By Michael McGough | Sacramento Bee
After an enormous two-week search effort by a number of organizations, a volunteer workforce of divers on Sunday mentioned it had situated the automobile and presumed physique of Kiely Rodni, a Northern California teen who had been lacking since early August and was final seen at a big occasion close to Truckee.
“Automobile is the wrong way up in solely 14 (toes) of water” at Prosser Reservoir, Adventures with Objective introduced in a Fb submit simply after 2:30 p.m. “We've got CONFIRMED Kiely is inside.
“Household Notified. Legislation Enforcement on their method.”
The Nevada County Sheriff’s Workplace in a social media submit shortly after 3:30 p.m. mentioned it was “conscious of this data” and that deputies had been “en route to fulfill with Adventures With Objective.”
“We'll present extra data when it turns into accessible,” sheriff’s officers wrote.
Kiely disappeared round 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 6 after attending a celebration of between 200 and 300 teenagers and younger adults at Prosser Household Campground, situated inside Tahoe Nationwide Forest, in keeping with Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace and Nevada County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Search events together with volunteers and regulation enforcement officers over the previous two weeks have undertaken huge search efforts for her and her automobile, a silver Honda CR-V, which additionally had not been seen because the evening of the occasion. Earlier Sunday, the Sheriff’s Workplace in a social media submit mentioned personnel had mixed for almost 20,000 hours of search time.
Adventures with Objective is an “underwater sonar search and restoration dive workforce serving to households find lacking family members underwater,” in keeping with its verified Fb web page. Its YouTube web page has greater than 2 million subscribers.
Legislation enforcement officers as of three:30 p.m. had not confirmed the dive workforce’s discovery.
“We might be on scene the remainder of the day, may have a reside stream tomorrow, and can make an announcement as to what time later this afternoon,” Adventures with Objective’s Fb submit continued.
Placer sheriff’s officers on Aug. 7, the day after her disappearance, posted a video exhibiting Kiely’s mom tearfully pleading for the group’s assist, and for her daughter to return house.
Detectives investigated the likelihood Kiely had been kidnapped. Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace spokeswoman Angela Musallam mentioned this was a part of the company’s protocol as a result of her automobile was additionally lacking.
From native sheriff’s places of work to the FBI, authorities obtained greater than 1,800 citizen suggestions relating to Kiely’s disappearance, in keeping with a Sunday morning replace from Placer authorities.
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