CLEVELAND -
The mystery has deepened in the case of the postal worker who has been missing since Friday, as a national search team joined his family in looking for him.
Fox 8 has learned that federal agents executed a search warrant on Lathan's home Tuesday morning.
Special agent Scott Balfour would not discuss their investigation, but released this statement to Fox 8 News: "Special agents with the Office of Inspector General for the United States Postal Service investigate crimes committed by postal service employees, including mail theft, financial embezzlement, worker's comp and other types of crimes."
Lathan's family says it is their understanding that the postal service was just trying to help locate Robert.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the founder of the professional search team Texas Equusearch joined the hunt for 49-year old Robert Lathan. He was reported last seen early Friday morning. His brother, Christopher, says they were involved in a car accident on Martin Luther King Boulevard and St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland.
"This is what they do, I asked them please help me, I need everybody, anybody to help me find my brother," said another brother, Reginald Lathan.
"When two Cleveland police officers came in there and said that you were in a car accident and you were by yourself in a car accident, and I knew that was wrong off the rip...I told them 'no I was not', I said 'my brother was with me," Christopher Lathan told Fox 8 News.
Lathan's brother Christopher says Robert was driving the car, but a police report indicates Christopher was found on the driver's side, and there was no sign of Robert in the vehicle. Christopher Lathan admits he had been drinking before the crash and doesn't remember what happened.
"He's trying to piece together little parts of it, but unfortunately it's still a gray...that time lapse from them leaving his house and after the accident is still gray to him, he still can't quite put it all the way together," said Robert Lathan's son, Roberto.
With the help of police officers and firefighters, Tim Miller searched nearby Doan's Creek by boat. He says a covering of 2 to 3 inches of ice, is making the search difficult.
"We're here until we feel we've used up every resource and if there's nothing else we can give, no sense in us staying, so we'll stay as long as we can be productive," Miller said.
Tim Miller says three more people from EquuSearch were flying to Cleveland from Texas Wednesday night to help continue the search for Lathan Thursday morning.
If you have any information regarding Robert Lathan's whereabouts, contact the Cleveland Police Department.
Fox 8 has learned that federal agents executed a search warrant on Lathan's home Tuesday morning.
Special agent Scott Balfour would not discuss their investigation, but released this statement to Fox 8 News: "Special agents with the Office of Inspector General for the United States Postal Service investigate crimes committed by postal service employees, including mail theft, financial embezzlement, worker's comp and other types of crimes."
Lathan's family says it is their understanding that the postal service was just trying to help locate Robert.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the founder of the professional search team Texas Equusearch joined the hunt for 49-year old Robert Lathan. He was reported last seen early Friday morning. His brother, Christopher, says they were involved in a car accident on Martin Luther King Boulevard and St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland.
"This is what they do, I asked them please help me, I need everybody, anybody to help me find my brother," said another brother, Reginald Lathan.
"When two Cleveland police officers came in there and said that you were in a car accident and you were by yourself in a car accident, and I knew that was wrong off the rip...I told them 'no I was not', I said 'my brother was with me," Christopher Lathan told Fox 8 News.
Lathan's brother Christopher says Robert was driving the car, but a police report indicates Christopher was found on the driver's side, and there was no sign of Robert in the vehicle. Christopher Lathan admits he had been drinking before the crash and doesn't remember what happened.
"He's trying to piece together little parts of it, but unfortunately it's still a gray...that time lapse from them leaving his house and after the accident is still gray to him, he still can't quite put it all the way together," said Robert Lathan's son, Roberto.
With the help of police officers and firefighters, Tim Miller searched nearby Doan's Creek by boat. He says a covering of 2 to 3 inches of ice, is making the search difficult.
"We're here until we feel we've used up every resource and if there's nothing else we can give, no sense in us staying, so we'll stay as long as we can be productive," Miller said.
Tim Miller says three more people from EquuSearch were flying to Cleveland from Texas Wednesday night to help continue the search for Lathan Thursday morning.
If you have any information regarding Robert Lathan's whereabouts, contact the Cleveland Police Department.
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