ALPENA TOWNSHIP– A 4-year-old boy who wandered off in a wooded subdivision was located safely in Alpena Township.

The child, his grandfather, and the child’s younger brother had been visiting a pond at the end of Trowbridge Drive, off of Golf Course Road, when the boy wandered off and disappeared sometime before 5 p.m. Wednesday.

After a search of more than an hour, the child was located when a trooper heard a whimper from a wooded area close to the pond and found the boy crouched among the undergrowth.

The child, who was checked and cleared by paramedics, did not talk to police but was unharmed. He had been appropriately dressed for the mid-50s temperatures, incident commander Trooper K. C. Pagels, of the Michigan State Police-Alpena Post, said.

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