AMBER Alert for Sebastian Rogers: Officials searched Kentucky landfill

UPDATE: On Friday, the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office said a search of a Kentucky landfill did not provide any additional clues as to what happened to missing teen Sebastian Rogers. Click here for more.

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SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — The search for Sebastian Rogers, a missing teen from Sumner County, took investigators to Kentucky Thursday, where investigators searched a landfill.

According to the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office, the landfill in Kentucky is where trash went from Sebastian’s neighborhood in the Beech area. Officials called the search of the landfill a “precautionary measure to eliminate possible options and questions.”

A Kentucky State Police spokesperson, Ridge Porter, said detectives obtained a search warrant for the landfill located in White Plains.

“There is no specific information that indicates evidence related to the search for Sebastian may be there,” the sheriff’s office reported.

Sumner County deputies reportedly spoke with the garbage truck driver who picked up the trash from Sebastian’s neighborhood the day he went missing. The driver said he dumped the collected trash at the landfill on Wednesday and was able to tell investigators where in the landfill the garbage from the neighborhood was located.

On Friday morning, KSP spokesperson Porter said the landfill investigation concluded Thursday evening.

Thursday, March 7 marked one week and three days since Sebastian was reported missing, sparking a massive search covering thousands of miles around his home. However, officials said there still have been no signs of Sebastian.

The ground search was scaled back this week as authorities transitioned to the investigative side of the case. According to the sheriff’s office, investigators are working on eliminating and drumming up leads.