UPDATE: Sheriff's Office Cancels Missing Person Alert

Pasco Sheriff’s deputies called off a search for a missing man after he was found alive at his home Wednesday evening.

Deputies had been searching for Ronald Purdy, 49, since his bike was found two miles from the Starkey Blvd. entrance to Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park on March 22.  Purdy had been depressed and wrote a suicide note, said Sheriff’s Office Spokesman Doug Tobin. He was found in OK condition at his home before 6:37 p.m., according to a media alert. 

Purdy had told his girlfriend he was going to the park, Tobin said.

The Sheriff's Office had been searching the park by air, horseback and foot and had intended to do so until sundown, but the search was called off when Purdy was found.

Story last updated at 7 p.m.