PANAMA CITY — Authorities in Miami-Dade County are searching for a “missing endangered adult” with ties to Bay County who has been missing for two weeks.
Nicol Spann, 33, was last seen leaving his residence at the Spring Lake Condos on Jan. 6. He is 6 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 250 pounds and has blue eyes and dark blonde, curly, medium-length hair. He also has a “scraggily beard,” according to family members, and was last seen driving a 2014 red Jeep Compass with a dent on the driver’s side door.
Nicol Spann is the son of Bay County businessman Bill Spann. The elder Spann also was a longtime chairman of the Bay Point Invitational Billfish Tournament. Bill Spann said his son had just returned to Miami to continue his teaching career at Florida International University.
“It’s very unusual,” Bill Spann said. “He left his dog, which is his best friend, and didn’t take anything with him. We have no way of knowing why or where he is, but his mother and I are doing all we can to find our son.”
The Bay County Sheriff’s Office has been asked to aid in the search in any way possible, public information officer Ruth Corley said Tuesday.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Nicol Spann are asked to call BCSO at 850-747-4700 or the Miami-Dade Special Victims Bureau Missing Persons Squad at 305-418-7200.