Household pleads for solutions after 2 males mysteriously disappear close to Blanding

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BLANDING — An investigation into the mysterious disappearance of two finest associates is unfolding in San Juan County. The San Juan County Sheriff’s Workplace is saying little or no, however on Friday, they served a search warrant at residence, and household and associates are explaining why they imagine it is suspicious.

They desperately hope for solutions and hope the general public will help the boys return residence safely.

To Jeff LeBlanc, Christopher Owens — who goes by Toph or Topher — is sort of a little brother. LeBlanc has recognized Owens for about 15 years, and so they speak a few times per week. They’ve stored in contact whereas Owens works in southern Utah with one other longtime buddy William Bull.

“They had been doing restoration and the mechanical stuff. They had been constructing some off-road rigs and that was fairly cool,” LeBlanc stated.

However simply over per week and a half in the past, on Feb. 26, all communication from Owens dropped off.

“His cousin texted me, is like, ‘Hey, have you ever heard from him?'” LeBlanc stated. She stated she responded, “Oh, I talked to him a couple of week in the past, however that was the final time I talked to him.”

It appeared nobody might attain Owens or Bull, who goes by Drew. Bull did not return residence to his spouse and three children in Moab.

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LeBlanc stated he initially thought the 2 had taken off to go tenting however turned involved by the invention made within the room Owens is renting in Blanding.

“His pockets is at his home,” he stated. “All the pieces that he would usually take with him is sitting on this room that he stays in,” LeBlanc stated.

LeBlanc stated it made him really feel sick to his abdomen.

“It is actually like he disappeared into skinny air, and we now have no solutions,” he stated.

The San Juan County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced on March 1, 4 days after the 2 had been final seen, that they had been lacking.

“Info signifies the males left from the Blanding, Utah, space; nonetheless, their path of journey is unknown, and we imagine they might be in a black Dodge pickup truck,” the sheriff’s workplace wrote in a Fb put up.

On Friday, the sheriff’s workplace up to date the put up to say that different companies at the moment are serving to them with the case and that they served a search warrant on a residence in Blanding concerning the 2 lacking males.

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“The investigation remains to be ongoing, and the boys are nonetheless lacking,” the workplace wrote.

It pointed KSL TV to its Fb put up and didn’t have some other info to launch upon a number of calls to the division on Friday.

The sheriff’s workplace stated the companies serving to them embody the State Bureau of Investigation, the Utah Freeway Patrol, the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace, and the Unified Police Division.

“For him simply to go utterly darkish, you already know, it is simply, it is not OK. It is not proper,” LeBlanc stated. “One thing’s up.”

He’s hoping that anybody dwelling in Blanding or touring down there can preserve a watch out for Owens and Bull.

Wherever the 2 are, LeBlanc hopes they will dangle in there.

“I really like you, man,” he stated, getting choked up. “Simply need you to come back residence.”

Christopher “Topher” Owens is 28 years previous, 5 toes, 6 inches tall, weighs 125 kilos, has black hair and several other tattoos, in addition to nostril and lip piercings. The tattoos embody a rose tattoo on his left hand, a pink flower tattoo on his left hand, a “Disengage” tattoo on his chest and a forearm sleeve.

William “Drew” Bull is 29 years previous, 6 toes, 4 inches tall, weighs 280 kilos, has brown hair, and tattoos. His tattoos embody a rose tattoo on his left hand, Jeep grille on his left forearm, diamonds on his proper forearm and elbow, and a automotive tattoo on his proper forearm.

Anybody with info ought to name the San Juan County Sheriff’s Workplace at 435-587-2237.

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