RCMP to conduct large-scale ground, air search for Skownan man missing 8 months

RCMP plan to mount a large-scalesearch over the weekend for a man from an Interlake First Nation who has been missing since fall.

The airand ground search forDwayne Lavallee, 21, will take place on Saturday and Sunday in the rural municipality of Lakeshore, where theSkownan First Nation man's vehicle was recovered eight months ago.

Lavallee has been missingsince the afternoon of Sept. 22, 2018, andwas last seen inEbb and Flow First Nation.

On Sept. 26, his vehicle was found in Lakeshore, about 60 kilometres north of Ebb and Flow and 240 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

The family has held marches to raise awareness and a cash reward has been offered for information. Police have interviewed 80 people since Lavallee's disappearance, RCMP said in a new release Friday.

Lavallee is about 6-foot-2 and weighs 200 pounds. He has a small tattoo of a cross on his left hand, and another tattoo on his right arm that reads "can't stop."

RCMP ask anyone with information regarding his whereabouts to contactSte. Rose du Lac RCMP at 204-447-3082or call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.

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