A man who was found dead in a smokestack at the Pearl Brewery had been missing for a week and disappeared within the first two hours of his first day of work, according to San Antonio police.

The man, a Mexican national whose name has not yet been released, was hired last week as a contract roofer at the old Boiler House, which is being redeveloped as the Boiler House Texas Grill & Wine Garden. According to an SAPD incident report, the project’s head roofer picked the man up for work Aug. 14 and the two arrived at the site around 8 a.m.

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The head roofer told police he then sent the man to take their tools into the Boiler House, a 115-year-old structure that formerly housed the brewery’s boilers, which is connected to the smokestack by a breaching duct, which looks like a covered walkway.

An hour-and-a-half later, the head roofer reportedly went to look for the man, but couldn’t find him anywhere. He figured the man had gone home, and the head roofer started asking his coworkers if anyone knew where he went. No one knew.

At 11:10 p.m. that same day, the man’s brother called police in an attempt to report his brother as a missing person, but SAPD’s criteria for an adult missing persons report calls for the person to be gone for 48 hours.

“That call was N-coded,” said an SAPD spokeswoman, explaining that there was no report made. “We did put a BOLO [Be On the Look Out] out citywide with his description, and the man said he’d call back the next day.”

The man’s brother told police he called an SAPD substation daily to see if anyone had found the man, and last Thursday, he tried to make a missing persons report but was allegedly told he’d have to wait five days. Relatives then made copies of the man’s Mexican ID card and left a flier at the construction site.

But it wasn’t until Tuesday that the man was found.

Several workers reported smelling a foul odor coming from a small door on the bottom of the smokestack around 1 p.m. Tuesday. One worker said he’d smelled something bad for several days, but on Tuesday, “it got really bad so he decided to go into the breaching duct to determine what was causing the smell,” the report states.

He looked down into the smokestack and saw a body at the bottom, which is about 20 feet from the duct.

Police believe the man’s death was an accident, but the Bexar County medical examiner’s office has not conducted an autopsy.

A spokesman for Lasco Enterprises, which owns the restaurant that’s set to open later this year, directed a reporter to SAPD and declined to answer any questions or name the contractor.

The body of a male was pulled Maple Lake in the Cook County Forest Preserve on Tuesday morning.

Oak Lawn Police would not confirm if the body was that of Alpha Sabbithi, 27, who was reported missing by his family early Sunday morning.

Sabbithi’s car was found parked at the gate of Maple Lake at 95th Street and Wolf Road with his cell phone, car keys and wallet locked inside. A police bloodhound tracked the missing man’s scent to the lake, but it was lost there.

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Family members told police that Sabbithi had recently appeared depressed, but was not taking medication or being treated for it.

Law enforcement agencies had been searching the forest preserve for Sabbithi since Sunday.

“We were notified by forest preserve police that a body was found in the lake this morning,” Oak Lawn Division Chief Michael Kaufmann said. “At this point, official confirmation is going to have to be made by the Cook County Medical Exmainer.”

Kaufmann said that the clothing on the body was consistent with information given to police by Sabbithi’s family—a black t-shirt with the word “Hollywood” written across it in white letters, and brown cargo pants.

“Our detectives have been in contact with the family and they’re aware of what transpired,” Kaufmann said. “If this is the case, then at least they’ll have some resolution. They’re a very nice family.”

An autopsy is expected to take place at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office on Wednesday.

Ken Szeredy, who operates the boat house at Maple Lake, told Patch that the body was found at approximately 11 a.m., about seven feet offshore near where Sabbithi’s car was found.

“The fire department came with hooks and pulled the body to shore,” Szeredy said. “The body already had rigor mortis.”

Szeredy believed that a man fishing at the lake may have spotted the body and called police.

Maple Lake is 21 feet deep at its deepest and there have been others who have drowned there. Szeredy said the depth of the lake “drops off pretty quick” from the shoreline.

“They looked everywhere except for where the car was found,” Szeredy said. “It only would have taken two or three minutes to walk there from the car.”

NEWTON, NC — Searchers with a cadaver dog didn’t come up with any answers on Tuesday after combing the property of Gregory Wood Products for Ken Mohler.

Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid said it doesn’t appear, right now, that Mohler is on the property.

Mohler, 71, from Hickory, went missing last week from the business, which is located near the county landfill. The last anyone has heard from Mohler was on Thursday, when he sent text messages to his wife and boss between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. A maintenance supervisor, Mohler had gone there to repair a leak in the afternoon, according to Sheriff’s officials.

