{"id":448471,"date":"2026-08-31T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448471\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:14:09","slug":"search-launched-for-at-risk-la-mesa-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448471\/","title":{"rendered":"Search launched for at-risk La Mesa man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA MESA, Calif. (CNS) &#8211; An at-risk man who went missing from his La Mesa home this weekend was still missing Sunday, according to the La Mesa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Rose, 62, was last seen in the 5600 block of Amaya Drive at approximately 9 a.m. Saturday. He suffers from dementia and apparently wandered away from home, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Rose was described as a Black man, 6-feet tall and weighing about 235 pounds. He has short black hair and was last seen wearing a light blue sweatshirt, gray shorts and black shoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Detectives discovered that Harold rode the MTS trolley to downtown La Mesa and then walked to the area of Fourth Street and La Mesa Boulevard shortly after 9 a.m.,&#8221; the LMPD said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He was possibly seen Saturday afternoon at a Wendy&#8217;s at 8749 Campo Road.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert to help locate him.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the case was encouraged to immediately call the La Mesa Police Department at 619-667-1400. Anyone who believes they may have located Rose was encouraged to call 911.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA MESA, Calif. (CNS) &#8211; An at-risk man who went missing from his La Mesa home this weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[177562,177563,177564,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-448471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-amaya-drive-la-mesa","tag-harold-rose","tag-missing-man-la-mesa","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448471","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=448471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}