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Police search for missing man near Prairie Bluff areaWest Des Moines IA

audio iconMissing Person
West Des Moines, IA

Police are searching for a missing man who left the expected waiting area near Prairie Bluff. Officers are in contact with him by phone. He reports being near a Valvoline or Maverick gas station close to Highway 141. Police are checking locations and asking others to stay nearby until he is found.

Audio|Source: Westcom Police Dispatch
02:49
Transcript:
00:00
3837 a trip.
00:03
Go ahead.
00:05
A return trip at the Come and Go, 400 Prairie Bluff.
00:10
Reference (name withheld) from earlier, evidently he was supposed to stay there until his rank got there, but he took off.
00:16
We're going to try giving (name withheld) a call to see if he'll answer us and tell us where he's at.
00:21
He made it sound like he was up towards Highway 141.
00:25
I don't know if there's any way that he could have gotten up there or not.
00:30
Copy. Is he taken that come and go or the one on Prairie?
00:38
He ended up being right out to this one on Prairie Bluff.
00:43
Copy that. Copy that.
00:46
3850 Adam, you can put us on that as well.
00:49
Kevin, thanks, yes.
00:55
2631, truck.
00:58
2631. 2631.
01:01
I'll be in the near Hickman.
01:04
I've played Nora Young John 405, NYJ 405.
01:09
Near Hickman is 014.
01:17
3837.
01:20
Go ahead.
01:22
And 3850. We've got him on the phone now.
01:25
He's telling us that he remembers seeing a Valvaline or a Maverick gas station, and that's what he's trying to figure out his surroundings right now.
01:38
Copy. Copy.
01:47
839.
01:50
3839.
01:52
If you guys are still no phone this RP, could you have them wait until we find them and not go home?
01:59
Yeah, we told them that we were going to look for them and hopefully stay close, so.
02:07
Cover that, thank you.
02:09
You bet.
02:12
38, that's you, Adam.
02:14
Go ahead.
02:16
Can you give (name withheld) a callback and have her wait as well, so she doesn't drive all the way back to Webster?
02:28
Yeah,
02:29
we told the people we talked to not to go anywhere, so they were supposed to stay close, and we would call them if we had an update on them.
02:40
3837. I'll be at the Maverick on Grand Prairie.
02:42
I see a mail matching its description.
02:44
I'm going to go make contact.
02:46
Okay, back over at Maverick on Grand Prairie.

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