Missing Detroit Chef, Marine Reward Grows To $6,000

DETROIT, MI — Crime Stoppers is offering a $6,000 cash reward is being offered for tips on the whereabouts of a well-known Detroit chef and Marine veteran who has been missing for more than a month. Douglas “Chef Doug” Calhoun, 39, was last seen by his friends around 3:30 a.m. June 1 after a night out, police said.

Calhoun called his friends and let them know he had made it safely to his home on the 3300 block of W. Outer Drive, then failed to show up at two jobs on Friday, June, 2, investigators said. He also missed both an important catering event and a flight to St. Louis that weekend, which family members said wasn’t like Calhoun, who they said put his reputation above all else.

Calhoun’s family learned through OnStar that GMC Acadia on Blackstone Street in the Brightmoor neighborhood, according to reports. It was recovered from an abandoned home on Trinity Street.

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Dayna Phillips, Calhoun’s sister, told WJBK-TV in early June that her family has launched their own investigation into Calhoun’s disappearance after getting “some information about fraudulent activity on his credit cards which occurred on June 2 — all throughout the day on June 2.”

Detroit police didn’t find anything out of the ordinary when they searched Calhoun’s home.

“It’s a person, it’s a human being,” Phillips said of her brother in the early days of the investigation. “Whatever is happening he deserves to come home to his family. I just want him home.”

With more than a month passed since Calhoun disappeared, his family is having a tough time, brother-in-law Eric Phillips told WDIV-TV. They think Calhoun could have handled himself if he’d run into trouble, but they don’t have any concrete answers about what happened after he parted ways with his buddies early the morning of June 1.

“What I’m feeling, I can’t describe it,” Eric Phillips told WDIV.

Calhoun is 6 feet, 1 inch tall, weighs 230 pounds, and has a medium complexion, black hair in a brush-wave style, and long, thick beard with a short-cut mustache, police said. He is reportedly in good physical and mental health.

Tips can be left with the Detroit Police Department at (313) 596-1240 or (313) 596-1616, or Crime Stoppers at (800) SPEAK-UP.

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