MISSING: John Moebs' brother feels like he found a lead
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- John Moebs has been missing for nearly a week, but his friends and family aren't giving up the search yet. In fact, they're handing out flyers on Water Street Friday night, May 9th.
Family and friends are planning on a group of 20 to come to Water St. to help with the flyers, and they're hoping that some of the same people who were out last week will be out again.
After a week's worth of mostly fruitless searches, John Moebs's brother, Scott, is finally feeling like he's found a lead.
"I'm totally psyched. I started calling everybody to let them know you know it’s just any lead, this is the first lead that we’ve had in five, six days now," said Scott.
John went missing after a night of drinking. His last communication came around 3:30 a.m. last Saturday morning, May 3rd when he sent a text message to his girlfriend saying he was on his way home and that he thought his nose might be broken.
Scott spent the days since plastering missing poster's anywhere he thinks John might have gone. While he was on Water St. Friday morning, those posters finally produced a place to start.
"When I was looking at one of the flyers that we put up somebody came up to me and asked who he was I told him he was my brother and then he told me well he looks familiar," said Scott.
John's girlfriend was with him on Water St. the night he went missing, but the two eventually got split up. The man who approached Scott Friday morning remembered seeing them together at Brother's.
"He knew that they had both been there drinking, and that they had gotten kicked out at about 1:00 a.m. or 1:30 a.m. in the morning, but she remained at Brother’s until close," said Scott.
The man also remembered there having been a couple of fights that night, which might explain John's final text about a broken nose.
"The person that I talked with said that he was grabbing his face like he had been hit, he just wasn’t sure if the nose was broken or not," said Scott.
The question now is: Where did John go after he left Brother's? Scott says police told him he was on North Jefferson St. when he last used his phone. Scott's hoping repeat bar goers will remember seeing John last week, that's why he's spending Friday night, May 9th passing out posters on Water St.
"Anything that can help to narrow the search to let us know okay this may have been the series of events that happened so that we can try to trace his footsteps," said Scott.
The group plans to go out around 11:30 p.m. They plan to show bar goers both pictures of both John and his girlfriend, in hope that sight of one of them will trigger some memories about where John might have gone.