Missing Sarm Heslop’s boyfriend spotted on boat that British girlfriend disappeared from: eyewitness

It has now been greater than two weeks since Sarm Heslop vanished within the U.S. Virgin Islands from the boat owned by her boyfriend, Ryan Bane. 

Bane has laid low since then, refusing to reply questions by police and resisting efforts to look his boat. But now Jeff Jones, who lives within the U.S. Virgin Islands and has assisted within the search for Heslop, mentioned he spotted Bane on the catamaran Wednesday morning. 

“This morning I did happen to see Mr. Bane on the vessel, standing inside the salon,” Jones told “America’s Newsroom” Wednesday. 

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Jones additionally mentioned that the timeline of the night time Heslop went lacking is tough for him to know. 

“We keep trying to figure out how to fill in this timeline with all the empty spaces,” he mentioned Wednesday. “It’s a puzzle. The more we dig, we’ll find more pieces and eventually put it together, but we gotta keep digging.”

The couple went to dinner on the night on March 7 earlier than returning to Bane’s boat, Siren Song, which was moored roughly 50 yards offshore in Frank Bay. 

The supervisor of the restaurant the place the couple ate dinner, 420 to Center, confirmed that they left round 10 p.m. as a result of island’s curfew and didn’t discover something out of the unusual. 

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Bane awoke round 2:30 a.m. on March 8 and found that Heslop was lacking, at which level he known as 911 then “traveled to meet members of the [Virgin Islands Police Department] to give a statement regarding Sarm,” in keeping with his lawyer. 

The VIPD instructed Bane to contact the U.S. Coast Guard, which he did roughly 10 hours later at 11:46 a.m.

“As part of the search and rescue effort, the Coast Guard went aboard the vessel to interview and gather information from the reporting source,” a Coast Guard spokesperson beforehand instructed Fox News. “Later, the Coast Guard returned to the vessel to conduct a standard vessel safety check to ensure proper equipment and compliance with applicable rules and regulations for vessel type and operation.”

The Coast Guard and native authorities discovered no signal of Heslop within the surrounding waters or on land regardless of an intensive search. 

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The search continues although, and the FBI is now aiding native authorities of their efforts. 

“We can confirm that we are supporting local law enforcement in their investigative efforts,” an FBI spokeswoman instructed Fox News on Wednesday. “All we are doing is providing support in any way that they need. For the most part it’s really just support of their investigation.”

Jones mentioned search efforts not too long ago have targeted on the encompassing lands, utilizing drones to map out areas that cannot be reached by foot.