RCMP and a tactical team searched two Nanaimo properties on Monday in connection with 16-year-old Makayla Chang, who went missing more than three weeks ago.
Police are not ruling out foul play and officers were spotted at a home on Bruce Avenue that Chang was known to frequent along with the yard of a neighbouring property.
Chang went missing in Nanaimo last month. Earlier this week, police said they believe she could have travelled to Metro Vancouver with 53-year-old Steven Michael Bacon.
Police located Bacon last week and spoke with him but did not call him a suspect.
On April 2, RCMP searched an area around Colliery Dam in relation to Chang’s disappearance.
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Chang is five-foot-one and 110 pounds with dyed red hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a grey hoodie and multi-coloured leggings. She wears glasses and has piercings in her lip and in the skin above her upper lip. She also wears wigs and may dress as a male at times. She also goes by the names of Kayla or Finn.
Anyone with information about Chang’s whereabouts is asked to contact Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345 or at 1-800-222-8477 if they wish to remain anonymous.
— With files from Jill Slattery