ROSEVILLE, Mich. — Authorities searched a Michigan landfill Monday for any evidence of a Detroit-area woman who has been missing for more than a week.

Aerial photos and video posted online by news media showed people in yellow suits at the landfill in Macomb County’s Lenox Township. Roseville police Chief Mitch Berlin acknowledged the search during remarks to reporters.

“Trying to bring closure to the family,” Berlin said. “We had 40, 50 officers out here.”

Ashley Elkins, 30, was reported missing on Jan. 3. A former boyfriend has been charged with lying to police during the investigation.

Elkins lived in Warren, but her car was found in Roseville, another Detroit-area community. Berlin said the search will resume Tuesday.

The Pine Tree landfill is a vast landfill that accepts tons of trash from across southeastern Michigan. Detroit police in 2022 spent a summer there searching for the remains of a 17-year-old girl whose body was placed in a dumpster.

Police stopped the effort without finding Zion Foster’s remains, though a man was convicted of second-degree murder and is serving decades in prison.

The story has been edited to correct the last name to Elkins, not Watkins.