MARQUETTE, MI— The Marquette County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a downstate woman who may have traveled to the area with thoughts of self-harm.
On Sunday, sheriff’s deputies received information from the Wixom Police Department that 31-year-old Olivia Ernst was missing. Officers said she was threatening self-harm and might have gone to the Marquette area.
Deputies found the car Ernst was driving on Buckroe Road, off of County Road 550. They also found some of her personal belongings along the Lake Superior shoreline.
The U.S. Coast Guard and Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Division were brought in to search the water in that area. A Coast Guard helicopter joined the search but found nothing.
Anyone with information about Ernst or her location is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at 906-225-8435 or to call Central Dispatch at 906-475-9912.
Her disappearance remains under investigation.