Please attribute to Detective Senior Sergeant Megan Goldie, Waitemata Police
Police investigators are continuing their efforts to find missing man Denver Chance, as today marks nine days since he was last seen.
Denver left the flat where he rents a room in Mairangi Bay, North Shore, around 3.30pm on Sunday 24th February in his red Nissan Skyline.
CCTV footage has captured his vehicle travelling south at 4.17pm on the Southern Motorway near Drury. This is the last known sighting of his car.
Police have been searching the area over the past week with the Police Eagle helicopter conducting searches of the Drury and wider South Auckland area for his car. Police also conducted ground searches in Bombay/Karaka near the cell-phone tower that picked up his last cell-phone activity.
Senior Sergeant Megan Goldie says his phone data indicates that he may have been in the Irwin Road, Karaka, area between 11pm and 12am on Sunday the 24th February.
Police contacted his bank and phone provider, and have discovered he hasn’t made any calls on his cellphone or used his bank cards since last Sunday. Police have also contacted Immigration and confirmed he has not left the country.
Detective Senior Sergeant Megan Goldie is urging anyone with a dash camera who was travelling on the Southern Motorway on the evening of Sunday 24th to contact Police. Anyone who was travelling around the Karaka area is also encouraged to contact Police.
“We believe finding and tracing his car will be crucial to finding Denver. So we need people to come forward with any information or footage that may be able to help us trace him.”
“Police are still treating this as a missing person’s case, but as time passes us by, we are becoming more concerned that something may have happened to him.”
Police are working closely with Denver’s family who are desperate to find him.
Anyone with information is urged to contact 0800 FIND DC or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Media note: The 0800 number previously supplied in media releases has been changed, please use 0800 FIND DC, or 0800 346 332 instead.
More information will be provided when it becomes available.
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Adriana Weber/NZ Police