Missing Person With Dementia Located
Several first responders and volunteers teamed up to locate a man with dementia who left his home on Road 22-K in Putnam County on Monday night.
A family member contacted a sergeant on patrol and said they could not find their 73-year-old family member and that they had not been seen for an extended period of time.
Various agencies began searching for the missing man, along with drone units and a K-9 unit.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office says the man was located at 9:13 Monday night near the Auglaize River stuck in the mud, awake and alert.
The man was pulled from the mud and carried to EMS to be evaluated and suffered only a minor injury.