A search warrant was served at a home in Canoga Park on Friday in connection with the disappearance of Gavin Smith, the 20th Century Fox executive that went missing four weeks ago.
Guns were drawn as deputies arrived at the 8600 block of Santa Susana Place in Los Angeles County and surrounded the house that was behind a wrought iron fence, reports the LA Times.
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“Information led us to this location in relation to the investigation into this missing persons case. This is an ongoing investigation,” said Steve Whitmore of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
This was one of several search warrants that have been executed in the search for the man that is a former UCLA basketball player.
Smith, 57, was last seen driving away from his home in Oak Park in his Mercedes 420E sedan on May 1. He left behind his cellphone charger and other personal items, and never returned.
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Smith works at 20th Century Fox in the movie distribution department at the Calabasas office where he has worked for 18 years. He is a LA based executive branch manager for theaters in Dallas and Oklahoma City.
There has been several reports of sightings of Smith, but none have been confirmed. (Click here to read more).
The last day Smith was seen he had told his son, Evan that he had decided to leave the family, reports the Daily Beast.
“Evan stopped talking to his dad,” D. Gordon Van Tassell, a long-time friend of Smith’s said. “He was pissed at him and didn’t want to talk to him, and that really hurt Gavin’s feelings. That was really painful. Now, was he heart-broken enough to drive off a cliff? No way. He was hurt; he was concerned. All of the things we feel when our kids are mad at us. But I know that Gavin really wanted to be with his family and he always had hope that it would work out.”
Because of few clues in Gavin’s disappearance, searches were canceled in mid May, although law enforcment is still working the case.
Smith’s family was reaching out to the media, but shortly after it was reported he was seen with a woman in Morro Bay, they stopped and hired a publicist to speak for them.
The publicist stated that “there were certainly family issues,” but would not elaborate.
A source told the Daily Beast that the family was “upside down” on their house that they had purchased several years back and they were trying to sell it and their marriage was on the rocks, but did not believe it would be enough to cause him to abandon the family.
The family has announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to Smith’s whereabouts.
“If he is alive, we want to find him,” says Chief of Detectives Bill McSweeney. “He is still missing and we don’t have any hot clues. We don’t have any great direction. We really just don’t know. A guy with an interesting life, and we don’t know if it will ever explain his disappearance. It is a big sad family situation.”
Gavin is 6’6″ tall, 210 pounds with grey hair with blond highlights, green eyes and he has a goatee. He also has a 5″ scar on his calf and a 4″ scar on his inner right wrist.
He was last seen wearing purple pants and black and grey shoes.
His car has padded storage racks on the roof, tinted windows and California license #6EKT044.
