{"id":400828,"date":"2026-08-08T02:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400828\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:44:36","slug":"lubbock-police-searching-for-missing-endangered-man-david-mendez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400828\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Police searching for missing, endangered man, David Mendez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">From LPD News Release<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Police Department is asking for the public\u2019s help in locating 69-year-old David Mendez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say because of his medical diagnoses and need for medication, there is concern for Mendez\u2019s welfare due to his extended absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mendez was last seen after 2 p.m. near the 5400 block of Avenue A. He is described as a Hispanic male, 5 feet 8 inches tall and approximately 140 pounds, with gray and black hair, a gray beard and hazel eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mendez was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with \u201cHollister\u201d on the front, black shorts and black house shoes with a Texas Longhorn logo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you see Mendez or know where he may be, police ask that you call 911 or the Lubbock Police Department\u2019s non-emergency number at 806-775-2865.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say Mendez does not meet the criteria for a Silver Alert at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From LPD News Release LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Police Department is asking for the public\u2019s help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-400828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400828","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=400828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}