According to Manitoba RCMP, the Underwater Recovery Team has completed their work following the discovery of a boat on the shore of the Nelson River. They will not be conducting any additional dives.
A police roadblock has been put in place in the Sundance, Man., area for ongoing search efforts.
As reported by the News-Optimist’s sister publication, the Alaska Highway News, Canada-wide warrants have been issued for Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, who are charged with second-degree murder in connection to the death of Leonard Dyck, who was found a few kilometres from the teens’ burned-out pickup truck on Highway 37 near Dease Lake July 19.
The Port Alberni childhood friends are also suspects in the killings of American Chynna Deese and Australian Lucas Fowler. Their bodies were found along the Alaska Highway on July 15 near a van they had been travelling in.
Charges have yet to be announced in that investigation.
They were last confirmed to have been seen on July 22 in Gillam, where they torched and abandoned the vehicle they were last seen driving.
