Overview

• Authorities recovered a body from the East River near the Whitestone Bridge on June 11 and believe it to be that of Montrell Williams, who vanished on May 10.
• Montrell was last seen during a court-sanctioned visit with his father in the Bronx and never returned to his mother’s care.
• Arius Williams was held without bail on charges of custodial interference after refusing to disclose his son’s whereabouts to a family court judge.
• Police obtained surveillance footage showing Arius Williams discarding a black bag into the Bronx River shortly after his son’s disappearance.
• The NYPD has launched an internal review to assess how detectives handled the initial missing persons report.