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K9 unit helps find missing senior in Canton after 9-hour search

Posted 11/11/15

CANTON – A Canton man with dementia was found in an overgrown field after having been missing for about nine hours overnight, according to St. Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies. Deputies said …

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K9 unit helps find missing senior in Canton after 9-hour search

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CANTON – A Canton man with dementia was found in an overgrown field after having been missing for about nine hours overnight, according to St. Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies.

Deputies said that around 6 p.m. Tuesday they responded to the Cowan Road to investigate the report of a missing person.

William E. Meenan, 74, left a residence he was visiting on the Cowan Road and was unable to be located.

About nine hours later a U.S. Border Patrol K9 unit found Meenan in a field about 200 yards from the residence on Cowan Road.

He was transported by Canton Rescue to Canton-Potsdam Hospital and treated for exposure.

Deputies were assisted by Border Patrol, Canton Police Department, forest rangers and St. Lawrence County Emergency Services.