This story was originally published by East Idaho News .

An Endangered Missing Advisory has been issued for a 5-year-old Utah boy after his non-custodial father did not return him from a visitation and left with the child in a pickup truck believed to be towing a trailer.

James Despain was last seen at 5:30 p.m. Thursday when he was picked up from his mother, Natalie Despain, at her home in Bountiful, the advisory from the Utah Department of Public Safety says.

When she went to retrieve him after the scheduled visit, neither James nor his father, 45-year-old Benjamin Despain, were at the dad’s home in Murray.

Investigators say Despain’s pickup truck — a red 2006 Toyota Tacoma with Utah license plate 255PCJ — was missing from the residence. A white 2004 Forest River trailer was al

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