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UPDATE: Quesnel RCMP looking for more dash cam footage in disappearance of Andrew Charles Ward

Ward was last seen on May 9, 2020 and police are asking for the public’s help in locating him
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Quesnel RCMP are appealing to the public again for more dash cam video in the missing persons case of Andrew Charles Ward.

“We are asking anyone who may have dash cam video from May 9, 2020 between the hours of 7:30 p.m. and midnight on Baker Drive, Pinnacles Road, and/or Pinnacles Sub Road, to please call the Quesnel RCMP,” noted Sgt. Richard Weseen Wednesday, media relations officer for the Quesnel RCMP Detachment, on May 20.

Ward was last seen Saturday, May 9 on the Pinnacles Sub Road near Quesnel. He was reported missing to police on May 12.

RCMP have also previously asked for dash cam video for Saturday, May 9, 2020 between the hours of 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. anywhere on Barkerville Highway (Highway 26) in addition to Baker Creek to Bear Valley Road.

Ward is described as having short, dark, salt and pepper hair and a scruffy beard. He is 5’8”, has a skinny build, wears glasses and both his arms are covered in tattoos.

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No other personal details regarding Ward have been released by RCMP.

The RCMP’s major crime unit is now assisting Quesnel RCMP in the search for the 61-year-old missing Quesnel man.

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Andrew Ward please contact Quesnel RCMP at 250 992-9211 or Crime Stoppers at 1(800) 222-8477.

The disappearance of Ward is the second missing persons case in as many weeks for Quesnel.

RCMP are also investigating the missing persons case of 33 year-old Louis Korkowski who was last seen May 4 on the west side of Quesnel. On Tuesday, May 5, RCMP issued a news release asking the public to assist them in locating Korkowski and what they referred to as “two vehicles of interest.” On May 6, human remains were discovered west of Quesnel, however, police have yet to identify those remains.

RCMP have not said whether they suspect criminality in the Ward missing persons case.



sasha.sefter@quesnelobserver.com

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