Missing McIntosh trustee found after overnight search

MCINTOSH COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - An overnight search in McIntosh County is over, with a jail trustee now back in custody.

According to the McIntosh County Sheriff’s Office, 47-year-old Michael Joseph Concannon left a work assignment Tuesday evening and got into a waiting vehicle.

Deputies then searched the area for both Concannon and the suspect vehicle.

Law enforcement later stopped that vehicle on Highway 251 and arrested the driver. Concannon was not inside. Investigators said he may have been at a Darien hotel before disappearing. Deputies say they searched the hotel and were not able to find Concannon, the search shifted strategies at around 5 a.m. Wednesday morning.

After a multi-agency search through the night, Concannon was found around 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, in a marshy area behind the Dunwoody Plantation neighborhood. He was taken into custody, treated medically, and is set to be returned to the McIntosh County Detention Center.

A jail trustee is an inmate trusted with, and assigned to, specific duties inside or outside the facility, such as cleaning, food service, laundry, or landscaping, often in exchange for privileges like “good time” credit, reduced sentences, or increased movement. They are generally well-behaved inmates who present lower security risks.

Concannon is from Orlando, Florida and was being housed in the McIntosh County Detention Center for failure to appear charge.