{"id":422993,"date":"2026-10-09T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:10:09","slug":"80-year-old-man-goes-missing-in-ocoee-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422993\/","title":{"rendered":"80-year-old man goes missing in Ocoee, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791526209_707_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brandon Hogan\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>OCOEE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">An 80-year-old man has been reported missing out of Ocoee, police said Thursday.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">John Richard Stafford has been missing since about 4:45 p.m. Thursday, the Ocoee Police Department said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1479629237311757&amp;set=a.355615989713093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">He left his residence to go to Bill Breeze Park on a black mountain bike and has not returned home, the post states.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">&#8220;John has recently began showing signs of dementia but has not been officially diagnosed,&#8221; police said. &#8220;He has only been in the Ocoee area since October 3, 2026, and is from Washington State so he is not familiar with any location in Florida.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Anyone who sees Stafford or who has knowledge of his whereabouts is asked to call Detective De Vine at 407-905-3160. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCOEE, Fla. \u2014 An 80-year-old man has been reported missing out of Ocoee, police said Thursday. John Richard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[166829,135455,23160,28,166830,75200,5985,7820,28949,139,141,140,132,6551,3577,21275,1284,918],"class_list":["post-422993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-80-year-old-man","tag-bill-breeze-park","tag-dementia","tag-florida","tag-john-richard-stafford","tag-knowledge","tag-location","tag-ocoee","tag-ocoee-police-department","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-police","tag-residence","tag-sign","tag-social-medium","tag-thursday","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422993","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=422993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}