NEWBURGH – Police continue to aggressively investigate the disappearance of Marc Bookal, 4, who went missing from his mother’s 11 Benkard Avenue, Newburgh home on December 14. 

Police were back at it Saturday, searching for any clues as to the boy’s whereabouts.  Police may resume their ground search Monday, but regardless, detectives have been working daily looking for clues in an effort to find the boy.

On Saturday, a dozen people searched the area around the boy’s home at 11 Benkard Street, including Newburgh City Police, State Police uniform and K-9 and the Ramapo Search and Rescue Association.

Saturday was the second day of renewed ground searching with no new leads developed, Police Lt. Charles Broe said.

Bookal was under the care of his mother’s boyfriend, Cory Byrd, when he walked out the front door. Byrd remains in the Orange County Jail on a probation violation and a charge of endangering the welfare of a child. He has refused to take a lie detector test.

Earlier searches for young Marc were along the Newburgh waterfront and in the Hudson River itself.