{"id":234397,"date":"2025-09-17T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234397\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:02:15","slug":"atf-joins-search-for-new-york-man-missing-since-2023-25000-reward-now-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234397\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF joins search for New York man missing since 2023, $25,000 reward now offered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York State Police are intensifying their search for Stephen J. Houghton, a Keeseville resident who has been missing since February 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The ATF has joined the investigation, and a $25,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Houghton, was 35 years old at the time of his disappearance, last seen at a Stewart&#8217;s gas station in Port Henry, N.Y., on February 20, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The search began on August 18, 2023, when troopers responded to a missing person report at the Villa Motel on State Route 9 in Ausable. Family members reported that they had not heard from or seen Houghton since February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple law enforcement agencies are involved in the investigation, and family and friends are cooperating with authorities to provide any information that may help locate him.<\/p>\n<p>The State Police, with the assistance of the ATF, are hopeful that the reward will encourage anyone with information to come forward. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Stephen J. Houghton is urged to contact the New York State Police at 518-897-2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State Police are intensifying their search for Stephen J. Houghton, a Keeseville resident who has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,126037,5022,60177,5425,405,403,39015,5226,5225,5228,5227,126039,13273,126038,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-234397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-atf","10":"tag-investigation","11":"tag-keeseville","12":"tag-missing-person","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-state-police","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-port-henry","21":"tag-reward","22":"tag-stephen-j-houghton","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115220954911385496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234397","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=234397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}