Since Tuesday, about 100 residents of this small Kane County community have been searching for 6-year-old Lance Guevarra.
Spotters in an airplane flew overhead, and volunteer fire-fight-ers from nearby Page, Ariz., went through the weeds and sagebrush surrounding the town.His mother, Kimberly Guevarra, fears he may have been abducted.
"I've drilled him to not talk with strangers. I can't see him getting in a car with someone he doesn't know," she said Thursday, hours after authorities called off the attempt to track her boy's scent with dogs.
The town's marshal, a county deputy and a detective have tracked down rumors of strangers having been seen, but so far, no solid leads have turned up, said Kane County Sheriff Lamont Smith.
"I don't think anyone saw any suspicious people," Smith said.
The investigators also have questioned Kimberly, 34, who works as a waitress, her husband, William Guevarra, 39, who has a general contractor business, and Lance's older brothers, who are 9, 10 and 11 years old.
"I don't mind being investigated because we've got nothing to hide," Kimberly Guevarra said. "But it's a waste of time because he's not here."
She said the last time she saw Lance was Tuesday about 6:30 p.m. when he asked to go with his 10-year-old brother Robert to a neighbor's house.
When he left home, he was wearing a pair of blue shorts with red trim and wasn't wearing any shoes or a shirt.
Investigators planned on Friday to re-interview neighbors and Lance's family.