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BISMARCK -- Civil Air Patrol North Dakota Wing and North Dakota National Guard are supporting the mission to find Artoun Gostantian in the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
The North Dakota Department of Emergency Services (NDDES) Watch Center is coordinating requests for state aviation support to help locate the hiker missing since Sunday, July 19.
According to NDDES information, the Civil Air Patrol launched one crew out of Dickinson Wednesday, July 22, concentrating on the area of the last known position based on information provided by the Civil Air Patrol cell phone forensics team and Air Force Rescue Coordination Center. Civil Air Patrol was scheduled to fly again Thursday, July 23. The National Guard also supported the mission Thursday, flying a UH-72 Lakota with a Forward-Looking InfraRed (FLIR) camera.
State Emergency Communications Center has also attempted to ping his cell phone several times.
Gostantian was driving a silver 2022 Toyota RAV4 that has been located at the North Unit.
Anyone with any information who could assist in the search, is asked to contact the New Town Police Department via the Mountrail County Sheriff's Office at 628-2975.