The Latest: Official: Person of interest makes bail, freed
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Latest on the search in Pennsylvania for four missing men (all times local):
7:25 p.m.
Authorities say a person of interest in the case of four missing Pennsylvania men who had been jailed on an unrelated gun charge has been released after posting bail.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A post on the Bucks County District Attorney's Twitter feed Tuesday night says 20-year-old Cosmo DiNardo has been released after posting 10 percent of his $1 million bail in cash.
DiNardo, whose family owns a sprawling farm property that has become the center of the search for the missing men, was arrested on Monday for illegally possessing a 20-gague shotgun and ammunition.
Officials would not call him a suspect in the case but said he was a person of interest and asked a judge to set his bail at $1 million for fear he was a flight risk.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Neither DiNardo nor his lawyer could immediately be reached for comment.
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3:45 p.m.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Cadaver dogs and heavy equipment are in use as police search a sprawling Pennsylvania farm for evidence linked to four missing young men.
News videos show a line of police recruits Tuesday combing through cornfields about 30 miles north of Philadelphia.
The property owner's son has been taken into custody on $1 million bail over a prior gun charge. Officials say 20-year-old Cosmo DiNardo is a person of interest and a flight risk, but not a suspect in the case.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The DiNardo family also owns a concrete company. The FBI has been searching a pile of broken concrete slabs on the farm with a frontloader.
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub (WINE'-trobe) says Tuesday he is still holding out hope the men will be found alive.
One went missing Wednesday and three others on Friday.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}They are identified as 22-year-old Mark Sturgis, 21-year-old Tom Meo, 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro, and 19-year-old Jimi Tar Patrick.
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11:30 a.m.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities are calling a 20-year-old man a flight risk as dozens of police officers and recruits scour his family's 90-acre Pennsylvania farm in the search for four young men missing since last week.
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub (WINE'-trobe) says the 20-year-old son of the property owners was rearrested on a gun charge Monday because he has become more of a flight risk. But Weintraub is not calling Cosmo DiNardo a suspect in the disappearance of the young men.
DiNardo is being held on $1 million bail over a charge that he illegally possessed a shotgun after a mental health commitment. Neither his lawyer nor his parents have returned calls for comment.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Police say one man went missing Wednesday and three others on Friday.
They are identified as 22-year-old Mark Sturgis, 21-year-old Tom Meo, 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro, and 19-year-old Jimi Tar Patrick.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}9 a.m.
Authorities searching for four missing young men feared to be the victims of foul play have resumed their focus on a large swath of farmland in Solebury Township, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Philadelphia.
Officials also scheduled a Tuesday news conference on the investigation.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The FBI, Pennsylvania State Police and local law enforcement agencies are searching for 22-year-old Mark Sturgis, 21-year-old Tom Meo, 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro, and 19-year-old Jimi Tar Patrick. Patrick is a student at Loyola University in Baltimore.
One of the men disappeared last Wednesday; the other three went missing Friday.
Authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man whose family owns the sprawling farmland. He's been arrested on a weapons charge. Authorities haven't called him a suspect in the men's disappearance.
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12:55 a.m.
Police are still searching for four missing young Pennsylvania men Tuesday, a day after authorities arrested a man linked to a property that has become the center of the investigation.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities have focused their search on a large swath of farmland in Solebury Township, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Philadelphia.
On Monday, police arrested 20-year-old Cosmo DiNardo, whose family owns the sprawling property, on an unrelated gun charge. They have not called DiNardo a suspect in the men's disappearance.
Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub (WINE'-trobe) has identified the men who went missing last week as 22-year-old Mark Sturgis, 21-year-old Tom Meo, 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro and 19-year-old Jimi Tar Patrick.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Weintraub believes foul play is involved. He's compared the search effort to finding "needles in a haystack."