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The search is continuing. Agencies are conducting ground searches in the area with dog teams from Sawyer County Search and Rescue and St. Louis County Search and Rescue. We have no new leads at this time. If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of Richard, please call the Ashland county Sheriff’s Office at 715-682-7023 opt 1.
On July 12, 2019 at approximately 9:30 A.M., the Ashland County 9-1-1 Communications Center received a telephone call from a U.S. Forest Park Ranger reporting a camper was unaccounted for at the East Twin Lake campground in the Township of Gordon just north of Clam Lake. Ashland County Sheriff’s Deputies responded and assisted the U.S. Forest Service with an initial search of the area with negative results.
The camper, identified as Richard J. Dilabio age 66 from Bonduel WI, checked into the campground on July 10, 2019. He was last seen a wearing dark green shirt, blue jeans and motorcycle leathers. Richard is 5’11”, weighs 163 pounds, and has brown hair and brown eyes. He was riding a 1990 BMW motorcycle, green and yellow in color. The motorcycle was still at the camp site. A photograph of Richard taken at the Kwik Trip in Park Falls on July 9, 2019 is attached.
If anyone has seen Richard since Wednesday July 10, 2019 or knows anything of his whereabouts, please contact the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office at 715-682-7023 ext. 1
