WORLAND — Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers on April 1 helped locate a Montana missing man through a traffic stop.

Trooper Melanie Kress, riding with Field Training Officer Erin Devries, executed a stop of a 2015 Ford F150 where the driver was southbound on U.S. 20 at milepost 127 in Hot Springs County. The driver was driving the pickup on the shoulder with flashers on.

When Trooper Kress approached the driver, Reuben Pitsch, 83, of Montana, he seemed confused and disoriented. He said he was heading to Hardin, Mont., despite heading in the opposite direction.

Kress contact the Golden Valley Sheriff’s Department and found that Pitsch had been missing since March 31 and had Alzheimer’s. Immediate attempts to contact family members were no successful so the troopers had an ambulance paged out from Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital. Pitsch was transported to the hospital until family members could arrive.