{"id":473578,"date":"2026-10-22T17:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473578\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:18:16","slug":"las-cruces-police-issue-silver-alert-for-missing-76-year-old-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473578\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Cruces police issue Silver Alert for missing 76-year-old with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Las Cruces police have issued a Silver Alert for a missing 76-year-old man with dementia who may be trying to go to El Paso. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Las Cruces Police Department, Martin Avalos was last seen Thursday at 7:45 a.m. on the 2000 block of Sagecrest Avenue in Las Cruces.<\/p>\n<p>LCPD believes he may be on foot and trying to reach El Paso. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/las-cruces-mother-accused-of-choking-crying-6-year-old?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Cruces mother accused of choking crying 6-year-old<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Avalos is said to suffer from dementia and several health issues that could put him in danger if he is not found quickly.  <\/p>\n<p>Avalos is described as being 5&#8217;7&#8221; feet tall and weighing about 160 pounds, and was last seen wearing a black outfit&#8211; hoodie, pants and a black camouflage Bass Pro Shop cap.<\/p>\n<p>Police say if you see Avalos, call 575-526-0795 immediately.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/texas-medical-board-suspends-el-paso-doctors-license-without-notice-after-arrest?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Medical Board suspends El Paso doctor&#8217;s license without notice after arrest<\/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":"LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Las Cruces police have issued a Silver Alert for a missing 76-year-old man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-473578","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\/473578","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=473578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}