Police Searching For Transgender Man Missing Days After Car Found Along NJ River

A search involving multiple law enforcement agencies is under way for a 32-year-old transgender man missing for three days.

Elliot Ganiel
Photo Credit: *Northfield PD*

Cecilia Levine

03/05/2024 5:57 p.m.

Northfield resident Elliot Ganiel's vehicle was found at the Mullica River Canoe Landing in Batsto, local police said. Ganiel's personal items were left behind, and his family reported him missing Saturday, March 2.

According to 6abc, state troopers brought a K-9 onto a boat and went over the same section of the river numerous times, at one point using an underwater camera.

The Northfield Police Department, the New Jersey State Police, New Jersey State Park Police, NJOEM, Atlantic County OEM, Hamilton Township PD, Atlantic County Sheriff’s Office, Beach Haven PD, Egg Harbor Township, Sweetwater VFC, Atlantic County SAR, Camden County SAR and numerous dive teams, K-9’s, drone units and FLIR systems are searching for Ganiel.

Please submit tips to the Northfield Police Department at 609-641-3122. Detective Matthew Locotos is the lead case agent.

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