A Silver Alert is in effect Wednesday for a 78-year-old man who was reported missing after he was last seen in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
Geofrey Leyva was last spotted at approximately 4 p.m. Tuesday near Pacific Avenue and West 19th Street, according to the California Highway Patrol, which issued the alert on behalf of the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Leyva is white, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, has brown eyes and brown hair. Authorities say Leyva was wearing a gray and tan sweater, tan loafers, black pants and uses a black walker. He is believed to be traveling on foot.<\/p>\n
Anyone who has seen Leyva or knows of his whereabouts is asked to call 911.<\/p>\n
The CHP established the Silver Alert program to issue and coordinate alerts involving the unexplained or suspicious disappearances of elderly, developmentally disabled or cognitively impaired individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Silver Alert is in effect Wednesday for a 78-year-old man who was reported missing after he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2475,174,2477,131,133,132,1770,10865,2478],"class_list":["post-70755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-alert","tag-beach","tag-issued","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-missing","tag-reported","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70755","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=70755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}