The RCMP says its Major Crime and General Investigations Unit have taken over the Tyson Blair MacDonald missing person file. The Mounties say that based on information investigators have gathered, Tyson’s disappearance is now being investigated as a Criminal Code Investigation. Police say they are not defining the offence at this point in time, but can say that they are investigating it as a crime. Few details of the investigation are being released at this time in order to protect the integrity of the investigation. Over the last three days, investigators have deployed RCMP Drones, and Police Dog Services to search for Tyson. Other RCMP Units assisting in the investigation include the Forensic Identification Section, RCMP Provincial General Investigation Section, Queens, Prince and Kings District RCMP, and the Division Criminal Analysis Section. As RCMP are actively searching rural areas, a large police presence may be noticed by residents in Kings County. The RCMP says that at this time, they do not require any tips on the unknown woman and the Honda Civic mentioned in Saturday’s update.
As for questions that have been raised regarding why an Amber Alert has not been issued in this case, the RCMP says that the use of Amber Alerts is strictly confined to cases where police have clear information indicating that a child is in imminent danger. They says that in this case, based on known information at the time, police did not have the needed criteria to issue an Amber Alert. A missing person is not an option in the alert ready system unless it is an Amber Alert.
