BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Law enforcement officers in Southern California searched in rugged mountain terrain for a second day on Sunday for a missing F.B.I. agent who was said to be despondent and possibly suicidal.
About 100 F.B.I. agents, 40 Sheriff’s Department rescuers and a dozen local police officers participated in the search for the missing agent, Stephen Ivens.
Special Agent Steve Gomez of the F.B.I. said dogs had tracked Agent Ivens’s scent toward the Verdugo Mountains, east of Burbank, but searchers have fanned out across Los Angeles County.
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Agent Ivens, 35, who works in the F.B.I.’s Los Angeles bureau, was last seen by family members on Thursday evening, the authorities said. He left his Burbank home the next morning on foot and had not been seen since, F.B.I. officials said at a news conference. His wife reported him missing Friday at 7:30 a.m.
Agent Ivens was distraught, and the authorities fear he may have harmed himself, KABC-TV reported, but officials did not elaborate.
A search of his home did not turn up his handgun, and police believe he may have taken it with him.
He is married with a 1-year-old child and has been working for the F.B.I. for the last three years in the national security area, an F.B.I. spokeswoman said. Before that, he worked as a Los Angeles police officer for eight years.
Agent Gomez told reporters that foul play was not suspected and that Agent Ivens was not believed to pose a threat to others.
