Actor Julian Sands Identified as Missing Hiker in California

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The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division revealed that human stays have been discovered close to the disappearance website of actor Julian Sands. “On Saturday, June 24, 2023, at about 10:00 a.m., civilian hikers contacted the Fontana Sheriff’s Station after they found human stays within the Mt. Baldy wilderness,” the division wrote in an announcement on Saturday. “Fontana Station deputies, together with the Sheriff’s Division’s Emergency Operations Division, responded to the scene.”

Although the assertion didn’t point out Sands by identify, the replace famous that “the decedent was transported to the Coroner’s Workplace, pending constructive identification.” The assertion continued: “Identification ought to be accomplished subsequent week at which period we are going to replace this press launch. No additional particulars can be found at the moment.”

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The search continues. The household of Julian Sands spoke out as rescue crews continued on the lookout for the lacking actor in California.

“Our heartfelt due to the compassionate members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division who’re coordinating the seek for our beloved Julian, not least the heroic search groups listed under who’re braving tough circumstances on the bottom and within the air to carry Julian residence,” the household stated in an announcement on Monday, January 23, because the seek for Sands, 65, entered its eleventh day. “We’re deeply touched by the outpouring of affection and assist.”

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division additionally introduced {that a} third hiker, Jin Chung, was reported in the identical space — Mt. Baldy — the place Sands disappeared. A seek for Chung started on Sunday, January 22, alongside the seek for Sands.

“As we enter day 11 of the seek for Julian Sands on Mt. Baldy, we’re reminded of the sheer willpower & selflessness of the entire individuals who have aided on this search,” the sheriff’s division tweeted on Monday. “We are going to proceed to make the most of the sources obtainable to us.”

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Julian Sands, identified for his work in A Room With a View and 24, was recognized as certainly one of two hikers who went lacking in Southern California on Friday, January 13.

Authorities confirmed on Wednesday, January 18, that the British actor, 65, went lacking 5 days earlier after going for a hike on a path in Mt. Baldy within the San Gabriel Mountains. Gloria Huerta, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division, stated that Sands’ spouse, Evgenia Citkowitz, reported her husband lacking on Friday.

Huerta added that rescue crews started on the lookout for Sands that day, however the floor search was suspended on Saturday, January 14, due to climate circumstances within the space. Rescue employees have continued looking for the Leaving Las Vegas star with helicopters and drones, and can resume the bottom search when climate permits.

A second hiker, Bob Gregory, was reported lacking by his household on Monday, January 16. Authorities are looking for him within the Crystal Lake space of the San Gabriel Mountains, that are positioned northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division issued a “harmful circumstances” warning for hikers on Wednesday, urging guests to “assume twice” earlier than heading out on the paths. “During the last 4 weeks, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue (SAR) Groups have responded to 14 rescue missions on Mt. Baldy and within the surrounding space,” learn an announcement shared through Fb. “These rescue missions have been for misplaced, stranded and/or injured hikers. Sadly, throughout these previous 4 weeks, two hikers didn’t survive after falling and injuring themselves. Please know the present circumstances on Mt. Baldy are antagonistic and intensely harmful.”

The put up included a photograph of a path signal warning of “excessive alpine circumstances” within the Mt. Baldy and Icehouse areas, with a listing of suggestions that hikers be ready for the opportunity of staying in a single day amid altering climate circumstances.

Sands, whose movie profession started within the Eighties, is called an enthusiastic mountaineer. “I like climbing mountains, I’ve spent quite a lot of time within the Alps through the years, quite a lot of time within the Andes, Alaska and the American ranges,” the Smallville alum informed Thrive in Could 2020. “It’s about supplication and sacrifice and humility, once you go to those mountains. It’s not a lot a celebration of oneself however the eradication of 1’s self-consciousness.”

The U.Ok. native is probably greatest identified for his position reverse Helena Bonham Carter in 1985’s A Room With a View. His different movie credit embrace Gothic, Warlock, Arachnophobia, Ocean’s 13 and The Lady With the Dragon Tattoo. On TV, he has appeared in 24, The Blacklist, Gotham, Dexter and extra.