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4Corners K-9 Search and Rescue Native owned 501c3 nonprofit org that locates and rescues lost and missing persons on tribal lands

10/07/2026

Hopefully, none of the kids who stopped at our booth tonight will ever need us.

And that’s kind of the point.

Tonight at , we let the kids test their noses with scent jars so they could understand a little bit about how our K9s use their noses to search for someone.

Then we flipped it around.

What if YOU were the one who got lost?

What would you do? Who would you go to for help? Who is a safe person? What could you do to help someone find you?

They laughed, they thought about it, and some even changed their answers. But hopefully, they walked away remembering something.

Because we know what it looks like when someone doesn’t come home. We know what it’s like to get that call.

So yes, tonight was fun. But hidden inside those games were lessons we hope these kids never have to use.

And if even one of them remembers something we talked about tonight on a day when they’re scared or separated from the people they love, then our booth did exactly what it was supposed to do.

The best search may be the one we help prevent. 🐾🪶🧡 🐶
Farmington High School Steve Hebbe Farmington Police Department - New Mexico KRWN FM

10/04/2026

Ryan Tom and Eugene Begay’s stories need to be heard beyond the jurisdiction where their missing-person cases began.

Both of these men have ties to southeastern , and one of our biggest hopes in getting their stories into the hands of KSL was that someone on the Utah side would see them.

Maybe someone knows something.

But just as important — maybe someone has something to offer.

Another investigator. Another agency. A federal resource. A search resource. A liaison. Someone who looks at these cases and simply asks:

“Has anyone reached out to see if we can help?”

Because here’s the hard part.

‼️We hear all the time that resources are available when the investigating agency requests them.

‼️But what happens when that request never comes?

‼️Do we just wait?

Every year that passes matters. Memories fade. People move. Witnesses become harder to find. People who once held information may no longer be here. And families are left trying to keep their loved one’s name from becoming another case people stopped talking about.

That’s why the rest of us have to keep opening doors where we can.

Not to point fingers. Not to take over someone’s investigation. But to get more eyes on these cases and connect people who may have resources, information or experience that could help.

🪶We especially want to thank Ryan Tom’s family and Eugene Begay’s family for making the time to sit down and tell their stories again.

🪶Because we know that isn’t easy.

🪶Imagine having to keep telling people how your loved one disappeared. Keep answering the same questions. Keep sharing the same pictures. Keep reopening that hurt — all while wondering:

🪶Is anything going to come from this one?
🪶Is anybody going to reach out this time?

Families shouldn’t have to keep carrying that alone.

Thank you to the Sherry Black Foundation for helping make the connection with KSL 5 TV giving Ryan and Eugene’s stories another opportunity to reach people and resources in Utah.

And thank you to Andrew Adams and KSL for taking the time to come down, sit with these families, listen to them and tell their stories.

Now we hope somebody reading or watching this takes the next step.

Maybe it’s not your case.
Maybe it’s not your .
Maybe nobody has formally asked you for help.

But you can still pick up the phone and ask, “Is there anything we can do?”

That’s how we start closing some of these gaps.

Please read their stories. Share them. Talk about them.

And please don’t forget their names.




Their families are still waiting.

09/27/2026

9/26/2026 Video 2
I thought I understood New Mexico’s Turquoise Alert. Then my own family had to request one—and we were denied.

And if you’re reading this thinking, “What even is a Turquoise Alert?” — this video is for you too.

A lot of people don’t know what New Mexico’s Turquoise Alert is, who qualifies, or that a Turquoise Alert and the emergency alert that goes directly to your cellphone are not necessarily the same thing.

I’ve spent years helping families navigate missing-person cases. This time, we were the family trying to navigate it.

We got our good ending. My nephew is safe.

But a good ending doesn’t erase the questions we were left with.

So please take the time to watch this one through.

I’m not trying to point fingers at one person or one agency. I’m trying to understand where the barrier actually is. Is it the law? How it’s being interpreted? Training? Implementation?

And if your family has gone through this process, your experience matters.

Tell them what happened. What worked? What didn’t? What didn’t make sense?

But maybe you’ve never had a missing loved one.

You can still help.

