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13May/100

Gerald “Pete” Brooks Found

Searchers have found an elderly Union man who went missing overnight after leaving his home in the morning to take a walk.

The Maine Warden Service says Gerald "Pete" Brooks, 75, (above), was found this morning. His condition is still being assessed, authorities say.

Officials say Brooks suffers from Alzheimer's disease. He was found after an extensive search involving volunteers and several local fire departments. The Maine Warden Service searched for Brooks by air, using its new thermal-imaging camera system.

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12May/100

Gerald “Pete” Brooks Missing

UNION, Maine (AP) -- The Maine Warden Service is leading the search in Union for an elderly man with Alzheimer's disease who has been missing almost a day.

Seventy-five-year-old Gerald "Pete" Brooks of Union left home to go for a walk at about 11 a.m. Tuesday. He has not been seen since.

The search is under way near the Union-Hope town line.

Wardens are using an infrared camera system, dogs, professional search teams and volunteers to search for Brooks.

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3Apr/100

Stanley Casey Found

WESTBROOK – A missing 80-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease who wandered from his home on Haskell Street on Friday afternoon was found Saturday afternoon.

Police said they found Stanley Casey not far from his home around 3 p.m., about 23 hours after he had been last seen.

Casey was in fairly good condition, but was being taken to Maine Medical Center to be examined, a police spokesman said.

Casey was found by police and firefighters who had been searching for him, police said.

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WESTBROOK – Police are looking for an 80-year-old man with Alzheimer's who wandered from his home on Haskell Street Friday afternoon.

Police said Stanley Casey was last seen shortly after 4 p.m.Friday. They said he is white, about 5-feet 3-inches tall, weighs about 155 pounds and has gray hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a green fleece coat, gray pants and black sneakers with velcro.

Anyone with information on Casey is asked to call Westbrook police at 854-2531.

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18Jan/100

John “Butch” Caswell, 69, drowned in Belfast Bay

BELFAST, Maine — Despite lifesaving efforts Sunday afternoon by a sizable group of people, a Belfast man drowned in Belfast Bay.

John “Butch” Caswell, 69, suffered from dementia, according to a police report, and apparently had wandered away from his Union Street home sometime after 4 a.m. Sunday.

His wife alerted the police at 6:56 a.m. that Caswell was missing, and local law enforcement agencies launched a search that included dogs, a Fire Department boat and Maine State Police.

Members of Caswell’s congregation at the Calvary Chapel went looking for him after their service, and a 17-year-old boy spotted him about 12:45 p.m. floating in waist-deep water near Heritage Park, according to Belfast police Officer Michael Rolerson.

“The kid found him. He hollered and jumped into the water and started pulling him towards shore,” Rolerson said.

Other congregation members aided them, and some began CPR, which continued until rescue crews arrived.

“The church asked us all to help find him,” said Adrian Arbo, who was at the park.

The scene there was grim, with a tight cluster of more than a dozen emergency workers and other people performing CPR and sliding the man’s body onto an orange emergency stretcher.

A woman wept while being comforted by two other people, and a teenager standing nearby with damp clothes looked shaken.

Caswell was taken to Waldo County General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Rolerson said.

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13Jan/100

Sarah Rogers, 29 Disappeared on Maine I-95

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10Jan/100

New Special Needs Database In Maine

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Police in southern Maine are hoping technology will help them find children with autism much faster.

They're adding people with special needs to their database that already includes personal information about patients with alzheimer's.

Scarborough police officer, Doug Weed's, daughter has autism. He says many kids on the spectrum are attracted to water, or even certain colors. They also have different word triggers that can spark a connection with an officer trying to help.

This is all information police in Scarborough and South Portland say would be helpful to have at their fingertips when responding to a missing person case.

If you live in South Portland or in Scarborough and would like to add your child to the database, click on one of the links to the right.

If your child goes missing, a map immediately comes up of the area around your house or the child's school. It also shows all of the child's information along with a photograph.

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