Clue turns up in search for Fox exec

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Police in Los Angeles said they have located a vehicle they'd been looking for in the 2012 disappearance of 20th Century Fox distribution manager Gavin Smith.

Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detectives impounded a Hummer Wednesday from outside a house where federal drug agents were investigating a marijuana growing operation, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The newspaper said the vehicle is registered to John Creech, who is serving a jail sentence in Los Angeles on one count of selling and transporting drugs.

Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said police had searched Creech's home in 2012 as part of the investigation into Smith's disappearance in May 2012, and had been looking for the Hummer since that time. Investigators impounded boxes, a computer and an Audi sport utility vehicle after that search.

Citing a source it did not name, the newspaper said Smith, 58, had met Creech's wife, Chandrika, in therapy.

Smith, who played basketball for UCLA and the University of Hawaii, has not been seen since May 1, 2012, when he left a friend's home in Oak Park, west of Los Angeles, leaving behind personal items including shaving equipment and his cellphone charger.