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The search for Tim Bosma has extended to a rural farm property owned by the Millard family as police narrowed in on Waterloo Monday.

Hamilton police are expected to make a statement this morning regarding their ongoing investigation.

Several vehicles including Hamilton police cruisers and a forensics van were seen at the field at 2548 Roseville Rd. in North Dumfries Township, where a laneway leading to a large wooden barn was cordoned off with yellow police tape.

Tim Bosma’s family is not interested in the plot twists of his mysterious disappearance; they just want him back.

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“This is not a TV show. It's a real person who is missing. This is life or death … but we don't use that word here,” said Peter Lowe, a family friend and designated spokesperson for the family.

As police searched two Waterloo-area properties on Monday, Lowe spoke to The Spectator in a playroom littered with toys belonging to the missing man’s two-year-old daughter at their Ancaster home.

Friends and family huddled in the garage of the big country house, eating hotdogs during a brief break from a tireless week of handing out missing-person posters.

Sharlene Bosma was on a walk during the visit, taking a moment to clear her head of the uncertainty swirling around her husband's disappearance.

“If we find Tim with no arrests, then great … if we get two arrests but no Tim? Well, then we don't care,” Lowe said.

Emotions are tense at the house, he said.

“Evenings are toughest because, well, that's another day gone by where we didn't find Tim.”

Bosma, 32, went missing May 6, after two men interested in test-driving a pickup truck he'd advertised for sale online showed up at his house. He told his wife he'd be right back, and the three headed out just before 9:30 p.m.

She has not seen him since.

On Monday, police focused their search for Bosma in Waterloo Region, where they were executing search warrants.

At the farm property, a large army-style field tent was visible near a tree line, along with portable toilets, and what appeared to be a large command vehicle.

Vehicles were also seen driving along the tree line and over a hill, farther into the field.

A man coming to check on a plane at a private airstrip across the road said he was told police had been at the farm property over the weekend, possibly as early as Friday.

On Saturday, police announced the arrest of Dellen Millard, 27. He is in jail at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre, charged with forcibly confining Bosma and stealing his black pickup truck.

A second suspect has not been identified, said Hamilton homicide unit's Detective Sergeant Matt Kavanagh.

The Millardair hangar, on the grounds of the Waterloo International Airport, remains the base of investigation, Kavanagh noted.

Carl Millard — Dellen’s grandfather — founded the Millardair airline in 1963, out of Pearson Airport. Dellen Millard is the CEO of the company, which services aircraft at the Waterloo hangar.

On Monday, police were getting search warrants to search a large covered trailer seized Sunday afternoon from a home in Kleinburg, Ont., just north of Toronto. The home is owned by Millard's mother, Madeleine Burns.

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Police confirmed Monday the trailer is owned by Millard's business.

York Regional Police officers saw a black pickup truck inside the trailer. Until the search warrants are obtained, police can't confirm whether it's Bosma's truck.

Those warrants were expected to be obtained by Monday night, said Kavanagh, with the search itself to be conducted Tuesday morning.

The Centre of Forensic Sciences has offered to assist with that part of the investigation, Kavanagh said.

Millard's lawyer, Deepak Paradkar, said his client is not talking to police.

“He’s facing pretty serious charges, and he's executing his right to remain silent,” he said.

Paradkar described Millard — whom the criminal lawyer said he knows through mutual friends — as “humble, unassuming … hard-working and extremely intelligent.”

Millard is under a court order to have no contact with two witnesses involved in the Bosma case. The identities of both men are covered by a publication ban.

Millard is scheduled for a bail hearing Wednesday morning with deputy Crown attorney Tony Leitch, who is assigned to the case. Millard will appear in person at the John Sopinka Courthouse.

Paradkar, who said he has experience with high-profile murder and organized crime cases, said he will be requesting bail for his client Wednesday.

Another property that police searched over the weekend — a ranch-style house on Maple Gate Court in Etobicoke, co-owned by Millard and his now-deceased father, a former pilot — was quiet Monday.

Aside from a few house lights flicked on, there were no signs of activity at Millard's childhood home. A Bobcat sat in weeds in the back yard.

With files from Susan Clairmont and Justin Robertson, The Hamilton Spectator

“There was always lots of activity at the house,” said a neighbour, who didn't want to be identified. She said pickup trucks and old cars were always in the driveway.

The Millards kept to themselves, neighbours said.

Carmen Bernadi, who has lived in the court for 23 years, said she never met or saw Dellen.

“I wouldn't know him if I bumped into him on the street. I really wouldn't. I have no idea what he even looks like,” she said. “The family did their own thing.”

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