Wednesday will mark two weeks since a young Magoffin County father was last seen by his family.

Crews initially searched for 29-year-old Freddy Brown near the area of his home, but they couldn’t find any sign of him after he disappeared on February 27. Investigators suspended a ground search due to what they called a “lack of evidence.”

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However, the rescue squad in Magoffin County told LEX 18 they plan to resume looking. The missing person’s case has also been turned over to state police.

Officials say foul play has not been ruled out.

Friends and family members of a missing 31-year-old Oakland woman walked the neighborhood Monday where she was last seen four days earlier, hoping for tips on where she is.

Erica Maskaleris has not been seen since a surveillance camera at the Taste of Denmark bakery at 34th Street and Telegraph Avenue, down the street from her home, filmed her at 8 a.m. Thursday.

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The footage shows Maskaleris wearing running clothes – a gray sweatshirt, gray sweat pants and red shoes – and walking purposefully, “like she was warming up,” said her nephew Courtney Lopez, 19, who traveled from his home in Fresno to help with the search.

Maskaleris often runs in the morning, Lopez said. Sometimes she takes the bus or drives to Lake Merritt and runs there, he said.

Relatives, friends and volunteers passed out flyers with Maskaleris’ picture Monday at the MacArthur BART Station, at bus stops and street corners.

Maskaleris never returned Thursday to the home she shares with another nephew, Patrick Lopez. Concern deepened when she failed to make a flight Friday morning to see her brother in Texas.

Maskaleris owns GeekoSystems, an Oakland computer service and repair company.

“Initially, we thought that it might have been just, kind of, she was running away to get away from something, but we now know that is not the case,” Courtney Lopez said. He would not elaborate, saying Oakland police had asked him not to.

Without elaborating, police said Monday that after being reported missing, Maskaleris was seen in West Oakland. In a statement, police added that investigators “are not asking for the assistance of the media and the community.”

Courtney Lopez said, “We have reason to believe she’s still alive and well and she’s still out there.”

Maskaleris is Latino, 5 feet 3 inches tall and 220 pounds, with brown eyes and dark brown, curly hair.

Her family is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts. Anyone with information is asked to call Oakland police at (510) 777-3333.

The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office is requesting assistance with locating a missing Port Charlotte Man.

CCSO deputies are attempting to locate 59-year-old Peter Berdayes. He was last seen Friday between 8am and 1pm at The Haven, 603 Woodberry Drive in Port Charlotte, where he simply walked off the property and has not returned to his residence.

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Berdayes is described to be 5’09’’/190lbs medium build, either dark brown or black slicked back medium length hair, mustache and is possibly wearing black framed glasses. Peter does have some medical issues and does not have his medicine with him. He was last seen wearing a light blue t-shirt, a black jacket and black pants.

Berdayes may be in the general area of coffee shops that he likes to frequent. It is also possible he may intend to go back to the Miami area as this is where he formerly lived.

If anyone has information on the whereabouts of Berdayes, please call the CCSO at 941-639-2101, or Crime Stoppers at 800-780-TIPS (8477).