The search for a 40-year-old man who has disappeared from the Comox Valley appears to have spread to the Vancouver area.
Karen Smith, the mother of the missing man Justin Stanley Smith, said the RCMP had been in contact with her and believed they had photos of her son using ATMs in the Vancouver area on Thursday night and again on Friday.
“This is good news,” Smith told CTV News from his home in Nova Scotia. “He hasn’t been found yet, but we know he’s still walking, he’s still alive, that’s the big thing.”
Justin was last heard from on May 27 and had to take his good friend Legion Brooks, from whom he had borrowed a car.
Brooks and others were worried when Justin didn’t show up and also failed to pay rent at his place in Fanny Bay, British Columbia.
Friends do a thorough search in the back of Vancouver Island, knowing that it is in the open.
“He’s a very open person and I know he can survive in the bushes. He really has a lot of friends in the Vancouver area,” she said.
“His friends gave him – I can’t even imagine – thousands of dollars,” Smith said. “Only one took an eight-day break, he gave over $ 800 in fuel to look for it.”
Smith said she was very grateful to those who sought out her son, including help from the RCMP and the media.
She says she believes her son was in a bad mood after the death of a very good friend recently and other problems from his past.
“It’s really unusual for Justin. This is so uncharacteristic of him. “Obviously something is happening that we don’t know about,” she said.
She says the case of the missing person has been transferred to Vancouver police.
“They have a video from last night, they were 99.9 percent sure it was Justin,” she said. “He has used his bank card about three times in the last 24 hours.”
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