{"id":107853,"date":"2026-02-07T12:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107853\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:53:07","slug":"search-underway-for-missing-pittsburgh-man-with-early-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107853\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway for missing Pittsburgh man with early dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPittsburgh Police are looking for a missing 83-year-old man with early stages of dementia. Police say Lester Bridges was reported missing around 8 p.m. Friday. According to police, Bridges left a home on Hilliards Street in the city&#8217;s Lincoln-Lemington Belmar neighborhood to repair his truck but walked away. About two hours later, around 10:15 p.m., he was last seen on surveillance video walking along Silverton Avenue. Police say he is known to frequent a bus stop on Lincoln Avenue.  Bridges is described as being 6-feet tall with grey hair. He was last seen wearing a blue or grey hoodie with blue jeans and slippers. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 412-323-7141 or 911.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Police are looking for a missing 83-year-old man with early stages of dementia. <\/p>\n<p>Police say Lester Bridges was reported missing around 8 p.m. Friday. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, Bridges left a home on Hilliards Street in the city&#8217;s Lincoln-Lemington Belmar neighborhood to repair his truck but walked away. <\/p>\n<p>About two hours later, around 10:15 p.m., he was last seen on surveillance video walking along Silverton Avenue. Police say he is known to frequent a bus stop on Lincoln Avenue.  <\/p>\n<p>Bridges is described as being 6-feet tall with grey hair. He was last seen wearing a blue or grey hoodie with blue jeans and slippers. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call police at 412-323-7141 or 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police are looking for a missing 83-year-old man with early stages of dementia. Police say Lester Bridges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51838,51837,1304,51227,21450,79,23509,51834,51835,51836,86,51765,30533,22360,26256,4125,51832,51833,46371,73,75,3186,74,745],"class_list":["post-107853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-6-feet","tag-83-year-old-man","tag-1304","tag-blue-jean","tag-bridge","tag-city","tag-dementia","tag-early-dementia","tag-early-stage","tag-hilliards-street","tag-home","tag-lester-bridges","tag-lincoln-avenue","tag-lincoln-lemington-belmar","tag-lincoln-lemington-belmar-neighborhood","tag-missing","tag-missing-elderly-man","tag-missing-man","tag-p-m-friday","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-man","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107853","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=107853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}