RCMP in a community near Saint John are searching for a 22-year-old man who went missing on Wednesday.
Mitchell Veenhuis lives on Route 690 in Maquapit Lake. He is described as a six-foot-two, 160-pound man with short, light brown hair and blue eyes.
His family says it’s unlike him to leave without letting anyone know.
“Mitchell, we know this is not like you. If you’re hurt, hang on,” said his mother, Stacey Heagney.
Veenhuis works at the Sobeys in Oromocto as an assistant meat manager. He didn’t show up to work on Wednesday and his family started to worry.
"Totally, absolutely out of character,” said Heagney. “He's in touch with myself, or his brother or his friends continually. He's smart, he's a good kid, intelligent, he's got a good career, great friends.”
Veenhuis’s brother Matt says since the disappearance, family and friends have been searching for him.
"The night he went missing we started searching and we haven't stopped since,” said Matt. “It's been every dirt road, every main road, every cottage road we can find in the area where he was last seen, we've been covering."
RCMP did an aerial search with a helicopter around his home on Sunday.
His vehicle is a blue 2012 Ford Fusion. It’s believed Veenhuis was driving the vehicle the night he disappeared.
"Somebody has to have seen his car. Somebody has to have seen something. His car has to be found,” said Heagney. “We've done ground searches. We haven’t stopped since he went missing, day and night, with lights at night. We've had six cars usually out and around all the time and we've covered a think 1,100 kilometres and there's no sign of even a tree bent.”
The family says they’ll continue searching with hopes of bringing Veenhuis home safe.
With files from CTV Atlantic’s Ashley Blackford.
