{"id":401630,"date":"2026-08-09T05:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401630\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T05:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:02:33","slug":"lubbock-police-searching-for-missing-endangered-man-louis-jones-hines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401630\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Police searching for missing, endangered man Louis Jones Hines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Provided by LPD<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lubbock Police Department is asking for the public\u2019s help in locating 78-year-old Louis Jones Hines, who is considered an endangered missing person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers with the Lubbock Police Department Patrol Division and Major Crimes investigators are currently working to locate Hines and a Silver Alert is being issued.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"The Lubbock Police Department is asking for the public\u2019s help in locating 78-year-old Louis...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786251753_315_QMROB4ZX5FFHJKIN25OLUFA6WU.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1225\" \/>The Lubbock Police Department is asking for the public\u2019s help in locating 78-year-old Louis Jones Hines, who is considered an endangered missing person.(Lubbock Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hines was last seen in person at approximately 10:45 a.m. on August 8th. His phone was last detected in the area of the 3700 block of Erskine Street at approximately 6:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hines is a Black male, approximately 5 feet 4 inches tall and 175 pounds, with an average build, light complexion, short curly gray hair and brown eyes. He has a small burn mark on his right arm near his elbow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hines was last seen wearing a white shirt with an unknown image or lettering, blue jeans and thin reading glasses. He is known to walk very slowly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone who sees Hines or has information about where he may be is asked to call 911 or the Lubbock Police Department\u2019s non-emergency number at 806-775-2865.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided by LPD The Lubbock Police Department is asking for the public\u2019s help in locating 78-year-old Louis Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-401630","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\/401630","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=401630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}