Deputies find missing North Carolina soldier in Arkansas, take him to hospital

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Source: AP

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies say they have found a North Carolina soldier missing since Feb. 10 in Arkansas.

Hot Spring County sheriff's deputies say they took 22-year-old Spc. Joseph E. Putnam into custody late Wednesday night at a mobile home park near the county line. Investigator Robert Terry told The Associated Press that Putnam was involuntarily committed and taken to a Malvern hospital for treatment.

Terry says Putnam, who has family in Bismarck, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving a tour in Iraq. He apparently left Fort Bragg and took a bus to Arkansas, where surveillance camera footage at an ATM showed him withdrawing money.

Read more: http://www.wreg.com/sns-bc-ar--missingsoldier,0,955376.story

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1. Did they tag his CC or do they just watch all these cameras with

software that matches up faces? Not too long ago, such a thought would have been labeled paranoid - but not anymore it seems. The way the reporter wrote that sure doesn't help