New search begins for missing Wyoming boy

CHEYENNE — Authorities are searching a pond and a manure pile on a community college campus in Cheyenne for the remains of a missing 13-month-old boy.

Laramie County Sheriff’s Lt. Don Hollingshead says three volunteer divers were searching the murky pond Wednesday. The pond on the Laramie County Community College campus is about 1 acre in size and 10 to 30 feet deep.

Others were searching a nearby manure pile.

They’re looking for the body of Silas Ojeda.

RECORDS: Baby buried in landfill exposed to meth

Authorities had earlier searched a landfill near Ault.

Hollingshead says the new search was undertaken after detectives received new information. He declined to provide specifics.

Twenty-three-year-old Logan Hunter Rogers of Cheyenne, the boyfriend of the boy’s mother, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment with a controlled substance in Silas’ death.

Rogers allegedly took Silas Ojeda to a friend’s home hours before he died, where the child was exposed to methamphetamine and suffered a concussion after falling from a counter top, according to details in Rogers' arrest affidavit obtained by the Coloradoan.