Signal Staff Writer
mgasca@the-signal.com
Posted: Oct. 31, 2009 7:45 p.m.
Sheriff's Search and Rescue units continued to search Saturday in a wash near Live Oak Road in Castaic for a missing 18-year-old Valencia High School student.
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Lt. Robert Lewis said scent dogs picked up a possible scent from Brigett Andrea Kennemore, a developmentally disabled Newhall resident who hasn't been seen since she got off a public bus on Monday.
"Our dogs picked up a scent of her (Friday); I believe she lives in close proximity to there," said Lt. Robert Lewis. Lewis added that Kennemore's boyfriend lives within a mile of the search area.
However, Lewis said the scent could be from a family member who has been searching for Kennemore in that area.
"We don't know if family members were looking there as well," said Lt. Robert Lewis.
Lewis said detectives have been actively searching for Kennemore since Monday.
"The only place we haven't been able to search was the wash basin area adjacent to Live Oak Road," he said.
Search and Rescue teams on foot and quad runners scoured the wash basin Friday and Saturday without the help of scent dogs,
Lewis said. A helicopter unit also assisted with the search.
"It's basically a dust bowl and dogs can't sniff in a dust bowl," he said.
Search and Rescue units stopped their search about 5 p.m. after finding nothing in the wash, said Sgt. Tom Jensen.
Kennemore was last seen walking on Hasley Canyon Road about 4:20 p.m. Monday.
Kennemore is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall and 160 pounds with blonde hair and hazel eyes. She was carrying a black and blue purse.
Detectives have advised local residents with information about Kennemore's location to immediately contact Detective T. Abraham or Detective Diane M. Harris at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau, Missing Persons Detail. Phone (323) 890-5500.
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