EAU CLAIRE, WI (WTAQ-WRN) — A missing Wisconsin veteran has been located in the Southwest.
Early Tuesday morning, a Green Alert for 51-year-old Shane Helmbrecht was canceled after officers from the Pojoaque Tribal Police Department located Helmbrecht near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
At the direction of authorities from Eau Claire County, Helmbrecht was released.
Helmbrecht was last seen Friday at a group home in Tomah to which he was court ordered after being found incompetent to stand trial in a 2016 homicide.
Helmbrecht was free to come and go from that facility, but there’s no word as to why he was in New Mexico or if he is expected to return to Wisconsin.
