{"id":480114,"date":"2026-02-17T07:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480114\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:27:12","slug":"toronto-police-searching-for-80-year-old-man-missing-from-scarborough-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480114\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police searching for 80-year-old man missing from Scarborough area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/missing-senior-steven.jpg\" alt=\"Toronto police are searching for 80-year-old Steven who went missing from the Sheppard Avenue and Birchmount Road area on Sunday. HANDOUT\/Toronto Police Service\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto police are searching for 80-year-old Steven who went missing from the Sheppard Avenue and Birchmount Road area on Sunday. HANDOUT\/Toronto Police Service <\/p>\n<p>Toronto police are searching for an 80-year-old man who went missing from Scarborough on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Steven was last seen in the Sheppard Avenue and Birchmount Road area around 2:30 p.m. He was later seen walking on Birchmount Road, south of Ellesmere Road at 3:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>He is described as five foot six inches with a slim build and short grey hair that is balding. He was last seen wearing a navy blue button-down style dress shirt, a navy blue fleece vest, blue jeans and grey running shoes with white soles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"254\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4c086961-ec1e-4935-91ac-de36d74c099b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4766448\"\/>Steven. HANDOUT\/Toronto Police Service<\/p>\n<p>Officers say he has been diagnosed with dementia and takes medication so they are concerned for his safety. He is also not believed to be dressed for the cold.<\/p>\n<p>Steven is believed to be on foot. He lives in the Scarborough area in a long term care home and he has gone missing before.<\/p>\n<p>There will be increased police patrols in the area along with drone support to try and help find him. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are searching for 80-year-old Steven who went missing from the Sheppard Avenue and Birchmount Road area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-480114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}