{"id":233852,"date":"2025-09-17T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233852\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:54:09","slug":"where-is-stephen-houghton-reward-offered-in-search-for-missing-ny-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233852\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Stephen Houghton? Reward offered in search for missing NY man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/74280715007-missing.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What to do if someone you know goes missing<\/p>\n<p>Tips to follow if someone you know goes missing.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen J. Houghton, of Keeseville, New York, was last seen on February 20, 2022, at a Stewart\u2019s gas station in Port Henry, Essex County. He was 35 years old at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Houghton was officially reported missing by his mother in August 2023, over a year after his last known sighting, according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicle found abandoned<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/namus.nij.ojp.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Missing and Unidentified Persons System<\/a> (NamUS), Houghton\u2019s vehicle was later found abandoned on Johnson Pond Road in North Hudson, also in Essex County.<\/p>\n<p>Federal reward offered<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to Houghton\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Description and tribal affiliation<\/p>\n<p>At the time he disappeared, Houghton was:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>33 years old<\/li>\n<li>6 feet, 2 inches tall<\/li>\n<li>Weighed approximately 225 pounds<\/li>\n<li>Had black hair and blue eyes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He is now 37 years old. According to NamUS, he is enrolled with the <a href=\"http:\/\/saulttribe.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police: Family cooperating, investigation ongoing<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamily and friends are cooperating with law enforcement to provide any information that may help locate him,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/troopers.ny.gov\/news\/state-police-seeking-publics-assistance-ongoing-missing-person-reward-involved\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York State Police<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Have information? Contact State Police<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the disappearance is being asked to contact the New York State Police at (518) 897-2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to do if someone you know goes missing Tips to follow if someone you know goes missing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":233853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[567,5229,2542,4446,6006,5375,3228,2936,425,2551,728,5811,8324,644,663,451,635,405,403,39015,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,450,457,61079,7207,5378,5381,290,645,5379,6003,646,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,8572,8576,636],"class_list":["post-233852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-abuse","tag-america","tag-connect","tag-death","tag-death-u0026-tragedy","tag-enforcement","tag-law","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local","tag-local-connect","tag-local-news","tag-missing","tag-missing-persons","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-negative","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-persons","tag-police","tag-sensitive","tag-sensitive-subjects","tag-state","tag-story","tag-subjects","tag-tragedy","tag-u0026","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-violence-u0026-abuse","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}