{"id":534944,"date":"2026-03-14T02:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534944\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T02:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:02:23","slug":"ottawa-police-seek-help-locating-man-42-missing-since-march-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534944\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa police seek help locating man, 42, missing since March 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ottawa police have requested public assistance in locating Jean-Alex Leconte, 42, who was last seen March 7 in the 1900 block of St-Joseph Boulevard in Orl\u00e9ans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is known to spend time in downtown Ottawa and in the Montreal Road area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A release on Friday described Leconte as Black and standing five feet nine inches tall with an average build and a salt-and-pepper beard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said he often wore hats and a brown or red hoodie and possibly was carrying a red\/black backpack.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information about his whereabouts was asked to contact the Ottawa Police Service at 613-236-1222.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark our <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;homepage&quot;}\" class=\"link \">homepage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sign up for our newsletters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;sign up for our newsletters&quot;}\" class=\"link \">sign up for our newsletters<\/a>\u00a0so we can keep you informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa police have requested public assistance in locating Jean-Alex Leconte, 42, who was last seen March 7 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,196149,209387,209389,20739,194907,209388],"class_list":["post-534944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-downtown-ottawa","tag-jean-alex-leconte","tag-leconte","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-police","tag-public-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534944","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=534944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}