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Crews swarm new area to search for 21-month-old Lonzie Barton

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On Monday, the search for missing 21-month-old Lonzie Barton went into the fourth day.

The latest search site was an area on Greenland Road behind Christ's Church. Action News was at the scene as officers and search dogs combed the area shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, eventually leaving after about an hour.

Action News obtained exclusive aerial footage showing crews focused once again on the Southside near the Avenues Mall on Monday, an area neighbors said suspect Ruben Ebron knows very well.

"He lived back here for such a long time," said one woman who didn't want her identity revealed. She said Ebron was her neighbor for years.

Police spent the day searching every home and the woods and ponds behind them in the Southern Oaks Mobile Home Park. Later, we were invited inside the security office, where we're told the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spent hours going through surveillance video.

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"This is traditional investigative techniques, it is enhanced by the technology," said Action News Law and Safety Expert Dale Carson.

Carson believes technology is key to finding Lonzie. Police confirm cellphone records, traffic cameras and surveillance video led them to Southern Oaks.

"So you see the car pass one surveillance and it wouldn't pass another. That lets you know it was stopped in that area," Carson said.

"He's the last person I would think to be involved in something like this," said Ebron's former neighbor.

His former neighbor said this is an area Ebron would be comfortable with, but they still find it hard to believe he could be behind Lonzie's disappearance.

"I feel like if he knew something he would tell. I don't see him as a monster when it comes to children," said Ebron's former neighbor.

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