Arrest In Case of Newburgh Missing Boy

MYFOXNY.COM - Sources tell Fox 5 News that police have charged an upstate New York man with reckless endangerment after the four-year-old boy in his care disappeared.

Cops are looking for Marc Anthony Bookal. He was last seen at his home Monday in Newburgh, N.Y. on Benkard Avenue, police said. The door was left open and he was gone.

Cory Byrd was arrested on Tuesday. He is the boyfriend of Bookal's mother.

Bookal is 3-foot-6 and weights 42 pounds. He has black eyes and brown hair. He is described as a light-skinned black boy with discolorations on the back of his hands from a previous burn injury, authorities said.

He was last seen wearing a red long-sleeve shirt, white Nike Uptown sneakers, and gray Rokaware sweatpants, police said.

If you have any information, please call the hot line at 800-346-3543 or Newburgh police at 845-561-3131.