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The man reported missing in Sooke last week is a prospect for the Nanaimo chapter of the Hells Angels biker gang, sources told Postmedia News on Monday.

Michael Gregory Widner, 39, was last seen March 8 in Sooke and was reported missing the following day.

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His wife posted a message on Facebook over the weekend saying police had since told her that Widner’s body had been found.

Neither Sooke RCMP nor E Division headquarters responded to requests for information Monday about the status of the case and whether it was now a murder investigation.

Hells Angels spokesman Rick Ciarniello told Postmedia News that Widner was a prospect and that his body had been found Sunday.

Earlier, Sooke Staff Sergeant Jeff McArthur said in a news release that Widner’s vehicle, a 2003 black Volkswagen Golf, was found abandoned at Poirier Lake, in William Edmonds Park in Sooke.

Widner has no criminal record in B.C., according to the online court database.