{"id":377961,"date":"2026-07-18T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377961\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:51:21","slug":"silver-alert-issued-for-missing-87-year-old-man-last-seen-in-aransas-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377961\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Alert issued for missing 87-year-old man last seen in Aransas Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARANSAS PASS, Texas \u2014 A Silver Alert has been issued for an 87-year-old man who went missing  from Aransas Pass Friday night, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Leroy Wilke was last seen at 9:32 p.m. Friday traveling eastbound on Redfish Bay Causeway in Aransas Pass, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>He is described as a white male, 6 feet tall, weighing about 200 pounds, with gray hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a gray long-sleeve sweatshirt, gray sweatpants and gray-and-black Skechers shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Wilke may be traveling in a blue 2006 Chrysler 300 with Texas license plate HNZ9348.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials said they believe Wilke&#8217;s disappearance poses a credible threat to his health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Wilke&#8217;s whereabouts is asked to call the Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at (210) 335-6000, or 911 if he is spotted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARANSAS PASS, Texas \u2014 A Silver Alert has been issued for an 87-year-old man who went missing from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-377961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377961","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=377961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}