UPDATE! The Missing Dashand Stokelin

The Missing
Dashand Stokelin
Case #: 1611-0805
Atlantic County

UPDATE! The vehicle Dashand was driving has been located as of October 2, 2024. A boat operator discovered the vehicle via sonar equipment in the Clam Thoroughfare in Atlantic City and notified authorities. The car was removed from the water by the Brigantine Fire Department Dive Team. Detectives conducted a search of the vehicle but did not recover any human remains.

https://6abc.com/post/cold-case-vehicle-driven-man-has-been-missing-8-years-recovered-clam-thorofare-atlantic-city-new-jersey/15392950/

Dashand (Das) Lahki Stokelin was 36 years old when he was last seen near the 200 block of N. North Carolina Avenue, in Atlantic City, New Jersey on November 23, 2016 at 1:45 a.m. He was driving his grandmother’s blue 2016 Subaru Legacy with the NJ License plate number C79-GVK. He has not been heard from and the vehicle has not been recovered. He is a black male standing at 5’05-5’06” and weighing 190-200 lbs. with black hair and brown eyes. His date of birth is listed as 04/13/1980. He was last seen wearing a yellow hooded sweatshirt with black Levi jeans, black, blue and yellow Huarache Nike Air sneakers and a Cleveland Cavaliers hat. 
Dashand had last spoken to his grandmother late in the evening of November 22. She said he was incoherent on the phone and he “couldn’t form the sentences to tell me where he was.”
Prior to his disappearance, he had not had any known health issues or substance abuse problems. He normally frequented the cities of Camden, Jersey City and Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Dashand has a black birthmark on his right hip, a hernia operation scar, and a scar on his navel. He has a tattoo of the name “Marlene” on his right arm, and a tattoo of the outline of a skull on his left arm. He had a full beard and mustache at the time. 
Dashand left behind five children. The circumstances of his disappearance remain unclear. 

If you have any further information, please contact the Atlantic City Police Department at 609-347-5780.

Sources:

https://www-lps.state.nj.us/NJSP_Amber/MissingPersonDetail.jsp?mp_id=90065&type=mp

Dashand Lahki Stokelin

https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/38238

https://atlanticcityweekly.com/missing-in-new-jersey-event-draws-families-seeking-news-hope/article_2d011f98-e165-592d-a7f9-4fab0e43588a.html

https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/family-still-searching-for-missing-atlantic-city-man-a-month-later/article_3a4f4f22-6a34-50c0-9bba-b75b0d29804d.html https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/new_jersey/Missing-Persons-New-Jersey-DNA-Database-FBI-Tomiene-Jones-Disappear.html