{"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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":""},"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":{"0":"post-233852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-abuse","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-connect","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-death-u0026-tragedy","13":"tag-enforcement","14":"tag-law","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-local-connect","18":"tag-local-news","19":"tag-missing","20":"tag-missing-persons","21":"tag-modular","22":"tag-modular-story","23":"tag-negative","24":"tag-new","25":"tag-new-york","26":"tag-new-york-city","27":"tag-new-york-state-police","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-newyork","30":"tag-newyorkcity","31":"tag-ny","32":"tag-nyc","33":"tag-overall","34":"tag-overall-negative","35":"tag-persons","36":"tag-police","37":"tag-sensitive","38":"tag-sensitive-subjects","39":"tag-state","40":"tag-story","41":"tag-subjects","42":"tag-tragedy","43":"tag-u0026","44":"tag-united-states","45":"tag-united-states-of-america","46":"tag-unitedstates","47":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","48":"tag-us","49":"tag-usa","50":"tag-violence","51":"tag-violence-u0026-abuse","52":"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}]}}