{"id":366242,"date":"2026-08-08T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366242\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:10:09","slug":"broward-deputies-search-for-senior-with-dementia-reported-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366242\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward deputies search for senior with dementia reported missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 8, 2026 at 9:11 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/OHRX6ZEP5ZAHRDIIFU5FWL2PN4.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WEST PARK, Fla.  \u2014 Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office detectives asked for the public\u2019s help Saturday in locating a 73-year-old man, who they say was reported missing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to detectives, Francel Swain was last seen around 6 p.m. Friday, in the 1900 block of Southwest 57th Avenue in West Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said Swain is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds. He has grey hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing an olive-green polo shirt, a green ball cap, brown cargo pants and brown shoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to this family, Swain suffers from dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to contact BSO Detective Chris Blankenship at 954-321-4268 or the BSO non-emergency number at 954-764-4357. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 8, 2026 at 9:11 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand WEST PARK, Fla. \u2014 Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office detectives asked for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-366242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366242","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=366242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}