DEBARY -- A wife's oncern about her husband's whereabouts when he failed to return to their DeBary home Thursday night after a trip to Orlando, had a happy ending early this morning.
The alert was issued for Albert Kaplan, who drove off from the couple's home on Madera Road in DeBary at 2 p.m. Five hours later, his wife said someone in the Orlando area called to tell her that he had come across Kaplan and had given him directions on how to get back to his house.
The wife called the Volusia County Sheriff's Office because Kaplan suffers from dementia and other medical ailments. The alert to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement provided a driver description and the car itself, a black, 2009 Volkswagen Jetta with Florida tag, "BDD1X." The license plate is a retired U.S. Army tag.
The story has a happy ending, according to Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson in a 1:34 a.m. media alert: "The Palm Bay Police Department has recovered Kaplan, and his wife is en-route to pick him up."
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