Missing Amherst Twp. 90-year-old found safe in Michigan

A 90-year-old man reported missing from Amherst Township was found safe on Friday night, more than 200 miles from home. On Thursday, the Lorain County Sheriff's Office issued a release asking for the public's help in locating Robert Igoe, 90, of Amherst Township. Igoe had left home on Thursday morning to go to a store in Lorain, but his car had been last seen Friday morning in the Toledo area, headed west toward Indiana. The Sheriff's Office provided a release on Saturday announcing that Igoe had been found by a member of the Nottawaseppi Huron band of the Potawatomi Tribal Police in Michigan. Tribal police Sgt. Ryan Pedley noticed an apparently disabled car outside tribal land near Athens, Michigan. It was roughly 200 miles and three hours away from Amherst Township, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Pedley notified tribal officer Joseph Sisco to investigate the disabled vehicle, and Sisco found Igoe with the car. The release said Sisco could not identify Igoe as a missing person due to a local communication outage, but that he realized that Igoe "did not appear to be coherent." Sisco was able to get a family phone number from Igoe and make contact with his family, learning from them that the 90-year-old had been reported missing. Sisco called an ambulance to check on Igoe, and family members arrived a few hours later to take him home. "Mr. Igoe was returned to his residence by his sons and is currently reported to be in good health," Tribal police Sgt. Bryan Barnes said in the report. Barnes said that Igoe's son, Robert Igoe Jr., expressed his gratitude to all of the first responders and dispatchers who participated in the search for his father. "Mr. Igoe Jr. wished for me to express his family's gratitude for the diligence displayed by all in the efforts to locate his father," Barnes said. While police across several states worked with advanced technology in search of Igoe, Barnes said that it was the tribal police and "good ol'-fashioned police work" that ultimately returned Igoe home safely. "The Lorain County Sheriff's Office would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to Officer Sisco and Sgt. Pedley for their service to the public," the release said. "This time it was one of our residents in need of their service, and they did not disappoint."