Vancouver police are asking the public to help them solve the cases of five young men who went missing in the last year.
The case that is still fresh on many people’s minds is that of Matthew Huszar, a young geologist who mysteriously vanished from Downtown Vancouver on the night of December 16. Huszar was last seen walking on Water Street after leaving a Gastown pub. He was supposed to be leaving for Victoria the following day, but never arrived.
He was wearing black dress pants, a white-and-blue-checked shirt, black shoes and a dark green tweed.
He is 25 years old, white, 5’11″ tall and weighs 160 pounds.
Twenty-year-old Brian Mbaruk was last seen on a bus headed for Grouse Mountain on November 18 of last year. He planned to go on a day hike in the North Shore Mountains. An extensive two-day search was conducted, but no trace of him was found.
Brian is black, 6’2″ tall and weighs 170 pounds.
Mitchell Gallivan, 19, was last seen on October 19, 2011, on his bike in southwest Vancouver at 2:30 in the afternoon. In the past, he has left without notice for extended periods and travelled throughout the province, staying in commune farms in the interior and on Vancouver Island, but he would always return to Vancouver.
He is white, 6’3″ tall and weighs 190 lbs.
Daniel Michael Holt was reported missing by his mother on September 12, 2011. He lived on his boat moored in Mosquito Creek Marina in North Vancouver and was previously employed by a software company in Victoria. He is 29 years old, white, 5’11″ tall and weighs 170 pounds. He is not a drug user and does not abuse alcohol.
Permadech Tatti was reported missing to the VPD by a family friend on March 20, 2011. He is from Thailand and came to Canada to attend school. Permadech recently dropped out and his work visa expires in September 2012. He is a 21-year-old Thai man, 6’1″ tall and weighs 165 pounds. He was last seen on March 11, 2011, by a neighbour, sitting in front of his home in southwest Vancouver with a large suitcase.
Police say there are no indicators or leads suggesting foul play was involved in any of these disappearances. They also say there are no links between these files and each of the five missing persons has distinct differences and circumstances surrounding their disappearances.
Sergeant Kirk Star with the Missing Persons Unit says despite what might seem like a recent spike in the number of missing person’s cases, they close and solve 99.9 per cent of them.
In 2011 alone, Vancouver police investigated 3,691 missing person’s reports.
If you have any information on these missing persons, please contact the Vancouver Police Missing Persons Unit at 604-717-2530, your local police or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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