JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Searchers were spotted again Thursday morning near Chaffee Road and Crystal Springs Boulevard, where the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday that investigators were searching for human remains.
JSO declined to elaborate on the case related to the Westside Jacksonville search but told News4JAX on Thursday morning that nothing was found during the search.
A News4JAX crew on Thursday morning saw heavy equipment headed into the woods in the area where investigators spent the day searching Wednesday.
Sky4 flew over the scene Wednesday afternoon and could see three yellow bulldozers and investigators with shovels searching a vacant lot next to a gas station. There was also a green and white excavator digging in the woods as well as tents and a mobile command post.
No other details were immediately available.
A JSO spokesman did tell News4JAX the search does not involve Iyana Sawyer, a pregnant 16-year-old girl who was last seen leaving Terry Parker High School in December 2018.
Her uncle, Johnathan Quiles, 34, was indicted in 2019 on murder charges in the death of Sawyer and her unborn child and is going to trial soon.
Her body has never been found.