(Guntown, MS) Dozens of heavily armed teams in camouflage are combing the woods around Adam Mayes trailer in Union County, Mississippi.
The FBI says they are continuing to search in the woods around Adam Mayes home because this is where the evidence and leads keep bringing them.
Agents have conducted over one hundred interviews and are getting tips from around the country.
A neighbor says the woods behind Mayes’ rented trailer are very dense and run all the way to New Albany. He also said they are full of hunting camps and several places Mayes could be hiding with the Bain girls.
Leland Hurt lives at the edge of those woods and says he’s fearful, but that’s not stopping him from getting out and doing some yard work.
“I know these folks around here and everyone is very on edge,” said Hurt.
Hurt says town officials have told them to stay alert and keep their doors locked.
“I even got my guns out and kind of dusted them off. I’m not a big gun guy, but I got a gun just in case,” said Hurt.
The FBI says the Union County Sheriff’s Department has made arrests on Mayes street since the search began. They say people are being questioned for interfering with that investigation. Several people possibly wanting a piece of the $175,000 reward.
Richard Norman was arrested just after this interview Wednesday.
“Nothing like that has ever happened like that around here. I’ve lived here my whole life and you wouldn’t even think he’d be the type of person to do that. He was always weird though,” said Norman.
The Union County Sheriff’s Department says he was picked up for probation violation for burglary, but wouldn’t confirm if it had anything to do with interference in the Mayes investigation.