Police have decided to scale back the ground search for a missing Vermont man who was last seen after he left a Granville bar Saturday morning.
Police have located Jonathan Schaff's cell phone, but have found no other clues to his whereabouts.
Police, firefighters and volunteer search teams have combed roads and fields in a five-mile radius of Granville and western Vermont with no success in locating the 23-year-old Fair Haven, Vt., resident.
Vermont State Police had hoped to bring in divers on Wednesday to search the Mettawee River adjacent to the parking lot where Schaff was headed and where his phone was located.
Granville Police Chief Ernie Bassett said there is a deep pool in the river near the parking lot that police hope to have divers check.
But the cold weather had resulted in the diving effort being postponed as of Wednesday. Vermont State Police Capt. Donald Patch said the potential use of divers was under discussion Wednesday.
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Schaff hasn't been seen since he left Riverside Pub in Granville and walked east with two people who were going to give him a ride. Their car was parked in the parking lot of Loomis Trucking in West Pawlet, Vt.
Schaff's phone was found Tuesday in an abandoned vehicle in the trucking company's parking lot.