HUNTS POINT, The Bronx (PIX11) — The 20-year-old father of a missing 2-year-old Bronx boy is being held at Rikers Island after allegedly telling the child’s mother he threw him in the Bronx River, according to law enforcement sources.

NYPD dive teams searched for the boy in the river near the Bruckner Expressway Monday night and for most of the day on Tuesday, but didn’t find him.

Police said the boy was last seen by his mother at 827 Hunts Point Avenue in the Bronx at around 10 p.m. on May 10. He was wearing a white shirt and a diaper.

The dad took the child, Montrell Williams, to see his paternal grandmother for Mother’s Day in Hunts Point. The father then stormed out of the home with Montrell following an argument, according to his grandmother. She spoke with PIX11 News by phone on T

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