The search for Brian Laundrie in a Florida wildlife preserve is going to be 'scaled back,' local police said

• The search for Brian Laundrie inside a Florida nature preserve will be "scaled back" this week, police said.
• North Port Police Department spokesman Josh Taylor told Insider the FBI is now leading the search.
• Law enforcement agencies have been searching the vast Carlton Reserve for Gabby Petito's fiancé for more than a week.

The search for $4 fiancé Brian Laundrie inside a vast, $4 will be "scaled back" this week, local police said Monday.

Several law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have been searching the 25,000-acre Carlton Reserve in Sarasota County by air and ground for more than a week.

"I don't think you're going to see those large scale types of efforts this week," Florida's North Port Police Department spokesman Josh Taylor told Insider Monday, adding that the FBI "is now leading the search" for Laundrie.

"I'm told it will be scaled back and targeted based on intelligence," Taylor said, explaining, "Hopefully, water will lower in areas hard to currently access" inside of the swampy nature preserve.

Laundrie, 23, has been the subject of a massive manhunt since his parents reported him missing to police on September 17 - just two days after he was $4 in the then-disappearance of 22-year-old Petito.

His parents told police that Laundrie went out for a hike at the Carlton Reserve with only a backpack three days earlier and never returned to their North Port, Florida home.

Laundrie left the home, where he also lived with Petito, without a cell phone or wallet and has "no known means of communication," the family's attorney, Steven Bertolino, $4.

Bertolino said the family was worried that Laundrie may have hurt himself.

Petito's body was found at a remote campsite in Wyoming on September 19 and her death was later $4, according to a coroner's initial findings.

Last week, a federal court in Wyoming $4 in connection to the case.