{"id":112126,"date":"2026-01-09T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112126\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:29:06","slug":"police-search-for-missing-and-endangered-elderly-man-last-seen-near-lawnwood-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112126\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for missing and endangered elderly man last seen near Lawnwood Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 Police are searching for a missing and endangered 78-year-old, last seen on Thursday near Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Fort Pierce Police Department say Richard Folks Jones was last seen wearing camo shorts and a black shirt. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement described Jones as approximately 5&#8217;7&#8243; and 130 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/police-say-a-fight-between-mothers-ended-with-gunfire-in-boynton-beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police say a fight between mothers ended with gunfire in Boynton Beach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard reportedly suffers from health concerns and requires prescribed medications.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Police urge anyone with information on Richard&#8217;s whereabouts to contact the Fort Pierce Police Department at 772-979-1429.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Police are searching for a missing and endangered 78-year-old, last seen on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-112126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}