Search for Oklahoma 4-year-old now a ‘recovery operation’

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Athena Brownfield, 4, is pictured in a offered picture. (Credit: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)

CADDO COUNTY, Okla. – The disappearance of a 4-year-old lady in Oklahoma took a grim activate Monday, as authorities introduced they’re now wanting for her stays because the search transitions to a “recovery operation.”

Athena Brownfield was first reported lacking on Jan. 10 in Cyril, a small city situated about 70 miles southwest of Oklahoma City, in response to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. A postal service discovered Athena’s 5-year-old sister wandering alone outdoors their house and alerted native police. Authorities then decided that Athena was lacking.

In an update shared on Monday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation stated authorities have been now looking areas of the state’s Caddo County for Athena’s stays. 

Both ladies had been within the care of a couple recognized as Alysia and Ivon Adams, and Athena’s sister was taken into protecting custody, the bureau stated.

Ivon, 36, was arrested on Jan. 12 in Arizona on one rely of first-degree homicide and one rely of kid neglect within the case and was awaiting extradition to Oklahoma. Alysia, 31, was additionally arrested on Jan. 12 on two counts of kid neglect, the bureau stated in a assertion.

Alysia, who authorities stated is married to Adams, remained jailed in Oklahoma’s Caddo County.

Athena and her sister are “related” to Alysia and had been of their care for not less than a 12 months, the bureau stated within the assertion.

“The girls biological parents have been interviewed by agents and are cooperating with the investigation,” the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation stated. 

Ivon Adams and Alysia Adams are pictured in offered photographs. (Credit: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)

Last week, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and Oklahoma Highway Patrol deployed infrared helicopters, boats, four-wheelers, and personnel on the ground to look the close by space in an effort to find her.

On Monday, the state bureau requested the general public “not to self-deploy to search for Athena.”

“Individuals who search for Athena on their own could be trespassing or worse, interfering with the investigation by contaminating potential evidence,” it stated within the assertion.

Anyone with information concerning the case was requested to contact the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation tipline at (800) 522-8017 or e-mail [email protected]. Individuals can stay nameless.

This story was reported from Cincinnati. The Associated Press contributed.