{"id":137310,"date":"2026-01-17T05:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137310\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T05:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:23:12","slug":"missing-71-year-old-man-last-seen-in-long-beach-have-you-seen-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137310\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 71-Year-Old Man Last Seen In Long Beach. Have You Seen Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Authorities are searching for a missing 71-year-old man last seen in Long Beach on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/at-risk-missing-person---pita-pita-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pita Pita Jr. was last seen in the area<\/a> of 52nd Street and Atlantic Avenue at about 8 p.m., the Long Beach Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Pita is driving a 2015 white Volvo S60 four-door sedan, with California license plate 8YRL958. <\/p>\n<p>Pita has brown hair and eyes, stands 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds, according to police. He was last seen wearing a light gray sweater with black and gray plaid shorts.<\/p>\n<p>He \u201chas cognitive issues and may become disoriented,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who sees Pita is asked to contact police at 562-570-7246 or 562-435-6711.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Authorities are searching for a missing 71-year-old man last seen in Long Beach on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-137310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137310","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=137310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}