Dakota Valkyrie
June 5th, 2008, 02:08 AM
Searching for Brandon Swanson
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Missing since May 14th.
A man from our area is leading the search for a missing 19-year-old near Marshall.
Gary Peterson of Spring Valley was working with Brandon Swanson's family this weekend. The teen went missing in southwestern Minnesota nearly three weeks ago after his car went into a ditch.
The last contact with his family was a phone call that ended abruptly on May 14th.
Peterson says they are zeroing in on an area where he believes Brandon might be. "Right now we're going from the point where his car was located at, we're going southeast in the Taunton in the river area and then we're going to be expanding the search around Taunton as well because I believe he's in the water out north of Taunton somewhere.”
Previous searchers have focused on areas near the Yellow Medicine River.http://kaaltv.com/article/stories/S465049.shtml?cat=10219
Father: Son seemed fine during call
Swanson has been missing since early Wednesday morning after he called his parents to tell them he drove his car into a ditch. It was later learned Swanson had run into the ditch near the Yellow Medicine River.
Brandon Swanson is a 2007 graduate of Marshall High School and student at Minnesota West college in Canby.
Brandon Swanson was apparently returning home to Marshall from Canby on Wednesday morning when he was on a field road and ran into the ditch on the county border road.
Brian Swanson said his son was not impaired at the time when he used his cell phone to call his parents.
“I talked to him for 47 minutes on the cell phone,” Brian Swanson said. “I think in that time I could tell if my son was impaired or not. He seemed perfectly fine until the last words I heard him say and the phone went dead.”
Lyon County Sheriff Joel Dahl said officers have learned that Swanson had been drinking alcohol before the accident, but there is no information to indicate Swanson was impaired or how much he drank.
Officials also found a pipe that apparently could be used for drugs, but it has not yet been tested for drugs and it is not known if the pipe was Swanson’s or if it was used for drugs, Dahl said.
“There was no blood in the car, there were no beer cans...” Dahl said. There was nothing to indicate Swanson had been impaired, Dahl said.
Dahl said cellular telephone records said that Swanson called his parents at about 1:54 a.m. Wednesday and his parents called him back at about 2:23 a.m.
“That (2:23) phone call was at least 47 minutes,” Dahl said.
At some point during the conversation, Brandon Swanson was walking and describing a fence line and water to his father, Dahl said. The phone call ended abruptly, Dahl said.
The parents contacted the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dahl said. The initial search started near Lynd where Swanson told his parents his car was, Dahl said.
Dahl said the cellular telephone company was able to trace the cell phone calls to about five miles within a tower near Minneota. Law enforcement used that information later on Wednesday to find Swanson’s car near Taunton, Dahl said.
Dahl said law enforcement expected Brandon Swanson’s cell phone to not work but when they made calls to it during the day on Wednesday and Thursday, the phone rang and eventually calls were directed to his voice mail.
Later Thursday, calls were immediately directed to Brandon Swanson’s voicemail, which likely meant the phone’s battery needed to be charged, Dahl said.
Brandon Swanson did not not call 911, Dahl said.
Brian Swanson said his son would not have staged a disappearance and caused a search.
“Brandon and I and his mother (and family) are very close,” Brian Swanson said. “We get along. We have a very open relationship.”
His son would not have harmed himself, Brian Swanson said. “He still has plans,” he said. “That’s why he wouldn’t do that.”http://www.marshallindependent.com/page/content.detail/id/501860.html?nav=5015
Did he fall into the river? Did he stage this? Either way it's bad news for someone.
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Missing since May 14th.
A man from our area is leading the search for a missing 19-year-old near Marshall.
Gary Peterson of Spring Valley was working with Brandon Swanson's family this weekend. The teen went missing in southwestern Minnesota nearly three weeks ago after his car went into a ditch.
The last contact with his family was a phone call that ended abruptly on May 14th.
Peterson says they are zeroing in on an area where he believes Brandon might be. "Right now we're going from the point where his car was located at, we're going southeast in the Taunton in the river area and then we're going to be expanding the search around Taunton as well because I believe he's in the water out north of Taunton somewhere.”
Previous searchers have focused on areas near the Yellow Medicine River.http://kaaltv.com/article/stories/S465049.shtml?cat=10219
Father: Son seemed fine during call
Swanson has been missing since early Wednesday morning after he called his parents to tell them he drove his car into a ditch. It was later learned Swanson had run into the ditch near the Yellow Medicine River.
Brandon Swanson is a 2007 graduate of Marshall High School and student at Minnesota West college in Canby.
Brandon Swanson was apparently returning home to Marshall from Canby on Wednesday morning when he was on a field road and ran into the ditch on the county border road.
Brian Swanson said his son was not impaired at the time when he used his cell phone to call his parents.
“I talked to him for 47 minutes on the cell phone,” Brian Swanson said. “I think in that time I could tell if my son was impaired or not. He seemed perfectly fine until the last words I heard him say and the phone went dead.”
Lyon County Sheriff Joel Dahl said officers have learned that Swanson had been drinking alcohol before the accident, but there is no information to indicate Swanson was impaired or how much he drank.
Officials also found a pipe that apparently could be used for drugs, but it has not yet been tested for drugs and it is not known if the pipe was Swanson’s or if it was used for drugs, Dahl said.
“There was no blood in the car, there were no beer cans...” Dahl said. There was nothing to indicate Swanson had been impaired, Dahl said.
Dahl said cellular telephone records said that Swanson called his parents at about 1:54 a.m. Wednesday and his parents called him back at about 2:23 a.m.
“That (2:23) phone call was at least 47 minutes,” Dahl said.
At some point during the conversation, Brandon Swanson was walking and describing a fence line and water to his father, Dahl said. The phone call ended abruptly, Dahl said.
The parents contacted the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dahl said. The initial search started near Lynd where Swanson told his parents his car was, Dahl said.
Dahl said the cellular telephone company was able to trace the cell phone calls to about five miles within a tower near Minneota. Law enforcement used that information later on Wednesday to find Swanson’s car near Taunton, Dahl said.
Dahl said law enforcement expected Brandon Swanson’s cell phone to not work but when they made calls to it during the day on Wednesday and Thursday, the phone rang and eventually calls were directed to his voice mail.
Later Thursday, calls were immediately directed to Brandon Swanson’s voicemail, which likely meant the phone’s battery needed to be charged, Dahl said.
Brandon Swanson did not not call 911, Dahl said.
Brian Swanson said his son would not have staged a disappearance and caused a search.
“Brandon and I and his mother (and family) are very close,” Brian Swanson said. “We get along. We have a very open relationship.”
His son would not have harmed himself, Brian Swanson said. “He still has plans,” he said. “That’s why he wouldn’t do that.”http://www.marshallindependent.com/page/content.detail/id/501860.html?nav=5015
Did he fall into the river? Did he stage this? Either way it's bad news for someone.