{"id":156134,"date":"2026-02-08T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156134\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:51:09","slug":"missing-new-mexico-man-last-seen-in-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156134\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing New Mexico man last seen in El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 El Paso Police are seeking a missing 80-year-old Silver City, New Mexico, man who never reached his destination while in El Paso, they said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Rafael Acosta\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"226\" height=\"302\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6133984c7fe240e08670e4140945a1c5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rafael Acosta<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police issued a Silver Alert for Rafael Acosta, 80, of Silver City on Sunday morning, Feb. 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was last heard from at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6. The missing man reached out to the person who reported him as missing, saying he was in El Paso, but Acosta never reached his destination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The missing man is driving a gray 2014 Chrysler 300 with New Mexico plates AGGL99. The last known location of the vehicle was in Central El Paso, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Actual vehicle\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"209\" height=\"308\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f9de43099cb13452404f6478ec4fc4c9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Actual vehicle<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was last seen wearing a blue or white baseball hat, silver jacket and blue or black joggers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If the missing person is found, you should call the Crimes Against Persons unit at (915) 212-4040.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 El Paso Police are seeking a missing 80-year-old Silver City, New Mexico, man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[22820,138,140,139,1785,2383,64309,32690,64310],"class_list":{"0":"post-156134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-central-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-headlines","11":"tag-el-paso-news","12":"tag-el-paso-police","13":"tag-new-mexico","14":"tag-rafael-acosta","15":"tag-silver-alert","16":"tag-silver-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}