15 search teams to scour Sooke trails for missing woman this weekend

Search-and-rescue teams are briefly pausing their efforts to find a Victoria woman missing near Sooke as they prepare for an expanded push on the w...

December 16, 2022
3:54 AM

Search-and-rescue teams are briefly pausing their efforts to find a Victoria woman missing near Sooke as they prepare for an expanded push on the weekend. Paul Berry of Comox Search and Rescue said 15 or more teams from Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland will search for 38-year-old Melissa McDevitt on Saturday and Sunday. In the meantime, RCMP officers and police dogs are continuing to scour the area's many trails through tough terrain for the missing woman, whose vehicle was found Saturday in the parking lot at the Charters Creek fish hatchery, a few kilometres from Sooke Potholes.

Jeff Bell