Dominick Arceneaux : Grandmother Martha Cortez and Aunt Autumn Cortez talks to reporters

Reported by: LaTresha Woodruff

Contributor: David Goins
Chidester, AR -- Multiple law enforcement organizations continue their ground search for a missing Ouachita County boy.

Dominick Wesley Arceneaux
Age and/or DOB: 6/15/2005
Missing Date: 2/10/2009
Missing from City: Chidister
Missing from County: Ouachita Sex: Male
Race: White
Height: 3 ft.
Weight: 38 lbs.
Hair: Short brown hair
Eyes: Brown
Complexion is described as: Dark
Last seen wearing blue jean shorts with red stiching on the pockets..


A Morgan Nick Amber Alert was issued for Dominick Wesley Arceneaux, 3, Tuesday evening after the boy went missing near White Oak Lake west of Chidester.

The Center for Missing and Exploited Children is now part of the search. Divers are out in White Oak Lake just feet from his home and have been for most of the day.

Investigators interviewed family members and even known sex offenders in the area and turned up nothing.

Dominck's family is praying he's found safe a piece of paper they found in the woods gives them hope.

If you have any information please call the Ouachita County Sheriff's Department at (870) 837-2200.
Volunteers help search
Dive teams are in the water in Ouachita County looking for a missing 3 year old boy.

A Morgan Nick Amber Alert was issued for Dominick Wesley Arceneaux Tuesday after his mother reported him missing from the backyard of their home.

Debbie Fields says it just comes natural.

"I just felt a need to come out and help. I have a three-year-old grandson and I pray that people would come and help me if he was lost."

That's exactly what she and her two nieces are doing, covering thick, rough ground terrain, looking for 3-year-old Dominick Arceneaux.

"You don't know what you're going to find, I've been doing a lot of praying and calling his name, nothing yet," Fields said.

Game and Fish dive teams are on scene searching White Oak Lake. The Ouachita County Sheriff's Department does not suspect foul play but kept crime scene tape up throughout the day, not ruling anything out.

"It's sad, especially the unknown, it's different if you have something to work with, but if you have nothing to work with, you don't know where to start," Sheriff David Norwood says.

"I would crawl to look for him, it just gets you when your baby is missing," Fields says.

Fields, joined by police and up to 70 volunteers will keep searching for little Dominick Arceneaux.

"We're praying that, I don't know, just bring him home safe," Fields says. "Somebody's going to find him, he's going to be alright, we're going to keep looking."

Dominick's mom, Amber, is with family at their home. Understandably too upset to talk about how she's holding up.

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Update

New information continues to come in from Ouachita County after the discovery of the body of a 3-year-old boy who had been missing more than a week.

We're now told that Dominick Arceneaux's body was found at 11:45 this morning by a Sheriff's Department team searching White Oak Lake by boat.

The Sheriff confirmed this afternoon that the body found was the missing child.

Shortly after noon today, the Ouachita County Sheriff's Office deactivated the Morgan Nick Amber Alert for the boy, but saying only that a body had been found.

It wasn't until 1:30 this afternoon that the Sheriff confirmed the body found is 3-year-old Dominick Arceneaux.

The child had been missing since February 10 and an extensive search for him had gone on for days.

On Monday, the FBI set up a hotline seeking information in the case.

The boy, who lived only 50-feet away from the lake, had been missing since February 10.

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