FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Divers will continue searching a pond and woods in Fayetteville on Thursday for a missing Fort Bragg soldier.
Police have questioned a man who helps out at the bar where Kelli Bordeaux was last seen early Saturday morning.
Nicholas Holbert, 25, said he drove her home Saturday, but he said she asked him to drop her off about a ¼ mile from her apartment, police said.
Holbert told police he figured she just didn't want him to know where she lived.
Police are still trying to figure out what happened to Bordeaux after being dropped off.
Search crews will return to the pond they searched on Wednesday. Their search efforts were concentrated on that area after receiving a tip call.
At this point, police said, Holbert is only being called a person of interest, but he said he had nothing to do with her disappearance and that he hopes she is found.
"She seemed like a really nice and cool person. And, I mean, I hate that she is missing and I hope that she is found," Holbert said.
Holbert said he believes he was looked at as a person of interest because of his criminal record.
He is a registered sex offender who was convicted of taking indecent liberties with a 5-year-old when he was 16.
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