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HANOVER COUNTY, VA (WTVR) – The Hanover Sheriff’s Office is telling people who want to volunteer and search for missing nine-year-old Robbie Wood Jr., to not show up at the search site.

“The Hanover Sheriff’s Office is extremely appreciative of the multiple offers of help that it has received from citizens and volunteer agencies,” Hanover County Sheriff’s Captain Mike Trice said in a Monday afternoon a press release. “At this time, however, we ask that volunteer groups and citizens do not come to the area to assist. It is important that efforts stay coordinated to prevent accidently disturbing search trails and confusing search dogs.”

Crews are actively searching for Wood who disappeared in the woods north of Richmond, Virginia Sunday.

Robbie’s father says around 2:45 p.m. Sunday afternoon the child, who has autism and does not speak, ran away from his family during a hike in the woods.

Aftering looking for the child Sunday afternoon and evening, searchers called off the active search for Wood around 1:00 a.m. Monday morning. At that time, searchers were positioned at “observation points” along roads and rivers in and around North Anna Battlefield Park in Doswell, Virginia hoping to spot the child.

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