Search underway along I-35 near Ellsworth for missing man

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office is asking people to keep their distance from law enforcement and search and rescue personnel near the Ellsworth exit on I-35 Friday.

HCSO posted shortly after 10:00 a.m. that there isn’t an active situation, but a search is underway between mile markers 133 and 128 for a missing man who may have last been seen in the area. The missing person, 31-year-old Marcus Anthony Taylor was believed to have been traveling from Fort Worth, Texas to Wisconsin to visit his dying grandmother earlier this month.

His license plates were last read on Tuesday, April 8th, while traveling on I-35 in northern Missouri. There hasn’t been a record of the plates being scanned since.

Taylor was driving a blue Hyundai Santa Fe with South Dakota license plates…

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