There is only one person that I know of in this case who didnt want to work directly with LE, worked through a family friend, got involved with this case, and made past videos of storage containers for their business.
And in this police report, if I am reading it right,
low and behold, we have someone that didnt want to be involved with LE contact, somehow got ahold of a family friend, and had information about a male holding a female in a storage container/shed.
LE should have been all over this and maybe they were.
Its one thing not to want to work with LE. But its quite another when someone has information about someone holding a person and that person is a kidnapped missing person who's life could be in jeapordy.
Maybe LE did pursue this and found out the person was lying or they were telling the truth and lied to the public about how they got involved.
All I know is if this is the same person that got involved with this case then there was some fibs told to the public about how and why they got involved.
http://www.co.shasta.ca.us/docs/Sheriff/daily-logs/11-12-2016.pdf?sfvrsn=2