{"id":130447,"date":"2026-03-05T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130447\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:10:41","slug":"police-say-missing-lower-saucon-man-found-safe-saucon-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/130447\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Say Missing Lower Saucon Man Found Safe \u2013 Saucon Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: Shortly after sharing a news release and flyer Thursday morning about the disappearance of 89-year-old Rodney Reichard, Lower Saucon Police said he had been located and is safe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lower Saucon Township Police are asking for the public\u2019s help with locating an 89-year-old township man they say is missing and endangered.<\/p>\n

According to a statement published on the department\u2019s Crimewatch site<\/a> Thursday, Rodney Reichard has not been home since leaving his residence on Victor Road around 2 p.m. Wednesday. At the time, he was operating a 2013 white Volvo XC70 with PA registration MWD1334.<\/p>\n

Police said Reichard has since been spotted in Bethlehem and Hellertown, where investigators are currently processing leads.<\/p>\n

He is described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall and 185 pounds with white hair.<\/p>\n

Police said they believe Reichard may be confused and at special risk of harm or injury, and issued a Silver Alert in connection with his disappearance. Silver alerts are part of a public notification system used to locate missing seniors or individuals with cognitive impairments, such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease or dementia.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has seen Reichard or has information related to his whereabouts is asked to contact Lower Saucon Police at 610-759-2200 as sooon as possible.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lower Saucon Township Police shared this flyer that is being circulated to help locate 89-year-old Rodney Reichard, who left his home Wednesday afternoon and hasn\u2019t returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update: Shortly after sharing a news release and flyer Thursday morning about the disappearance of 89-year-old Rodney Reichard,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,41955,204,205,1399,4125,434,206,17832,60597],"class_list":["post-130447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-endangered","tag-hellertown","tag-lower-saucon-township","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-northampton-county","tag-police","tag-senior","tag-silver-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130447","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=130447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}