Updated November 12, 11:25 p.m.
The boys were found safe and were reunited with their parents at the Anderson City Police Department. The boy's father JD Hansen told News Channel 7's Melissa Keeney, "My first thoughts were I'm glad they're ok. I wanted to tell them that I love them. At the same time, you want to be upset with them too." He says he had no doubt the two boys, who are both boy scouts, would take care of each other. "We said prayers during the day," he says. "We had a feeling they were ok." Now, he says he is not sure how to discipline the boys. "They saw the helicopters. They heard the dogs. And they were scared, as they should have been."
Updated November 12, 6:46 p.m.
Two missing boys were found Thursday afternoon, according to Randall Williams with the Anderson Police Department.
More information to come. Check wspa.com for updates.
Updated November 12, 3:00 p.m.
The Anderson Police Department says a woman saw two boys matching the descriptions of Hansen and Thompson jump out of a patch of kudzu and run across the street. They are searching the SLED have joined in the search.
Posted November 12, 11:18 p.m.
Four Anderson County District 5 schools were on lockdown Thursday as Anderson Police search for two children who have disappeared.
Anderson Police spokesman Randall Williams says the children were last seen at a home Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. at 135 Herd Park Drive.
The children were missing this morning along with three handguns and some camping equipment.
Police are looking for 13-year-Old James Hansen, a white teen with light brown hair and hazel eyes.
He is 5'2" and weighs 105 pounds.
They also want to find 12-year-old Cameron Thompson, an African-American child who is 5'0" and weighs 115 pounds.
He has black hair and brown eyes.
Williams says the boys are adopted brothers.
They had been placed on restriction at home for bad grades on their report cards, but Anderson Police don't believe they are dangerous.
They say the boys come from a family that has been involved in hunting and camping.
McCants Middle School, Midway Elementary School, Calhoun Academy of the Arts and T.L. Hannah High School in Anderson District Five have been put on lockdown as a precaution.
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