A 67-year-old man reported missing on July 4th in Pennsylvania turned up in a hayfield the next day 125 miles away in Tuscarawas County naked, agitated and in need of help.
Reports from the Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office say the man had mental health issues and had not been taking his medication. He had not been seen for three days since a Pennsylvania hospital discharged him on July 2nd. His wife told local deputies he said he was going to Wheeling, West Virginia.
A caller on Saturday afternoon reported seeing a naked man in a hayfield on the property on Rice Road in Jefferson Township near New Philadelphia. Tuscarawas County Sheriff Orvis Campbell says It took a while for responding deputies to identify the man because he wasn’t making sense and made several threats to kill a deputy.
EMS took the man to Union Hospital. Another deputy eventually found the man’s vehicle. A check of the license plate identified the owner as a missing person. Campbell says the hospital would conduct a mental health evaluation.
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