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Investigators suspect foul play.

A co-worker of Mohler’s called 911 Friday morning when he found his truck in the business’ parking lot and discovered keys and Mohler’s business cell phone in the dirt near the truck.

Searchers with the Sheriff’s Office and cadaver dog team from Jones County started searching the site on Tuesday at 9 a.m. and left around 2 p.m. A Sheriff’s Office team also searched the area on Friday.

Reid said on Tuesday that investigators were interviewing potential witnesses who may know something. Reid planned to bring everyone together Tuesday evening to consider what to do next.

An Iredell County Sheriff’s searcher also helped Catawba County on Tuesday look for Mohler.

Family members are trying to stay positive and believe Mohler is still alive.

“That’s the only way we’ll let you search is if you stay positive,” said Tammy Pettry, Ken Mohler’s sister-in-law.

Ken Mohler Jr. and his wife, Rebecca, traveled from their home in Pennsylvania to help search for his father.

Family members and friends distributed hundreds of flyers and canvassed neighborhoods in Hickory, Newton and Conover over the weekend.

They stayed behind at the site on Tuesday afternoon to continue searching and say they’ll do so until they are satisfied. How long that will take, no one could say.

“We’re just searching and believing,” Pettry said. “And this is such a huge place it’s like searching for a needle in a haystack.”

Pettry said she has searched the main building of the business at least 12 times, looking in every nook and cranny. Ken Mohler Jr. went up an industrial conveyor to look inside some silos on site and through the trailer of a transfer truck of sawdust. And they’ve also searched through outlying and dense wooded areas.

“If you can see it, we looked,” Ken Mohler Jr. said.

The family also kept their eyes on two stray dogs that have been hanging around the business. They say Ken Mohler fed and watered the dogs, even when he wasn’t working, and they were his constant companions at work.

When investigators took his truck from the site, one of the dogs followed the truck down the long road leading out from the business to Rocky Ford Road and continued on that road a bit. Family members have watched the dogs to see where they go. Ken Mohler Jr. said the strays stuck to his father like glue. One of the dogs just lies around now. On Tuesday, when a white truck that Ken Mohler used to drive left the property, the dog followed it down the road while family members called to it.

Who would want to hurt Mohler is the question the family has. Ken Mohler Jr. said, while his father is straight-forward, direct and never sugar-coated anything, he has no enemies. He said there was always a constant flow of people at his father’s house and everybody loved him.

Pettry described her brother-in-law as someone who is humble and meek and not a fighter. He had served in the military and is a “naturalist” who would know how to survive outdoors. She said while he may be in his 70s, he looks like he is in his 50s.

Ken Mohler Jr. said if his father had $50 in his pocket he would have given it to whomever could be responsible for his disappearance.

“This is just unbelievable,” Pettry said. “It’s like a nightmare you want to end.”

Pettry said for Ken Mohler Jr., the last place his father was seen is his only connection to his father because he’s not from the area.

“If they took him from here, he could be anywhere so this is the only place I know to look,” Ken Mohler Jr. said on Tuesday as he was waiting on word from the cadaver dog search.

Pettry said she believes if the person or people responsible are lazy enough to steal they want money, so family and friends plan to offer money. The family plans to start what Pettry calls a ransom fund.

Pettry said authorities have told her that Mohler might have interrupted a burglary in progress. Two motors that had been inside the building were found outside, she said.

The family also wants to get word out about Ken Mohler’s disappearance to as many people as possible.

“I don’t like the cameras stuck in my face, but you do what you’ve got to do,” Ken Mohler Jr. said.

Anyone with any information on Mohler’s disappearance is asked to call the Catawba County Sheriff’s office at 828-464-5241.

ORANGE PARK, Fla. — The Clay County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a man who they consider an “endangered missing person.”

Christopher Evan Timmers, 23, was last seen just before midnight August 16 at Senor Wings, 700 Blanding Boulevard, according to a release from CCSO Public Information Officer Mary Justino.

Timmers, who lives in the 1700 block of Eagle Watch Drive in Fleming Island, was driving a beige/gold 2008 Honda Odyssey minivan. He is 6-foot-1, 175 lbs. and has a buzz cut and brown eyes. He was wearing blue jeans, a red/white/blue Polo shirt and white tennis shoes.

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Because he has not been in contact with his family since his disappearance, Timmers is considered to be an “endangered missing person,” according to Justino.

Anyone with information regarding Timmers or his Honda Odyssey is asked to call Det. Thomas Cotchaleovitch with the CCSO at 904-264-6512.