WEST JORDAN, Utah — Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who they say drove to Pocatello and failed to return home.
Paul Meiling, 77, left for Pocatello Monday morning and was expected in Salt Lake City by 3 p.m., according to his family.
“They’re saying that he left sometime between noon and 9 p.m. last night,” West Jordan Police Sgt. Joe Monson told KSL. “It is an active case but, other than the information that was given to us initially, we don’t have any.”
Meiling’s family received a text from him at noon on Dec. 19 notifying them that he would be returning from Idaho, and there was a transaction under his name at 12:12 p.m. from a Costco gas station in Pocatello the same day. His family also received a tip from a gas station cashier in Malad City who said they saw him and talked to him at 1:30 p.m. the same day.
His family has not been able to contact him otherwise and his phone is either dead or no longer has reception.
Meiling was driving a White Toyota Tundra with a white shell with license plate No. B028FJ when he went missing.
The family is covering the area from Malad City and southward to Salt Lake City and has an active Facebook page called Find Paul Meiling where they have posted updates on the search.
The West Jordan Police Department has asked those with information to call the department at 801-840-4000.
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