Sheriff’s divers Sunday continued their search in the California Aqueduct for two elderly brothers reported missing from Glendale who headed to the Lancaster area to go fishing.
The investigation was being handled by a detective in the sheriff’s Homicide Bureau/Missing Persons Unit, according to a watch commander at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Lancaster’s station. That detective could not be reached for comment Sunday.
Divers initially began the search at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Deputy M. Chen told City News Service. Authorities said it was possible the men fell into the water while fishing.
The report was followed by a missing persons bulletin advising that 86-year-old Minas Khacheryan and his 78-year-old brother, Grigor Khacheryan, were last seen at 8 a.m. Friday in the 1000 block of East Chevy Chase Drive in the city of Glendale.
Minas was described as 5-feet-4 inches tall, 180 pounds, with short, balding gray hair, blue eyes and a goatee. He has a heart condition and is missing his left eye.
Grigor was described as 5-feet-5 inches tall, 140 pounds, with short, balding gray hair and brown eyes. He recently had open-heart surgery.
Anyone with information about the pair was asked to call the sheriff’s Missing Persons Unit at 323-890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.