{"id":107646,"date":"2026-02-07T04:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:37:09","slug":"pittsburgh-police-looking-for-missing-man-in-early-stages-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107646\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police looking for missing man in early stages of dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/67e7fc6992c0262cb283794f987c37a6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pittsburgh police are looking for a missing man suffering from the early stages of dementia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Special Victims Unit detectives said Lester Bridges, 83, went missing from a house on the 7200 block of Hilliards Street in Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators said he went outside to repair his truck but walked away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bridges was last seen on camera walking along Silverton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is known to frequent the bus stop on the 1200 block of Lincoln Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say he is 6 feet tall and weighs around 180 pounds. Bridges has grey hair and was last seen wearing a blue and grey hoodie, blue jeans and slippers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to call 412-323-7141 or 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police are looking for a missing man suffering from the early stages of dementia. Special Victims Unit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51765,73,75,74,745,51766],"class_list":["post-107646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-lester-bridges","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-special-victims-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}