On Wednesday, Aug. 20, troopers from the Michigan State Police (MSP) responded to a residence in Ionia County regarding a missing 80-year-old man with dementia. 

The call came in around 7 p.m., and the man had last been seen two hours earlier near his residence on the 900 block of West Long Lake Road in Orleans. After a nearly four-hour search, an MSP helicopter located the man just after 10:50 p.m. in a wooded area south of Long Lake Road. Ground units made contact with the man and provided medical care.

A video has been released by MSP Sixth District regarding the location of the man. Watch it here: https://x.com/mspwestmi/status/1958547868542804118.

_{Release info courtesy of Michigan State Police - Sixth District.}