CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A $25,000 reward is being offered for relevant information into 21-year-old Caleb Harris' disappearance, but the information has to be provided by March 31.
A phone line has been set up and is being monitored for tips. That number is (361) 826-2950.
"We've been wanting to do it for a while, but we've been waiting for the right time," said Randy Harris, Caleb Harris' father. "Maybe somebody'll see something or give us some information for his safe return if somebody has him or if he's just out there, you know, hoping somebody'll see him and it'll help us out. Get him back."
Randy Harris said the end-of-the-month deadline was set to try and create a "sense of urgency" in anyone who might have key information about what happened to his son.
"You know, we're going into our third week and, you know, at this point, we haven't found him on the ground search and we're looking everywhere we possibly can and staying steadfast in our faith and knowing that he's out there," he said. "Somebody knows something. Somebody knows where he is and hope this'll encourage somebody to do the right thing, and let's get Caleb back home."
Friends and family got together and pooled money together to hopefully help find answers as to what happened to the second-year Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi student, Randy Harris said.
Corpus Christi Police Department Chief Michael Markle said in an interview with 3NEWS on Wednesday that the department is currently working with the Texas Rangers to make sure they're covering all bases in the search, and that the investigation has moved on to a more digital one.
"You may not look out your kitchen window and see all the grid searches and the physical – the canine searches that we’re doing – the helicopters and waterway searches, but . . . we have not slowed down one iota," he said.
While neither the CCPD nor Crime Stoppers had any involvement in putting up the reward money, the phone line does lead to CCPD officers.
Randy Harris said he has been in constant contact with officers working on the case and understands they're not able to loop him in on every aspect of the investigation, so this is how the family felt it could do its part.
"We all hope that we're making the right decisions," he said. "That's probably the hardest thing because we don't have a direction. We don't have leads, we don't have clues."
While they do what they can, Randy Harris said it could be helpful for anyone living with a camera doorbell or security camera in the area around Ennis Joslin Road, Holly Road, Rodd Field Road or Williams Drive, to check that footage for signs of Caleb Harris.
"Go back to the time frame -- March 4, between 2 and 3, 3 to 4 (a.m.), that two-hour time frame -- it takes 2 to 3 minutes to scan through," he said. "We're really begging for that right now because we know there's thousands of cameras out there."