{"id":418843,"date":"2026-07-31T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418843\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:53:08","slug":"missing-eugene-man-found-in-ukiah-california-after-daylong-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418843\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Eugene man found in Ukiah, California, after daylong search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EUGENE, Ore. \u2014 A Eugene man <a href=\"https:\/\/kval.com\/news\/local\/eugene-police-seek-missing-endangered-79-year-old-man-with-dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who went missing on Wednesday<\/a> was found Thursday afternoon in Ukiah, California.<\/p>\n<p>Family members of 79-year-old Paul Ralph McGill, who have been searching for McGill, were notified by the Ukiah Police Department that he was found at a gas station in town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are holding him there, and then they&#8217;ve asked for services to come in to support him based on his mental and physical well-being,\u201d said McGill\u2019s nephew, Larry Pegas, \u201cand then we&#8217;re en route to Ukiah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGill went missing Wednesday after last being seen at Jerry&#8217;s in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>When he did not come home his family filed a missing person&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day a charge on McGill&#8217;s card was made in Canyonville, then later in Medford he was spotted by automated license plate reader (ALPR).<\/p>\n<p><p>Missing 79-year-old Oregon man found safe in Ukiah, California<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning, he was spotted in Willits, Calif., by another ALPR and found around 30 miles south of the town around 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>McGill\u2019s family is currently on the way to pick McGill up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUGENE, Ore. \u2014 A Eugene man who went missing on Wednesday was found Thursday afternoon in Ukiah, California.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-418843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}