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ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) -- Las Vegas police have found the truck of a missing 74-year-old Cedar City man.
The truck belonging to Raymond Shurtz, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, was found late Thursday in the Valley of Fire area just south of Mesquite, Cedar City police Detective Tim Bonzo said.
Search and rescue teams from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and members of the Moapa tribal police conducted an air and land search for the man until darkness. They planned to resume the search early Friday.
Bonzo said witnesses believe they saw Shurtz in his truck in the Valley of Fire on Monday.
Shurtz has been missing since Saturday, when he reportedly said he was going to Escalante to see his children -- who actually live in Arizona.
"There are two things," Bonzo said. "It's better (being in the Valley of Fire area) than being lost in the Boulder Mountains because it's warmer and flat, and there's a good chance somebody may have picked him up and given him a ride."
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