U.S. drug enforcement police consult with RCMP on slayings of sailors
VANCOUVER — Officials with a United States law enforcement agency say interagency co-operation is not unusual as they assist the RCMP in investigating the homicides of two British Columbia men on Vancouver Island.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration public information officer Jodie Underwood confirms the organization’s Vancouver office has been asked for assistance in the case involving Ryan Daley and Daniel Archbald.
The bodies of the two men were found near Ucluelet last month, several weeks after they vanished following a sailing trip to Ucluelet from Panama in Archbald’s sailboat.
The men were last seen at the Ucluelet marina on May 16, carrying backpacks and duffel bags off their boat, with the apparent intention of hitchhiking south.