{"id":371134,"date":"2026-08-14T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371134\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:26:11","slug":"joseph-j-zdrodowski-found-safe-in-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371134\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph J. Zdrodowski found safe in Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">LAKE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Office has announced an update regarding a missing and endangered 87-year-old man from Groveland who has dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Deuties say that Joseph J. Zdrodowski was safely located in Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>Missing elderly man spotted in Orange County in silver Nissan Rogue<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Deputies are searching for a missing and endangered 87-year-old Groveland man who has dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Joseph J. Zdrodowski was last seen around 2:50 p.m. Wednesday driving a silver Nissan Rogue with Florida license plate CL84ZY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The vehicle was spotted around 9:54 a.m. Thursday traveling south on Alafaya Trail near Waterford Lakes in Orange County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Zdrodowski was last seen wearing black cargo pants, a gray T-shirt, black shoes and a NASA hat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Anyone who sees Zdrodowski or his vehicle should contact the Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Office or their local law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786692371_306_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update: LAKE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Office has announced an update regarding a missing and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,145,23160,28,30325,150070,14234,2454,1335,139,141,140,144,146],"class_list":["post-371134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-channel-9","tag-dementia","tag-florida","tag-groveland","tag-joseph-j-zdrodowski","tag-lake-county-sheriffs-office","tag-missing-person","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-wftv","tag-wftv-channel-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371134","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=371134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}