Easton Woman Hospitalized After Missing Person Search

A Prospect Street resident was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Friday morning after a 30 minute manhunt that found her unconscious in the woods.

Police first received a call at approximately 9 a.m. reporting the woman missing and a search was immediately initiated, Police Chief Allen Krajcik said.

Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council arrived with a canine team and within 30 minutes, one of the dogs named "Chalko" located the woman in a thinkly wooded area approximately a half mile from her home. She was immediately taken to Good Samaritan by the Easton Fire Department.

Krajcik said Easton is one of 44 towns that is a member of MetroLEC, which "provides highly trained specialized teams of officers that can assist in law enforcement agencies when needed," such as a motorcycle unit, a special weapons and tactics team, a computer crime unit, a crisis negotiation unit, a rapid reaction team, and canine teams.

"Our community is fortunate to be a member of MetroLEC as it gives us immediate acces to these specialized units as we are not able to provide the manpower or cost of having our own such units," Krajcik said.