana, you are absolutely correct. but that does not mean that the authorities do not have that kind of information that they re keeping close to their vest. so as i ve said before, there is a great deal that the authorities already know about this complete investigation. i believe that while they were saying that laundrie was a person of interest, that they in the back of their mind knew that unfortunately that there was more likelihood that gabby would not be coming home and they were treating this also as a criminal investigation. trace: it s striking to me, ted. you go over the timeline and a
they say they could not execute a search warrant on the home. they could not go in and question brian laundrie. others saying they should have been compelled to exercise a search warrant. i wonder if this changes? is this maybe a nod that the f.b.i. is saying we re going to take the lead on this, we re going to go in there and do a thorough search, we are going to find out for ourselves what we want to find out? yeah, that s interesting. i don t know there has been any change in the leadership of this investigation. i know that north port police have been very professional and very transparent through this entire investigation but they are a small police department. they have limited resources. so really while they were searching for brian in the area, they only had so many resources to monitor the home. and so clearly with the f.b.i.