{"id":430214,"date":"2026-10-17T05:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430214\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T05:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:02:23","slug":"purple-alert-canceled-for-missing-tallahassee-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430214\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Alert canceled for missing Tallahassee man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: The Purple Alert was cancelled by FDLE on Friday, Oct. 16. No other information was provided.<\/p>\n

ORIGINAL STORY<\/p>\n

A Florida Purple Alert has been issued for a 45-year-old Tallahassee man who was last seen earlier this week in Leon County, and authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating him.<\/p>\n

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Travis Chester was last seen Oct. 12 in the area of the 1000 block of Nature Trail Way in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n

According to the alert issues Thursday, Chester is 6-foot-3 and weighs about 215 pounds. He is bald, has brown eyes and may have long dreadlocks on the sides of his head.<\/p>\n

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A Florida Purple Alert has been issued for a 45-year-old Tallahassee man who was last seen earlier this week in Leon County, and authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating him.<\/p>\n

Authorities said Chester was last seen wearing a light-colored red or yellow dress shirt and old blue jeans.<\/p>\n

Investigators believe he may be traveling in a black 2024 Dodge Ram 1500 bearing Florida tag number 80VCCK.<\/p>\n

Purple Alerts are issued in Florida to help locate missing adults with mental or cognitive disabilities whose disappearance poses a credible threat to their safety.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information about Chester’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Leon County Sheriff’s Office at 850-606-3300 or call 911. Information also may be provided through FDLE’s Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse at 1-888-356-4774.<\/p>\n

Authorities are asking anyone who sees Chester or the vehicle described in the alert not to approach him, but instead contact law enforcement immediately.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Purple Alert canceled for missing Tallahassee man<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update: The Purple Alert was cancelled by FDLE on Friday, Oct. 16. No other information was provided. ORIGINAL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-430214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430214","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=430214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}