Missing Round Lake Park man found in eastern Wisconsin

An 82-year-old man whose family reported him missing Tuesday from his Round Lake Park home was found early Thursday in eastern Wisconsin.

James B. Hansen was spotted in an apparently disabled vehicle at about 12:45 a.m. Thursday by a passer-by on the side of a road in the Sheboygan, Wis., area, Round Lake Park Police Chief George Filenko said. He said the motorist alerted the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department.

Hansen was last seen by a neighbor departing his Saddlebrook Farms home about 8:30 a.m. Monday and was reported missing by his stepsons the next day.

Filenko said Sheboygan County sheriff’s deputies found Hansen to be disoriented. The Sheboygan County authorities notified Round Lake Park police about Hansen after running a license-plate check on his vehicle and learning he was the subject of a missing-person report.

With Hansen’s daughter in Las Vegas and the other children who live locally not immediately available, said Filenko, Round Lake Park detectives drove about 110 miles to Sheboygan County to pick him up. Filenko said investigators brought Hansen to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.

“They took responsibility for (Hansen) and they did a great job,” Filenko said of the detectives.

Police said they had been concerned Hansen could become stranded because of a broken fuel gauge on his 2003 Toyota Camry. Investigators initially searched for Hansen at Wal-Mart and Target stores in Lake County because he was known to frequent those businesses.

Sheboygan County Sheriff Todd Priebe couldn’t be reached for comment.