Choco-SAR

01/21/2026

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10/11/2025

Here is the winner of the Choco SAR drawing. Congratulations and thank you!

09/10/2025

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SAD UPDATE:

The search for 7-year-old Liam King has come to a heartbreaking end.

Authorities confirmed this morning that Liam’s body was discovered in a pond near the area where he was first reported missing.

“It is with heavy hearts that we share this update,” officials said. “We are absolutely devastated. I wish more than anything that we had a different outcome — for Liam’s family, for our community, and for the hundreds of first responders and volunteers who poured their hearts into finding him alive.”

Search crews and community members worked tirelessly for two days in hopes of bringing Liam home safely. “This loss is truly heartbreaking,” officials said. “We ask everyone to please continue to keep Liam’s family in your thoughts and prayers.”

Liam’s death remains under investigation.

09/09/2025

Night missions in Asheboro, NC

01/15/2025

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To instruct Search and Rescue (SAR), Law Enforcement, and other personnel with first response capability to a missing person incident, how to navigate across

12/24/2024

Statement from Chief MJ Harris:

"Thank you for being here with us.

First, we want to honor the life and service of Officer Michael Horan, who was killed in the line of duty this morning.

Together, we are mourning Officer Horan -- who was a husband, father, son, friend, and much more to his family. He became a sworn officer with the department in early 2018, and he served on the Patrol Bureau in District 4, on Squad A.

Officer Horan was hired in September of 2017 to start the 103 PBIC Academy. He was an excellent officer. He had an outstanding reputation inside the Department and the community. We ask that you please keep his family, friends and fellow officers in your thoughts and prayers.

Officer Horan responded to a call about a man with a firearm inside Food Lion in the 4700 block of Lawndale Drive. A shooting occurred inside the store at approximately 11 a.m., fatally wounding Officer Horan. The circumstances of what led to the shooting are being investigated.

The offender is in custody and there is no threat to the public. We will release more details about the suspect as the investigation continues.
Our department has requested the State Bureau of Investigation to be the lead investigating agency.

On behalf of the Greensboro Police Department, we want to thank our law enforcement partners across the state for your support and for your efforts today to quickly apprehend the suspect.

We also want to thank our community for continuing to support our officers and their families during this difficult time. We will be sharing more information with media after this news conference with details about a fundraiser for the officer’s family, and other ways in which we plan to honor Officer Horan’s life and service."

A memorial has been set up in his honor at police HQ. One will be located outside and the other in the main lobby.

Below you can find information on how you can donate to the family of Officer Horan:

https://helpahero.com/campaign/greensboro-police-officer-michael-t-horan

10/12/2024

HOW CAN YOU VOLUNTEER FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE?

If you want to get involved with a Search And Rescue group that is deployable in a natural disaster, I would encourage you to go join a SAR group at a local volunteer fire department. SAR requires training so be prepared for a time commitment. Training is offered free to members of teams. Sometimes the course you need isn’t offered locally so you must be willing to drive somewhere to get training quickly. When you join an official group, you will also be covered under the workers comp policy. Keep in mind that, SAR can be a strenuous activity so you need to be in reasonable physical condition. There will also be a monthly time commitment for regular training. To volunteer for SAR, you don’t get to just put your name on a list and wait for the next local disaster.

* What type of SAR do you want to do?
- Wilderness SAR teams are used during land search for lost/missing people. A few examples of people we search for are lost kids, people with cognitive impairment who wondered away and people lost in the woods while camping, hunting, hiking, etc. We train in tracking, and use K9s, drones, horses, ATVs and help with incident management in command centers.
More information here -> https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/em-operations/em-resources/search-rescue/wilderness-search-rescue

- USAR teams are given the lead on searches when there are natural disasters that require search in debris fields, structures and searches that require technical training for things like high angle reascue. Many of the same teams are deployed that are used in Wikderness SAR.
More information here -> https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/em-operations/em-resources/search-rescue/urban-search-rescue

- Swift water teams are used during the initial rescue phase in a flood or in other situations when people are being rescued in fast moving water. More information here -> https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/emergency-management/em-operations/em-resources/search-rescue/swiftwater-search-rescue

Official teams are ones who are deployable through Emergency Management. If you join a team, you qualify for free SAR training that is necessary to do the job. You will also be covered under workers comp insurance.

In summary, if you are inspired to help, get trained now and join a team. You can’t just walk onto an official team at the moment a disaster has happens. Without training, you are a potential liability.

10/12/2024

MISSING

Deputies are attempting to locate Linda McCuiston, 78 yr old female. She was seen today in the MeadowWood sub-division of Cordova around 1:00pm. Mrs. McCuiston suffers with cognitive issues. Last seen wearing black shirt & black pants.

If anyone has seen her this afternoon, we ask you call 911 right away.