A search that started in the middle of the night was called off after the missing person was located at the hospital.
RCMP and Nanaimo Search and Rescue were called out to find a missing woman who was in crisis Friday, April 26. The search operation was sparked by multiple 911 calls from the 31-year-old woman’s phone that started late Thursday, April 25, and continued into the early-morning hours Friday.
“There were dozens of 911 calls from her phone,” said reserve Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman. “They were pinged to a five-kilometre radius of the Rosstown Road area.”
He said multiple RCMP members were dispatched to search for the woman, but when her phone went offline at about 1:30 a.m., Nanaimo Search and Rescue was activated and a search operation based at the parking lot next to the Beban Park Altrusa playground started at about 3 a.m.
The woman was located at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital at about 8:30 a.m.
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