Human remains found in the California desert where actor Julian Sands is being searched

Human remains were found Saturday in Southern California near the area where investigators were searching for the missing British actor. Julian Sands. “Civilian hikers contacted the Fontana Sheriff’s Station after discovering human remains in the desert on Baldy Mountain,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department reported in a press release obtained by CNN. Investigators say a positive identification of the remains should be completed within the next week.

Searching for Sands, who hasn’t been seen since he made it hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles in Januaryfocused on the Mount Baldy area after investigators traced his cellphone to that location.

Due to bad weather and difficult conditions, the active search was almost inactive until last Saturday, when it resumed. More than 80 volunteers, agents and search and rescue personnel were involved in the tracking effort, supported by two helicopters and a drone crew as volunteers searched “remote areas on Baldy Mountain,” according to officials.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said Monday that “despite the recent warmer weather, parts of the mountain remain inaccessible due to extreme alpine conditions,” and multiple search areas include steep terrain covered with “more than three meters of ice and snow».

Sands is known for his television roles as Vladimir Bierkoantagonist in the fifth season of the series 24as well as Superman’s father, Jor-El, d Smallville. On the big screen, he played the main character in two installments of the horror film franchise. Warlock and as part of the distribution Arachnophobia and leaving las vegas.

The 65-year-old actor gave his life Manuel Romasantain the movie: Romasanta, hunting the beast, directed by Paco Plaza in 2004 and starring Elsa Pataky and John Sharian. Based on the novel by Alfredo Conde, it tells the true story of Manuel Blanco Romasanta and was filmed in Galicia in 2003, turning towns such as A Fonsagrada, Sarria and O Incio, among others, into film sets.