Police in Long Beach Friday sought the public\u2019s help in locating a missing 71-year-old man considered at risk because of cognitive issues.<\/p>\n
Pita Pita Jr. was last seen about 8 p.m. Thursday in the area of 52nd Street and Atlantic Avenue. He was driving a white 2015 Volvo S60 four-door with California license plate 8YRL958.<\/p>\n
Pita may become disoriented, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
He is described as 5 feet, 7 inches tall, 185 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. He was wearing a light gray sweater and black-and-gray plaid shorts.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding Pita was urged to call the LBPD\u2019s Missing Persons Detail at 562-570-7246 or LBPD dispatch at 562-435-6711. Anonymous tips may be submitted through LA Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or at www.lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Long Beach Friday sought the public\u2019s help in locating a missing 71-year-old man considered at risk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1773,174,18808,131,133,132,1555,1770],"class_list":{"0":"post-136475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-at-risk","9":"tag-beach","10":"tag-goes","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-man","15":"tag-missing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}