{"id":160264,"date":"2026-03-11T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160264\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:10:08","slug":"nyc-cops-searching-for-missing-mother-with-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160264\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC cops searching for missing mother with Alzheimer&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City police are searching for a missing 76-year-old mother who got separated from her husband on the subway late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Octavila Lopez, 76, was last seen around 5:30 p.m. riding a southbound 5 train at the Newkirk Avenue-Little Haiti in Brooklyn \u2014 about a mile from her home in East Flatbush, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez, who suffers from Alzheimer\u2019s disease, is described by police as 5 feet 6 inches tall and 140 pounds with brown eyes and gray hair.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.59179688;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38741842\" width=\"349\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/william-lopez-mother-missing-pictured-123299442.jpg\" alt=\"Lopez\" class=\"wp-image-38741842\"  \/>Octavila Lopez was separated from her husband on the subway Tuesday evening. William Lopez<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.46423562;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38741841\" width=\"274\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/140-pounds-brown-eyes-gray-123293934.jpg\" alt=\"Lopez\" class=\"wp-image-38741841\"  \/>Lopez suffers from Alzheimer\u2019s disease. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>Lopez was last seen wearing a black jacket, black pants, black shoes and carrying a black purse, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tips can also be submitted online at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/__;!!F0Stn7g!CLG_f8EK1qfex_IpwwHfMvrnkbyTPwxIdK2UvWsanH_fpG35GTyHmH_psWJxcimG6cJIE-4URvr0cq4v_Pc$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City police are searching for a missing 76-year-old mother who got separated from her husband on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,57,7373,9,24,56,63,65,64,615,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-160264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-missing-persons","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-subway","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}