Dive Team Searching Again, with Colton Koop Missing

The RCMP's Underwater Recovery Team is at the Swift Current Creek looking for evidence related to the November 16 disappearance of Colton Koop.

Swift Current City RCMP believe the 26-year-old Swift Current man was in possession of a red 2014 Dodge Ram 1500 that was southbound on 6th Avenue Northeast before it crossed the road, went through a guardrail, and wound up in the creek.

Colton Koop (photos submitted by Koop's family to the RCMP)

Police received a call of the truck in the creek around 6 a.m., and believe the incident could have happened as early as 2 a.m.

Speaking to media this morning, the Swift Current City RCMP's Staff Sergeant Gary Hodges said their last confirmed sighting of Koop was around 1 a.m. at a local business.

Police say Koop is not subject to any criminal investigation or charges at this point, and that the matter is being treated as a missing person investigation.

"There have been numerous tips received by the RCMP of persons stating Colton was avoiding the police," said Hodges. "However, all of this information has been followed up with numerous friends and associates of Colton's. None of them provided any information that they have had any contact from Colton or know his whereabouts."

Hodges said they haven't come across anything in the truck that seemed out of the ordinary.

"They're still thawing the truck out because it was full of ice and water, but we've got no evidence inside the vehicle that puts anybody there at this point."

The registered owner had given permission to Koop to use the truck, but Hodges said they don't have evidence to suggest Koop was indeed driving the truck.

Hodges said there hasn't been any social media activity or banking done by Koop.

Hodges also said they've been involved with Koop before in "very minor instances."

"The initial morning of the incident, we had information that he'd made contact with people, so when our underwater recovery team arrived to remove the vehicle from the creek that day, we did not ask them to go underwater because of the risks that are involved in doing that, and the information we had at that time was that Colton had made contact with other people," Hodges explained. "Now that we have been able to investigate and follow up with all those leads, we've determined that that information was not correct, so we've asked the Underwater Recovery Team to come back and check and see what else they can find under the water."

On the morning of November 16, the RCMP Police Dog Service from Swift Current was also used to search areas around the creek.

Police are asking residents in the area to cehck for anything out of the ordinary around their yards.