ROXBURY, New Hampshire — A missing 7-year-old boy with special needs was found safe Saturday after a multi-agency search in a rural, wooded area of Roxbury, according to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.
NH Fish and Game said conservation officers were notified at 3:20 p.m. on June 27, 2026 that the child was missing. The agency said the boy had last been seen by his parents at 12:30 p.m. at their residence in Roxbury.
K-9 team found the child behind his home
The residence was in a rural area surrounded by large tracts of woods, the department said. At 5:24 p.m., a K-9 team from New England Canine Search and Rescue located the child about 1,500 feet behind his residence.
According to the release, a conservation officer carried the child back to his residence. Members of the Keene Fire Department Ambulance checked him as a precaution before he was reunited with his parents.
Several agencies assisted in the search
NH Fish and Game said conservation officers were assisted by New Hampshire State Police Troop C, a New Hampshire State Police K-9 Unit, the Roxbury Fire Department, the Roxbury Police Department, the Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team, the New England K9 Search and Rescue Team, the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, the Keene Fire Department, and the Department of Emergency Services Communications.
The department did not identify the child, and ThinBlueNews is not adding identifying details beyond the public safety facts released by the agency.
For Support Law Enforcement readers, the Roxbury search is a reminder that many successful public-safety outcomes are quiet team efforts: dispatchers taking the call, conservation officers coordinating in the woods, K-9 handlers searching terrain, police and fire agencies assisting, and a child being carried back to family.
Sources reviewed
- New Hampshire Fish and Game Department: “Missing Child Found in Roxbury”
- New Hampshire Fish and Game Department law-enforcement press image used in the featured graphic
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