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Search Underway for Missing Waterford Man


OXFORD COUNTY, Maine (WGAN) Wardens are asking for help from hunters as they search for a missing Waterford man.

Corporal John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service says 49-year-old Ricky Howard of Waterford was last seen at AJ’s Everything Store in Stoneham around noon on Friday, October 5th. Wardens say Howard’s black 2008 Toyota RAV4 was located by a landowner on Sunday, October 7th off Deer Hill Road in Waterford.

Police have received minimal additional information since Howard’s disappearance but feel he is likely in the Waterford, Stoneham or Harrison areas. Game wardens have searched the woods around his Norway Road home and the area surrounding Howard’s Toyota RAV4 found on the 7th.

Howard is six feet tall, weighs 158 pounds and has blue eyes and brown/grey hair. It’s believed he was wearing a black sweatshirt, black sweatpants with work boots. Police are asking anyone who may have seen Ricky Howard in the Waterford, Stoneham or Harrison areas since October 5th to please call the Oxford County Sheriff’s Department at (207) 743-9554.

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