If you watch this, read the law, and you see some of the same questions and concerns we’re raising, don’t wait until this becomes personal to you.

Contact your legislators. Ask questions. Ask how the law is being implemented. Ask where the data is.

You don’t have to have lived through a missing-person case to recognize a barrier and help bring attention to it.

These are four of the legislators who sponsored New Mexico’s Turquoise Alert law, SB 41:

Sen. Angel Charley
[email protected]

Rep. Michelle Paulene Abeyta
[email protected]

Sen. Cindy Nava
[email protected]

Rep. Charlotte Little
[email protected]

And contact your own New Mexico state senator and representative too.

Ask the question.
Send the email.
Make the phone call.

We can’t keep identifying problems, talking about them on social media, and waiting for somebody else to fix them.

When we saw families struggling to get search resources, we did something about it. We created 4CK9SAR to remove that barrier.

And that’s why I believe it’s important to learn about these systems before you’re the family that needs them.

Awareness is important. But awareness without action only takes us so far.

Now let’s do something with what we know.

09/26/2026

9/25/2026 Video 1
Our nephew is safe. 🪶🧡🐾 But how we found him is something we can’t stop thinking about.

It took three family members, working different pieces of the same timeline, going back through information and re-verifying what didn’t make sense.

And when the Turquoise Alert we requested was denied, you—the community—became our alert.

We’ve helped more than 100 families through missing-person cases. This time, we were the family.

Even with the experience we have, none of us could have done this alone.

Families who are still searching for their own loved ones reached out to help us find ours. Search-and-rescue teams were ready to come help us—and every one of those SAR teams was from outside the state of New Mexico.

And thank you to Truckers Against Trafficking for sharing. Especially my nephews friends and his friends.

People shared his picture. People went out looking. People sent information. People simply asked, “What can we do?”

We will never forget that.

But what our family experienced raised questions that I don’t think we should walk away from just because ours had a good ending.

My nephew is safe. We got the ending every missing person’s family hopes for.

But a good ending doesn’t erase the gaps it took to get there.

Please watch. Please share.

✅Video 2: What happens when the system that’s supposed to help families becomes another thing they have to navigate?

09/21/2026

9/20/2026 Sunday

We went back today.

Yesterday, washed-out roads stopped us from reaching an area for another mission. Trying to find another way in is how we came across families who told us about relatives even farther out near the Chaco Wash—completely cut off and starting to run low on water, food and supplies.

So last night we reached out to the Sheep Springs Chapter Manager.

Today was Sunday. He could’ve told us to call back Monday. Instead, he showed up with a backhoe and another set of hands and started opening the road.

He didn’t look at those families as people who chose to live “way out there.” This is his community. So he showed up.

We followed him through washout after washout until eventually, even we couldn’t drive any farther. So we grabbed the water, dog food and supplies and carried them the rest of the way.

It’s easy to wonder why somebody lives that far out when your own road gets you home every day.

But some of these families have been here for generations. Parents were born here. Grandparents were born here. Their homes and livestock are here. This isn’t somewhere they ended up. This is home.

With more rain coming, people were offered somewhere safer to stay. Some will accept. Some may stay because of their homes, livestock, animals or other reasons. That’s a decision that’s probably a lot easier to judge when you aren’t the one having to make it.

And living remotely doesn’t mean you never need help.

You can know how to live off the land and still run out of water. You can be independent and still need a road. You can be resilient and still need a good relative.

A chapter manager found out people in his community needed help—and he went.

Sometimes being a good relative really is that simple.

09/20/2026

9/19/2026 Saturday

You can drive Highway 491 today and never know what’s happening just miles away.

We went into this area today for another mission and quickly realized there was a much bigger need. Road after road was washed out.

We met community members who could only drive so far before having to stop. Others are miles farther in with no way out at all — and those are some of the families beginning to run low on supplies. Neighbors are doing what they can, even walking supplies in where vehicles can no longer go.

We were able to get water, supplies and dog food out today, and we’ll be going back with more.

When we say “remote,” we don’t just mean far away. It means the people who may need help the most can sometimes be the hardest to reach.

What you see from the highway isn’t always the emergency happening miles beyond it. 🪶🧡🐾

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Farmington, NM
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