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Update: Missing elderly man with Alzheimer's is back home safe

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Story by Lucy Valencia, Assignment Desk Editor - email

YUMA, Ariz. (KSWT News 13) - San Luis police say the 71-year-old elderly man reported missing Saturday afternoon has been found and is back home with his loved ones tonight.

Police tell us family members found Elpidio Castro Rodriguez in San Luis, Mexico, this morning.

They found the 71-year-old sitting on a bench at a local park.

Police say Rodriguez appeared disoriented.

He suffers from high blood pressure and memory loss.

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