Crime

Cops: 5-year-old boy found dead in upstate NY wasn't abducted

/ AP

BERNE, N.Y. - New York police investigating the death of a 5-year-old boy say a caretaker's initial report that he was abducted from an Albany-area home is false.

Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple told local media at about 3 a.m. Friday that the body of Kenneth White was found by a sheriff's K-9 unit conducting a search in the rural hamlet of Clarksville, 10 miles southwest of Albany.

Apple says the 19-year-old daughter of Kenneth's legal guardian told police two men wearing black ski masks entered a house in the neighboring town of Berne, pinned the woman to the floor and took the child at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

However, Apple told WGY-AM Friday morning that the teen's story is false. He says detectives are interviewing "a person of interest."

Apple says Kenneth's mother lives elsewhere in New York, his father in Massachusetts.

First published on December 19, 2014 / 9:39 AM EST

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