The search for a missing non-verbal six-year-old boy in Shamattawa First Nation continues to expand, with more resources arriving in the northeastern Manitoba fly-in community Saturday.Johnson Redhead was last seen on Wednesday morning, after he went to his school’s breakfast program but didn’t show up to class after that, RCMP previously said.Sgt. Paul Manaigre said Saturday that two flights of searchers arrived Friday night and two more would arrive during the day, bringing 30 to 40 more experienced searchers from Winnipeg, Thompson and Pimicikamak Cree Nation to join the ground crews of about 50 to 80 community members in Shamattawa.”Now it’s just a matter of putting them out there … getting into the woods. This is where we believe he is,” said Manaigre, who spoke to CBC on Saturday afternoon after a ground search.A helicopter search of the riverbanks was planned for later in the afternoon, he said.Manaigre also said he met with Johnson Redhead’s mother and father on…
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