{"id":779219,"date":"2026-07-04T06:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779219\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T06:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:15:21","slug":"car-abandoned-on-bc-ferries-sailing-leads-to-search-for-missing-person-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779219\/","title":{"rendered":"Car abandoned on BC Ferries sailing leads to search for missing person | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A routine BC Ferries sailing from the Sunshine Coast to the Lower Mainland has turned into a search for a missing person after their car was found abandoned onboard the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunshine Coast RCMP\u00a0has issued a public notice asking for assistance in locating 51-year-old Joyelle Goldbard.<\/p>\n<p>According to the RCMP, Goldbard\u2019s orange Subaru XV was left abandoned on the 2:35 p.m. ferry on Thursday, July 2, when it docked in Horseshoe Bay from Langdale.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"missing person\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"975\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2290324\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/missing-person-975x1024.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2290324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunshine Coast RCMP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one claimed the vehicle and no one matching Goldbard\u2019s description was seen in the area,\u201d wrote the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcmp.ca\/en\/bc\/sunshine-coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunshine Coast RCMP<\/a> in a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoldbard\u2019s wallet, personal belongings and cell phone were located inside the vehicle. Family and friends are very worried about Goldbard\u2019s well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/news\/category\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police<\/a> shared a photo of the missing person as well as an image of a four-door hatchback similar to the Roberts Creek resident\u2019s Subaru.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"missing person\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2290325\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/missing-person-1024x691.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2290325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunshine Coast RCMP<\/p>\n<p>RCMP also revealed that Golbard was previously known as Kristi Brandt until 2021, is 5\u20194\u2033, weighs 150 lb, and has brown eyes and short brown hair.<\/p>\n<p>Goldbard is known to wear glasses or contact lenses and has multiple tattoos, including a phoenix on the back of their neck and a full sleeve on their left arm.<\/p>\n<p>Commenters on the Sunshine Coast RCMP\u2019s social media post shared messages of hope for Goldbard\u2019s safe return.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"missing person\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"790\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2290326\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/missing-person-1-1024x790.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2290326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunshine Coast RCMP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope they are found safe! Very unsettling that their car was left abandoned on the ferry, makes you really wonder what could have happened?\u201d said one person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSending love to them, hoping they are found safe asap,\u201d added another person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh no, I haven\u2019t seen Joyelle for many years since they lived in Port Moody. An amazing person, and I hope they are found safe,\u201d added a third.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunshine Coast RCMP asks that anyone who has had contact with\u00a0Goldbard, or has any information that would assist in locating them, please call the police at 604-885-2266.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A routine BC Ferries sailing from the Sunshine Coast to the Lower Mainland has turned into a search&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-779219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}