{"id":4037,"date":"2026-05-30T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-browns-brother-gabe-seen-talking-to-police-amid-search\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:01:58","slug":"alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-browns-brother-gabe-seen-talking-to-police-amid-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-browns-brother-gabe-seen-talking-to-police-amid-search\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Alaskan Bush People&#8217; alum Matt Brown&#8217;s brother Gabe seen talking to police amid search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F05%2F129125332.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d alum Matt Brown\u2019s brother Gabe was seen talking to police on Thursday as the search for the reality TV star continues.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said Gabe \u2014 who is one of the few family members not estranged from Matt \u2014 was speaking with authorities at the Washington river location where an unidentified man is said to have gone missing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/29\/matt-browns-brother-seen-with-police-amid-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports TMZ<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The insiders told the outlet that Gabe chatted with officers as part of their ongoing search. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d alum Matt Brown\u2019s brother Gabe (seen above posing on the right of Matt) was seen talking to police as the investigation into his disappearance continues.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/gabrielstarbuckbrown11<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sources told TMZ that Gabe (pictured above in a selfie) spoke with officers as part of its ongoing investigation on Thursday.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/gabrielstarbuckbrown11<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bear informed his followers on Thursday that he had been told his eldest brother, Matt, \u201ctook his own life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the 38-year-old reality star couldn\u2019t \u201cconfirm that that\u2019s true,\u201d he said Matt, 43, \u201cwas seen in a river, at a river or close to a river\u201d and later \u201cfloating down the river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A report was then called in to the OCSO in Washington \u2014 where Matt lives \u2014 and a search was started to locate the body.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Gabe, pictured above in a shirtless selfie, is one of the few family members who maintained a relationship with the estranged reality star.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/gabrielstarbuckbrown11<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Fans were first alerted to Matt\u2019s disappearance after his younger brother, Bear, told his followers he had heard that Matt (pictured above) had \u201ctook his own life.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/abpmattbrown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAll the witnesses are saying that it was Matt,\u201d Bear continued. \u201cSomeone definitely did, and a lot of people are thinking that it\u2019s him. \u2026 It looks like it is. \u2026 It\u2019s looking very likely that it is the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the OCSO\u2019s press release, the authorities shared that someone called 911 on Wednesday to say they had just spoken to a man sitting in the shallow water of the Okanogan River, which is south of Oroville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe caller turned away from the man sitting in the river, heard a sound, turned back toward the man in the water and saw the man was facedown in the water drifting away in the current,\u201d the press release read, noting that a gun was later recovered from the area.<\/p>\n<p>Matt was last seen a week ago, giving an alarming nude <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RoadWandererForever\">livestream on YouTube<\/a>, where he rambled while seemingly drunk and\/or high and carried what appeared to be a gun.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In his Thursday video (pictured here), Bear claimed Matt \u201cwas seen in a river, at a river or close to a river\u201d and later \u201cfloating down the river.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/bearthekingofextreme<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Bear later returned to social media on Friday to update fans that a body has not yet been found.  <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/bearthekingofextreme<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his most recent update, Bear shared via TikTok on Thursday that a body has not yet been located.<\/p>\n<p>While posts have been made with Matt\u2019s image and shared to a Facebook page with his name, Bear claims the posts are fake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt only has a YouTube channel. He\u2019s not on Facebook. He\u2019s not on TikTok. He\u2019s not on any of those. Those are scammers that are posing as him for y\u2019all guys to send him money,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, contact the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\">Suicide and Crisis Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0by calling or texting 988.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/29\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-browns-brother-gabe-seen-talking-to-police-amid-search\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d alum Matt Brown\u2019s brother Gabe was seen talking to police on Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/129125332.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}