License plate reader helps Culpeper Police find missing 88-year-old man from North Carolina

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Culpeper, VA - Police in Virginia are crediting new technology for helping to reunite a missing man with his daughter.

Last week at around 8 p.m., an automated license plate reader notified Culpeper Police officers that a vehicle registered to a missing endangered adult had just entered the town. Two officers located the car at a gas station on Madison Road.

The officers confirmed the driver was an 88-year-old man with dementia reported missing from North Carolina.

Body cam and dash cam footage from the police department capture the conversation between the man and the officers.

One of the officers asks the man if he knows where he is.

"I'm about 35 miles from Statesville (North Carolina)," the man replies. The officers realized it wasn't safe to release the man from police custody. Out of an abundance of caution, officers took the man to a hospital to check for injuries.

The officers made contact with the Hoke County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina to let them know they had picked up the man in the case. The 88-year-old had been reported missing that morning by family members.

After speaking to the sheriff's office, officers were able to contact the man's daughter by phone.

"Do you have him? Oh my God, thank you!" the daughter says in body camera footage.

The man was reunited with his family safely.