Search for Brian Laundrie continues after arrest warrant, no answers from his parents

More than 50 law enforcement officials were back in the Carlton Reserve Friday searching for Brian Laundrie. On Thursday, an FBI warrant was put out for his arrest related to his activities after former fiancée Gabby Petito’s death. He faces charges of unauthorized usage of a credit card.

Friday marks the sixth day of searching the Carlton Reserve after Laundrie returned from a cross-country trip without his fiancée, who was later found dead in Wyoming.

A North Port police officer tweeted Thursday afternoon “tough is an understatement” with regard to searching the reserve’s swampy terrain / and the pressure to find Laundrie in that reserve, or wherever he may be, is only growing now that the federal warrant has been issued.

Friday night, North Port police responded to the Laundrie home after receiving a report of shots fired in the area.

According to NPPD, around 6:45 p.m., police got a call about shots fired near the home from an unknown number. No injuries were reported, and there was no evidence any shots were actually fired in the area. The public information officer also noted none of the members of the large media presence outside the home said they heard anything that sounded like gunshots in the area around the time of the call.

Police are looking into whether it was a swatting call — a prank call that brings a large number of police officers to a particular address.

Neighbors told us they were emotional and nervous. Police officers went to their doors and asked if they called about a disturbance. They told us they didn’t hear anything. Police went to the Laundrie home, looked in the yard and went inside the house.

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