Police step up search for missing Texas executive last seen leaving New Orleans bar

Police look for missing Texas exec in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS — Police are searching the French Quarter in New Orleans and checking with businesses for surveillance videotapes of a Texas energy executive who disappeared after walking out of a Bourbon Street bar.

About 30 detectives are looking for 54-year-old Douglas Schantz. He was last seen leaving the Razzoo Bar and Patio about 2 a.m. Friday.

Police say there has been no activity on his credit cards or cell phone.

Schantz is president of Houston-based Sequent Energy Management. He was in New Orleans to give Tulane University a $25,000 gift during a reception Thursday.

After the dinner, he was with colleagues on Bourbon Street for about two hours. Mark Homestead, a senior vice president at Sequent, says Schantz did not have too much to drink and left the bar before the rest of the group.