FORKS, Wash. – It’s been a month since the first reports of the harassment of a Spokane family confronted in Forks and later followed to their camping spot.

While no charges have yet been filed, there is still an ongoing investigation to determine whether any of the actions rose to the level of criminal harassment, though it’s been stymied by several of those involved who refuse to answer questions.

Chief Criminal Investigator Brian King says they are in the process of applying for and serving search warrants on the social media accounts of several suspects and witnesses.

“Yeah, you know we have exhausted the individuals that we can talk to. I mean, we’ve reached out to everybody that we believe was materially involved in this event. Some folks have been real cooperative and others, not so. Some individuals even refusing to talk to us. But we’ve exhausted the list of persons we wanted to interview. And so that’s why we’ve shifted to this phase of our investigation.”

Specifically, they’re looking for evidence that could lead to identifying who is responsible for the felling of several trees across a road, meant to keep the family from driving away. Because that action occurred on federal land, it could lead to federal charges.

King says they began serving “preservation letters” to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to preserve specific accounts that they believe could contain relevant evidence. It’s intended to capture deleted posts before they’re gone forever. Getting the information requires a court order, but he says working with these companies is a pretty common practice these days.

“Yes, you know, they always cooperate with us as far as getting back to us. It’s oftentimes, though, it on their time. And  so, typically, a quick response is usually about three weeks, but we’re prepared to wait as long as six weeks before we continue to inquire.”

As for the family themselves, we asked King how they were doing and what their expectations might be.

“Our contact is…it’s been difficult for us to stay into contact with the family. I mean, they’re very pleasant folks to deal with. Its where they’re currently living at and the lack of cell phone service. And they would certainly like to have some answers, you know, as to what happened that day and who did what, but they realize that those are high expectations based on where we’re at in our investigation and, you know, the roadblocks that we’ve run up against.”