Missing child found

ST. IGNATIUS -- The child reported missing and endangered yesterday in St. Ignatius was found safe today by CSKT police.

State justice department authorities have reported Camas Assiniboine, 2, was found safely Thursday afternoon and is again in custody of child protective services.

He was with his grandmother in custody of child protective services when his parents, Michael Assiniboine and Jessica Conko, took him Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

****

ST. IGNATIUS — Officials are searching for a 2-year-old boy from St. Ignatius who was reported missing Wednesday around 4 p.m.

Camas Assiniboine was in the custody of child protective services and being cared for by his grandmother when he was taken by his parents, Michael Assiniboine, 26, and Jessica Conko, 29, according to CSKT Police Chief Craige Couture.

Assiniboine is 6 feet, 2 inches tall, weighs 240 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. Conko is 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 135 pounds with brown hair and eyes.

Camas weighs about 30 pounds and has a shaved head of brown hair, brown eyes and was wearing a short-sleeved plaid button-up shirt and denim sweat pants at the time he was taken. He has 36 stitches on the front of his head.

Couture said that tribal police are making the missing child their top priority.

“We’ve followed every lead at this point, and we know they’ve run out of places to hide,” Couture said. “We will find them eventually.”