Updated: 8:08 ET, May 30 2021
EDEN Montes and his father Jose Montes-Herrera have been found safe and well after a dead body was wrongly identified as his 8-year-old brother.
A manhunt was launched and an amber alert issued after Eden s brother was supposedly found dead on a Las Vegas hiking trail.
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Jose Montes-Herrera, 37, was found in Utah with both of his sons
Police appealed for information on the whereabouts of Eden, 11, his younger half-brother, and their father Jose Montes-Herrera, 37, after the corpse was found.
She positively identified that child as being her son, Lt. Ray Spencer said, as he explained she had also signed an identification affidavit.
Officials are asking for help finding an 11-year-old boy whose half-brother was identified by a family member as the boy whose body was found by a hiker on a trail near Las Vegas Friday morning.
Who is Eden Montes and his 8-year-old brother?
Updated: 16:49 ET, May 29 2021
A FRANTIC search is on for 11-year-old Eden Montes, who is missing along with his father.
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Who is Eden Montes and his 8-year-old brother?
Authorities are searching for both Eden and his 37-year-old father, Jose Montes-Herrera, a Las Vegas resident. They both might possibly be in severe emotional distress and in need of medical assistance, an alert from police reads, according to KTNV.
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Eden s little half-brother has been found dead
The body of the 8-year-old boy was found near Route 160, the main highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump, the station reported.