CTUIR elder remains missing after three-day search

Wesley Dixon Jones, a 71-year-old citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, remains unaccounted for after a three-day search for him over Halloween weekend. Before Jones disappeared, camera footage captured him riding in the passenger seat of a gray Ford Escape on Oct. 5, at 3:15 p.m., near the town of Mission, Oregon. A woman was driving the vehicle.

Throughout the weekend, volunteers with MMIW Search & Hope Alliance organization out of Portland combed through rough terrain and water, using kayaks, ATVs dogs and the AquaEye Pro, a revolutionary AI-sonar device that scoured the deepest pockets of the Umatilla River.

“We did not locate Mr. Jones,” Kimberly Lining of the alliance told Buffalo’s Fire. “However, our team works through the process of elimination, so we know where he is not.”…

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