@ Capt.Gary If this is you and you want to "locate him", there is another Randall dealer named Rick Bowles who can maybe help you do that . He is banned here, so I can not give you a link to his site. He was/is real close with Rick ward. He posted the other day on FB, that he knows him for over 30 years and even helped him become a dealer. He also mentioned a lot of details about the current situation of Rick ward.
I presume that since he knows so much about his current situation, he perhaps is still having contact with him. You can find Rick Bowles on the internet or look at his post about Rick Ward on the Randall Knives Facebook page. That is were he mentioned the details about his friend.
Yes, great idea. Contact his friend and ask him to sell out his buddy.
Give Rick a chance to recover and make things right. If he's gone dark and isn't responding there's got to be a good reason.