{"id":467216,"date":"2026-10-15T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467216\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:18:13","slug":"over-a-month-later-el-paso-police-still-searching-for-missing-man-with-mental-disorder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/467216\/","title":{"rendered":"Over a month later: El Paso police still searching for missing man with mental disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 It has been over a month, and El Paso police still need help finding a 61-year-old man with a mental disorder who was last seen leaving the Salvation Army in Central El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the El Paso Police Department issued an alert that it was still looking for Melvin Garcia, who had been last seen on August 24. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/police-seek-help-locating-missing-man-last-seen-after-leaving-salvation-army?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police seek help locating missing man last seen after leaving Salvation Army<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to EPPD, Garcia had been taken to the Salvation Army at 4300 E. Paisano from a medical facility but left, reportedly telling an employee he had been taken to the wrong location and would walk his way back.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs about 140 to 145 pounds and police report he has a mental disorder, but have not offered any more details beyond that. <\/p>\n<p>Garcia was last seen wearing a blue polo shirt, dark green cargo pants, black orthopedic Velcro shoes and a wooden rosary around his neck.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who sees Garcia or has information about his whereabouts is asked to call El Paso police\u2019s non-emergency number at 915-832-4400.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/las-cruces-girl-with-autism-dies-after-being-hit-by-train?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Cruces girl with autism dies after being hit by train<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 It has been over a month, and El Paso police still need help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-467216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467216","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=467216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}