{"id":88303,"date":"2026-01-16T07:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88303\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:16:07","slug":"police-ask-for-help-locating-missing-endangered-man-in-berks-county-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88303\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ask for help locating missing, endangered man in Berks County | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. \u2013 Police are asking for the public\u2019s help locating a missing, endangered man from Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania State Police <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PAStatePolice\/status\/2011984611627196530?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">issued an advisory<\/a> Thursday night for 28-year-old Jamin Heck of Muhlenberg Township.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Heck was last seen in the area of Alice Road around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe Heck may be at special risk of harm or injury, or may be confused.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 300 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. It\u2019s not known what clothing he was wearing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on Heck is asked to contact police immediately by calling 911 or contacting the Muhlenberg Township Police Department directly at 610-929-5454.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"G-wBBfCXYAExqTw.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1553\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6969dcc232670.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"259\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. \u2013 Police are asking for the public\u2019s help locating a missing, endangered man from Berks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[41955,43904,3640,973,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-88303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-endangered","9":"tag-jamin-heck","10":"tag-missing-person","11":"tag-muhlenberg-township","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88303","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=88303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}