{"id":396283,"date":"2026-01-09T01:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396283\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:17:12","slug":"police-searching-for-endangered-man-with-mental-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396283\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for endangered man with mental health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>POCATELLO \u2014 The Pocatello Police Department is asking for the public\u2019s help to locate 40-year-old Matthew Stuart Apted.<\/p>\n<p>He is considered a critically missing endangered person and may be suffering from mental health issues and suicidal ideations, according to a Pocatello police news release. <\/p>\n<p>Matthew left his apartment and belongings in a damaged state at the end of September 2025, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He continued to speak with his family on the phone through text and phone calls until December 16, 2025, when he stated that he would be boarding a plane to Colorado on Dec. 23, according to the release.  <\/p>\n<p>Matthew has not been heard from since.<\/p>\n<p>The last known clothing description was of Matthew wearing a long trench coat, and he was seen walking around Yellowstone in Pocatello. He is a white man with brown eyes and hair. He is 6 feet and weighs 175 pounds.  <\/p>\n<p>If you have seen Matthew or know where he may be, you\u2019re asked to contact the Pocatello Police Department at 208-234-6100.<\/p>\n<p> \t  \t  \t  \t=htmlentities(get_the_title())?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=get_permalink()?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=htmlentities(&#8216;For more stories like this one, be sure to visit https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/ for all of the latest news, community events and more.&#8217;)?&gt;&amp;subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20EastIdahoNews&#8221; class=&#8221;fa-stack jDialog&#8221;&gt;  \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POCATELLO \u2014 The Pocatello Police Department is asking for the public\u2019s help to locate 40-year-old Matthew Stuart Apted.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-396283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}