MISSING ELDERLY MAN FOUND IN BURLESON CO. AFTER DRONE SEARCH

  

The Burleson County Sheriff’s Office reports a missing elderly man was found safe after a search Monday evening.

According to the sheriff’s office, dispatch received a call at roughly 8 p.m. regarding an elderly man who had been missing since earlier that day.

Deputies responded to the location near Baker Highway and began searching a wooded area.  However, they were initially unable to find him, and after searching for over an hour, they deployed a drone to assist them.

Soon after deploying the drone, deputies were able to successfully locate the man and get him to an ambulance. 

The sheriff’s office says the man was “very disoriented” and would not have made it out of the woods by himself.