Search for ‘Alaskan Bush People’ alum Matt Brown called off after dangerous storm

The hunt for “Alaskan Bush People” prima Matt Brown has been called disconnected owed to terrible upwind amid reports that nan TV characteristic mightiness beryllium dead.

According to a Saturday property release from nan Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office, officials person suspended their hunt efforts successful Washington’s Okanogan River — wherever an unidentified man is said to person gone missing.

They explained that stream conditions, including h2o levels, were excessively vulnerable pursuing caller rainfall.

Authorities nary longer judge that nan individual would moreover beryllium recovered successful that circumstantial area of h2o owed to to nan precocious currents.

On Friday, unit from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, divers, and cadaver dogs scaled nan stream for immoderate signs of nan person. Despite their efforts, they were incapable to find anyone.

Now, nan sheriff’s agency is hoping to summation further knowledge that could constrictive down nan hunt area.

The update travel connected nan heels of Brown’s brother, Bear Brown, taking to societal media to show followers he fears his older related is dead.

In his Thursday TikTok video, Bear, 38, said he was told that Matt, 43, “took his ain life.”

While Bear couldn’t corroborate nan news, he said that nan erstwhile reality prima was spotted “floating down nan river.”

He alleged personification called nan cops which led to their hunt efforts.

“All nan witnesses are saying that it was Matt,” Bear insisted. “Someone decidedly did, and a batch of group are reasoning that it’s him. … It looks for illustration it is. … It’s looking very apt that it is nan case.”

The distraught family personnel revealed that nan eldest of nan bunch “has been struggling for a agelong clip pinch intoxicant and pinch drugs.”

He claimed Matt was estranged from nan family by his ain doing.

Bear and Matt past ran into 1 different astatine Walmart “a spot ago.”

“That was nan past clip I saw him,” Bear recounted. “And he called maine aft that, and he said that he had fallen disconnected nan wagon. And I was like, ‘Well, get backmost connected it, man. Everybody falls off. Just get backmost connected it. Go to rehab if you’ve sewage to. You sewage this. You’ve fought it a batch before.’”

He added that he had heard his relative was going done a “really bad breakup” and perchance drinking excessively much.

That day, insiders told TMZ that their different brother, Gabe, was seen talking pinch officers during their hunt efforts.

Gabe is 1 of nan fewer family members not estranged from Matt.

Prior to Bear’s video, nan sheriff’s office issued a property release that stated personification called 911 connected Wednesday claiming they said to a man who was seated successful nan shallow portion of nan Okanogan River.

“The caller turned distant from nan man sitting successful nan river, heard a sound, turned backmost toward nan man successful nan h2o and saw nan man was facedown successful nan h2o drifting distant successful nan current,” nan property merchandise read.

The connection noted that a weapon was later recovered from nan area wherever this unidentified individual was past seen.

Last week, Matt appeared seemingly drunk and/or precocious arsenic he rambled nude successful an alarming livestream uploaded to YouTube.

The Discovery Channel alum was besides carrying what appeared to beryllium a weapon successful nan video.

If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, interaction the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling aliases texting 988.