Police will scale back their search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont almost one week after he vanished from a property in South Australia’s outback. “We’re confident that we’ve done absolutely everything we can to locate Gus within the search area, but despite our best efforts, we have not been able to locate him, and unfortunately, we are now having to scale back this search for Gus,” he said. Camera Icon The search for missing four-year-old August 'Gus' will be scaled back. “We will not rest until we can try and find the answer, why Gus has gone missing,” he said. Meanwhile, police phone lines have been flooded with “opinions” on the whereabouts of August, also known as Gus.