A man missing from Georgia was located over the weekend after Crow Wing County sheriff's deputies responded to a suspicious person call.
The sheriff's office reported at 10:04 a.m. Saturday, July 14, it received a call of a suspicious man walking to a home on Country Lane, north of Brainerd, asking about an air compressor. A deputy made contact and learned the man was a missing person from Georgia. He made contact with family members and arranged for them to make contact with their son.
According to The Dahlonega Nugget, the newspaper of Dahlonega, Ga., just south of the Chattahoochee National Forest, reported the discovery of the man, who it identified as 20-year-old Curtis Jay "CJ" Elliott.
The Nugget stated Elliott disappeared July 4 from the Rainbow Family of Living Light Gathering in the national forest, according to the Lumpkin (Ga.) County Sheriff's Office. The Rainbow Family is a counterculture group organizing annual gatherings on public lands called Rainbow Gatherings to enact temporary societies based around the ideals of peace, harmony, freedom and respect, according to CNN. Elliott was missing for 10 days before he was located in Crow Wing County.
The newspaper reported friends and family feared the worst, as it was unlike Elliott not to contact them.
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Lt. Alan Roach of Lumpkin County told the Nugget he learned from Crow Wing County officials minor car trouble led to the discovery, and Elliott was attempting to inflate a tire.
