Vermont State Police continue to search for a former Sparta, New Jersey, mayor and police captain Tuesday, five days after family members reported him missing.

Brian Brady, a 57-year-old Ringwood, New Jersey, resident and former police captain with the New Jersey Department of Human Services, was reported missing May 30 by family members concerned about his well-being, according to the Vermont State Police.

Scuba divers scoured Lake Champlain on Friday and Saturday to no avail after Brady’s rental car was found near the Champlain Bridge between Addison, Vermont, and Crown Point, New York, police said. The water searches have been suspended, but police said the investigation into Brady's disappearance is continuing.

"Our investigation remains ongoing, but we do not have any further water searches planned unless and until we develop new evidence," said Adam Silverman, a Vermont State Police spokesman.

Brady was a Sparta councilman from 2006 to 2010 and mayor of the Sussex County town from 2008 to 2009. He also served as a high-ranking police officer for the state until May 2011, when he became the subject of a criminal misconduct complaint that caused him to lose his job and his pension.

Roughly four years later, in March 2015, Brady was sentenced to a year of probation after he was convicted of abusing his position by asking a dispatcher to perform unauthorized background checks, court records show. State officials then successfully appealed the sentence, saying it violated the minimum mandatory sentence required, records show.

Brady’s pending re-sentencing had been scheduled for May 31, Mercer County Superior Court records show. On May 30, the hearing was rescheduled for June 21.

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Police said Brady rented a car on May 22 and drove to Vermont, where he owns a condominium. Police went to the Smugglers' Notch Resort condo after Brady's family members reported him missing on the afternoon of May 30 but found it unoccupied. On May 31, police found the rental car at a park-and-ride lot near Lake Champlain in Addison, Vermont.

The Vermont State Police Scuba Team and other units subsequently searched the lake though 5 p.m. on Saturday, when officials suspended the water search. Police said the investigation would nonetheless continue for the 6-foot-1-inch and roughly 200-pound man.

Vermont State Police have asked anyone with information on Brady's whereabouts to call its Williston barracks at 802-878-7111.