The search for a missing person over the weekend ended sadly Monday when the Rock County Sheriff’s Office announced that the man had been found, but that he’d died near his pickup that was in the ditch near Hardwick.
The search for 39-year-old Jason Remme, Luverne, began Saturday morning after his family reported to the Sheriff’s Office that he hadn’t been seen since Friday around 7 p.m.
An “attempt to locate” was circulated among surrounding law enforcement agencies, and his mother, Idella Rye, shared on Facebook a photograph of her son and his pickup.
“He has epilepsy. We don't know if he has any of his meds,” she wrote, asking people to call the Sheriff’s Office if they’d seen him.
She said he’d been seen Saturday late afternoon at Blue Mound Liquor where he’d left his cell phone.
The post was shared widely on social media, and on Monday the Rock County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a pickup in the ditch near the intersection of 191st St. and 160th Ave near Hardwick.
The Ford pickup matched the description of the one Remme had been driving.
In a statement released Monday evening, Sheriff Evan Verbrugge said Remme had been found, but that he had died about 20 yards from where his truck went in the ditch.
Temperatures Saturday night hovered in the teens.
“Foul play is not suspected,” Verbrugge said. “Our deepest sympathies go out to the Remme family during this time of grief.”
Remme was transported to Ramsey County Medical Center where an autopsy will be conducted. Hartquist Funeral Home assisted with transportation.