Middlebury Police To Assess Conditions for Garza Search
Associated Press
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Town police will re-evaluate the ground conditions on Thursday before deciding whether to launch another ground search for a Middlebury College student from New Mexico who has been missing for more than a month, the police chief said today.
Nicholas Garza, 19, of Albuquerque, was last seen just after 11 p.m. on Feb. 5 when he left a social gathering in a campus dormitory. He was reported missing by his mother five days later.
Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley said investigators were able to trace Garza's movements electronically through such things as his campus key cards and his cell phone until the moment he disappeared.
"You can construct this guy's life," Hanley said. "Everything stops at 11:06 p.m."
Search teams have used dogs and poles to probe snowbanks between the spot where Garza, a freshman, was last seen and his dormitory.
Authorities had planned to resume the search last weekend, but postponed it because of snow.
In some locations on campus there's still two feet or more of snow on the ground, Hanley said.
"We're not sure he's not on the campus," Hanley said.
The chief says that once ground conditions improve, it would take a day or so to assemble another search.
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