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Missing NYC boy found safe in the Catskills

MONTICELLO – A couple of hundred emergency responders and volunteers Sunday evening searched the greater Monticello area looking for a 12-year-old boy who was reported missing early Saturday afternoon. He was found safe and sound late Sunday night.

Binyamin Simantov-Linkov, was last seen at the Monticello Synagogue on Landfield Avenue at 1 p.m. He was found around 10:30 p.m. hiding under a porch, said Rabbi Joel Gold, the chaplain for the state forest rangers.

Some 200 volunteers came up to Monticello from Brooklyn to aid in the search and hand out fliers with the boy’s picture at the stores in the area in hopes that someone might have seen him. Fliers were also handed out in Brooklyn.

Emergency personnel from Monticello Fire and Police departments, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office, Catskills Hatzolah and Misaskim were searching for the boy, who is a resident of Crown Heights.