GREENWICH - Police in Greenwich are currently at the former home of Jaliek Rainwalker’s adoptive parents.

The 12-year-old boy was been missing since Nov. 1. His father, Stephen Kerr, has been named a person of interest in the case.

Police Chief George Bell says new information gathered this week led to a search warrant for the residence on Hill Street. Officers spent about four hours there and took evidence out of the home.

Bell would not comment on what the new information is or what eveidence they gathered in the home.

Kerr says he’s evaluating the legality of the search.  He says police did not have a search warrant when they first arrived.

Kerr and his wife, Jocelyn McDonald, moved late last week from Greenwich to West Rupert, Vermont.

Earlier today state police divers were in Troy searching for the boy in the Hudson River near the Hoosick Street Bridge. Two state police boats combed river using sonar equipment searching for any possible sign of Jaliek.

Jaliek’s grandmother, Barbara Reeley, watched the search from the shore. It’s hard, she says, because she lives close by and her husband works just a couple blocks away.

“It’s difficult to think that we would have come and gone back and forth to work, to home each day. If Jaliek is found here, I mean, I don’t think that anything could be more heartbreaking than finding him not alive, but also that we could have come and gone for months not knowing,” Reeley said.

Bell says they were looking there because he believes Kerr is lying about the car ride he and Jaliek took the day the boy disappeared.

According to the chief, Kerr says he picked up Jaliek from a couple watching the boy at a hotel on Western Avenue in Albany. They went to the Red Robin in Latham and then got on alternate Route 7, crossed the Hoosick Street Bridge and moved on to Greenwich.

Bell says he thinks there was more to that trip. They’re focusing on the Hoosick Street Bridge, but won’t say why.

Troy police were on scene to assist, keeping in mind they may need to do more.

“If in fact Jaliek’s body is discovered in the river and it is determined that harm came to him at this specific location, this becomes a city of Troy homicide,” Troy Police Capt. John Cooney said.

Bell says the divers did not find anything in the water on Thursday.  There is no word yet if the search there will resume on Friday.

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