SUGAR LAND, Texas – High-tech help from the sky saved a missing man with dementia in Sugar Land. Police used thermal imaging technology on drones to quickly locate and reunite the man with his family.
The search began after a neighbor called 911 to report a suspicious man. Captain Jesse Huang of the Sugar Land Police said officers soon realized the man was the missing elderly person with dementia.
Officers immediately launched a drone equipped with thermal imaging, which detected the man’s body heat in a backyard near a pool. While everything else appeared gray, the man’s heat signature showed up clearly in black…