Police Update Salmon River Road Search

UPDATE 3:15 pm

RCMP didn’t have a lot new to say about their extensive search of a North Okanagan farm property.

Corporal Dan Moskaluk told the media, they haven’t identified the remains found last weekend and it’s too soon to link them to up to five missing woman from the area.

He says the investigation remains fluid, and he didn’t know how long officers would remain at the site.

John Simpson’s daughter Ashley has been missing since hitchhiking near Salmon Arm in April 2016, and he’s frustrated at the lack of information from Mounties.

“It’s worrisome. We know there’s six families on the edge right now trying to find out the answers, and we’re not getting any answers from anybody, so it’s pretty horrendous,” said Simpson from his home in Ontario.

Simpson tells Global News, it looks like the Pickton investigation all over again.

Moskaluk says the investigation on Salmon River Road is one of the largest in the RCMP’s SouthEast District in a decade.

RCMP will be providing an update today on the search of a farm property in the North Okanagan.

Corporal Dan Moskaluk will hold a media briefing at 2209 Salmon River Road at 3 pm.

Police have been searching the site since last Thursday, with numerous officers, an excavator and heavy equipment.

Human remains were found on the property last weekend but no other details have been provided.

Curtis Sagmoen — who could be a person of interest in the case — appears in Vernon court tomorrow (Thursday) on other charges.