The Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Department was assisting with the search Tuesday for a Fort Smith, Ark., man reported missing Monday by his family.
Glen Ray Cook Jr., 46, was believed to have ceased taking his medications, and may be using methamphetamines, the Fort Smith police were told by family members. The family told police Cook disappeared June 11.
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Cook is described as 5 feet, 11 inches tall and as weighing 210 pounds. He has hazel eyes and brown hair.
Sheriff Ron Lockhart said Tuesday morning, “We are south of Muldrow at the Mayo Dam on the sand bar working with the Fort Smith Police Department on a missing persons case. We have found the missing person’s vehicle and we suspect foul play.”
Lockhart said the missing man’s vehicle, a 1998 maroon Hyundai Accent, was found and secured. County officials were waiting on Fort Smith police to process the car Tuesday morning, and the vehicle was towed Tuesday afternoon.
Lockhart said Tuesday afternoon that Cook’s vehicle was seen at the Wilson Rock Park Saturday, but a license check showed that the vehicle was not reported stolen.
Lockhart said Cook has aquaintances in Sequoyah County, and his investigators were interviewing those people.
The public information officer at the Fort Smith Police Department was also out of his office at Your TIMES press time and unavailable for comment.
Fort Smith police said the family reported they received an anonymous call on Cook’s cell phone. According to reports, the caller said both the cell phone and vehicle were found in the “bottoms.”
According to the missing persons report, Cook is a paranoid schizophrenic. A niece told Fort Smith police she was driving him around on June 11 when he had her stop the car and he searched under the car and in the trunk because he thought he was being “followed by Asians.”
Your TIMES will publish more information as it becomes available.
