Airplanes made a hit on a possible sighting of a missing Pierre man, but a closer look, turned up nothing. Civil Air Patrol pilots flying search missions Wednesday located a green four-door sedan similar from the sky to the Chrysler or Dodge Intrepid, 80-year-old Leroy Nye may be with. The car was located in a grassy area along a country road in Miner County. Miner County Sheriff’s officials found the car had 56-K license plates from Sanborn County, not the Hand County 33-M 2-0-2 plates on the car in question. Search flights were conducted yesterday from Brown to Charles Mix County along U-S Highway 281 and all of Beadle County for a second time. Searchers continued to fly into the early evening from U-S Highway 212 south to the Hand-Faulk County line and from Redfield east to South Dakota Highway 45 in the northeast part of Hand County. Ground searches were conducted Wednesday in Douglas, Spink, Faulk, Beadle, Hand, Hyde, Buffalo, Day, Brookings, Jerauld, and Hughes. The focus area were sloughs, waterways, culvert and bridges. Places where Nye could be if he lost control of his car. Nye suffers from dementia and has been without known food, water or medication since Sunday.
