Plans to capture alligators and examine their stomachs in an area where crews have been searching for a missing Leesburg boy were called off at the last minute, according to Local 6 News report.

Monday afternoon, The Marion County Sheriff's Office asked the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to catch at least one large alligator near Farles Lake in the Ocala National Forest.

If alligators are captured, their stomachs will be examined for any evidence such as bone, fabric and hair remnants, a Florida Fish and Wildlife release said.

The alligator search was planned for Monday night. However, trappers decided to leave them alone since they have not bothered the divers and they have not been linked to Trenton's disappearance.

"The alligators are not going anywhere, they are going to be out there," Florida Fish and Wildlife representative Joy Hill said. "If the decision is made to go ahead and trap some of the larger alligators that are out there, we will be ready."

Divers want to swim the entire lake because of a tipster who said he spotted Trenton and his mother Melinda Duckett at the lake the weekend he vanished.

Trenton was reported missing 22 days ago by his mother, who committed suicide more than a week ago.

Timeline Changed

Local 6 News reported that two new tipsters came forward Monday and said they saw Melinda Duckett in The Villages on Saturday, Aug. 26, at 4 p.m.

Police said Duckett was also spotted alone at a Leesburg business on Sunday at 8 a.m. and at a Leesburg apartment on Sunday at 3 p.m. without her son.

The new information apparently contradicts a timeline Duckett gave investigators before she committed suicide.

"We should point out that this does not mean that Trenton was not with his mother," Local 6's Erik von Ancken said. "He could have been in the back seat or in a car seat."

Search Continues

Authorities searched a fourth day near Farles Lake in the Ocala National Forest with dive teams, search dogs and ground crews.

"It is very treacherous work," Marion County sheriff's Capt. James Pogue said. "The water is murky. It is not like swimming in a swimming pool, where you see everything when you go underwater. It is really just a touch-and-feel-type of game."

Searchers formed a human dragnet around Farles Lake Sunday but found nothing.

More than 150 officers and volunteers, 17 cadaver dogs and a helicopter were used in the search near the Farles Lake area of the forest.

Hundreds Of Tips

Local 6 News reported that since the boy vanished on Aug. 27, tips have come in by the hundreds, but there are still more to check out, according to police.

"We are still trying to firm up Melinda's timeline in the 24 to 48 hours prior to the abduction," Leesburg police Capt. Steve Rockefeller said.

Leesburg police said a multiagency task force is working other routine leads and plans to regroup Monday and Tuesday to plot a new course in the search for the toddler.

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