Posted on: Thursday, February 21, 2002

Colorado student still missing on Maui

Advertiser Staff

LAHAINA, Maui — A visiting college student remained missing yesterday after running out of a Lahaina concert Saturday night.

Friends of Torey Newlin, 23, said he was incoherent and acting strangely before he ran out of the concert by the String Cheese Incident, a Colorado-based band, at about 9 p.m., leaving behind his backpack, wallet and other belongings, said Maui Police Lt. Cal Shinyama.

Newlin, a student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and a group of friends had come to Maui Feb. 12 while on a school break and were due to leave last Tuesday.

Barefoot and wearing only a pair of shorts, he was last seen yelling in the middle of the road by the civic center tennis courts, Shinyama said. When his friends were unable to find Newlin, they reported him missing Monday.

A helicopter scanned the hills above the center Tuesday, and the ocean off the nearby shoreline also was searched. Yesterday, leaflets with a photo and description of Newlin were distributed and police searched for him at campsites and other locations.

Newlin is described as 6 feet tall, 170 pounds, with brown eyes and long, dark brown hair that he usually wears in a ponytail. He wears a shell necklace and has a pierced tongue.

Anyone with information is asked to call the nonemergency police number at (808) 244-6400 or (808) 244-6480.