Image Credit: Iwaasa Family

By Ashley Legassic

MARSHAL IWAASA

Alberta family asking Kamloops residents, merchants to jog their memory to help in missing person investigation

Dec 4, 2019 | 4:49 PM

KAMLOOPS — A woman whose brother has been missing from Lethbridge, Alta. for more than two weeks is asking people in and around Kamloops to look closely at his picture.

Marshal Iwaasa, 26, was last seen leaving his mother’s house in Lethbridge on Sunday, Nov. 17.

“He had told her that he was going to go back up to Calgary,” his sister, Paige Fogen, tells CFJC Today.

But there’s no sign Iwaasa made it there. On Nov. 25, a burned-out vehicle was found by Pemberton RCMP in British Columbia. Calgary Police say the vehicle is believed to belong to Iwaasa. When his family was notified of the found vehicle, they reported Iwaasa as missing.

“My family doesn’t really have ties (to BC), we don’t go there typically, so that’s why it’s concerning,” Fogen says. “There’s lots of stations they could have stopped to fuel up, I mean, my brother’s truck goes through quite a bit of gas and to get into that area (Pemberton) is quite far so they would have had to fuel up for gas.”

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Fogen says her family is relying on the public to jog their memory, to see if they’ve seen Iwaasa or his truck after Nov. 17.

“Really, call their RCMP or call their local police to help us kind of track and see where Marshal was or where his truck was,” Fogen says.

She adds that so far police haven’t been able to find any evidence in the area where Iwaasa’s truck was found, so the family is asking communities that would be on the route from Lethbridge to Pemberton for help.

Iwaasa is described as 5’11”, about 170 lbs. with brown eyes, shoulder-length brown hair (usually worn tied back) and a mustache. When he was last seen, he was wearing a green hoody, a grey toque, red hi-top shoes, and black pants.

His truck is described as a dark blue 2009 GMC Sierra with Alberta plates BLL 1099.

If you know anything about the disappearance of Iwaasa or saw him or his truck after Nov. 17, call your local police detachment or Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 222-8477.

The family is urging the public to join the Facebook page they’ve made for the search for Iwaasa. You can find the page here.

— With files from Lethbridge News Now.