On Thursday night, hours after the body was found, police arrested Emily Glass, 27, of Wichita, the stepmother of Lucas Hernandez, and charged her with one count of interfering with a law enforcement officer and obstruction, local station KAKE reports. Robin Taylor, Lucas’ maternal grandmother, said she was told unofficially Thursday night that her grandson’s body had been found in Harvey County, possibly near 96th Street and Oliver Road. In a text Thursday night, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett — asked if he could comment — said, “We’ll be able to speak more definitively after the autopsy tomorrow.” 
 
 Gay said the body was under a bridge in such a way that it would not have been visible from the street. Officers who found the body under a bridge in rural Harvey County called it “unidentifiable” because it was so badly decomposed, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Emily Glass, 27 Sedgwick County Government 
 
 Authorities have not yet identified the body. Sheila Medlam, a Colwich woman who has helped lead volunteer searches for Lucas, said she got a text message from North Carolina private investigator David Marshburn telling her: “We found him at 5:01.” 
 
 
 
 
 
 Medlam then talked to Marshburn by phone and in person at the scene. On the day Lucas was reported missing, Glass told police she last saw the boy in his bedroom at about 3 p.m. before she took a shower and fell asleep, police said at the time. At the time, Lucas’s elementary school teacher wrote an emotional post on her Facebook page, writing, “Please pray for the safe return of the 5-year old that went missing.” 
 
 “He is one of my students and a very sweet little boy.  A Kansas woman has been arrested after police found a body under a bridge believed to be that of her 5-year-old stepson, whom she had reported missing in February, multiple outlets report. While Glass has not been charged directly in the boy’s disappearance, the district attorney has called her a person of interest in the case, the Times reports. … Just continue to pray for the family because they lost somebody they love.” 
 
 Police have said that Glass reported Lucas missing from their home in the 600 block of South Edgemoor Street around 6 p.m. Feb. 17, a Saturday. Lucas’ father, Jonathan Hernandez, was arrested May 10 in an unrelated battery case, ABC News reports. Four days after Glass reported him missing, police announced that they arrested her on suspicion of endangering Lucas and her 1-year-old daughter, but prosecutors charged her only with endangering the girl. Last week, a jury found Glass not guilty of the misdemeanor charge involving the girl.
– Police believe that they have found the body of missing 5-year-old Lucas Hernandez, of Wichita, Kan. Lucas’s stepmother, Emily Glass, has been arrested for obstruction and one count of interfering with a law enforcement officer, reports People. According to the Wichita Eagle, the badly decomposed body was under a bridge on a gravel road, about a quarter of a mile from the nearest house. Sheila Medlam, a volunteer searcher, says she got a text message from a private investigator telling her, "We found him at 5:01." Within hours of the discovery, about two dozen volunteer searchers went to where the body was found and stood vigil for him, per the Eagle. The area where the body was found—near the town of Sedgwick about 20 miles north of Wichita—was close to where they had been searching. Glass, who has a one-year-old daughter, reported Lucas missing from their rental home on Feb. 17. The boy's father, Jonathan Hernandez, works out of state for long stretches and was away at the time, per ABC. A few days after Lucas’ disappearance, the police arrested Glass, 27, for endangerment—specifically, smoking three bowls of marijuana and then driving her daughter to a restaurant—but a jury found her not guilty. Court documents indicate that Lucas was frequently seen with bruises, and after Lucas was reported missing, friends and relatives came forward and said they thought he had been abused. A family friend who says she spoke with Jonathan relayed a message from him: "Jonathan said thanks to all searchers and everybody" who has supported the family and cared about Lucas. The friend adds, "Just continue to pray for the family because they lost somebody they love."