Milford Police Find Missing Man Trapped Under Car In Woods

MILFORD, MA — Several Milford police officers are being credited with saving a missing Hopedale man after a daylong search over the weekend.

According to Chief James Falvey, Hopedale police contacted Milford on Sunday morning to ask for help finding the man. Local police focused their search on a wooded area between Route 85, I-495 and the Walden Woods development near the Hopkinton line because the missing man's cellphone was sending a signal from that area.

After about seven hours of searching — including with ATVs and a drone — Milford police officers Crystal Gallagher and Jacob Campbell found the man in the woods trapped inside an overturned vehicle.

The man was alert and conscious, but was in pain. A Hopkinton Fire Department ambulance took him to Milford Regional for treatment.

Falvey credited Sunday shift supervisor Sgt. Joseph Rizoli with leading the search and Deputy Chief Robert Tusino for operating the drone. A state police K9 and Hopkinton police and firefighters also helped with the search.

"I am very thankful and appreciative of all the hard work and efforts by members of the Milford Police Department, which include Tusino, Rizoli, patrol officers Jeanne Van Patten-Steiger, Jonathan Branch, Michael Johnson, James Woodward, Brian Sanchioni, and dispatchers Amanda Gresian, Jonathan Shurman and Felipe Benjamin," Falvey said in a news release. "All of you helped in successfully locating the missing man for over 24 hours and through the night and in distress."