{"id":455975,"date":"2026-02-08T07:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455975\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:47:07","slug":"72-year-old-man-missing-from-his-pearl-city-care-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455975\/","title":{"rendered":"72-year-old man missing from his Pearl City care home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <img width=\"760\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/web1_Richard-Villaruel-web.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid h-100 w-100\" alt=\"COURTESY CRIMESTOPPERS&#10;                                Richard Villaruel\" style=\"max-height:600px;object-fit:contain;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>COURTESY CRIMESTOPPERS<\/p>\n<p>Richard Villaruel<\/p>\n<p>CrimeStoppers and police are asking for the public\u2019s help in finding a 72-year-old man who has been missing from his Pearl City care home since Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Villaruel, who suffers from mental health issues and requires daily medications for his medical conditions, was last seen leaving his care home at about 7 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he has not been seen or heard from since.<\/p>\n<p>His caregivers are concerned for his safety and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Villaruel is 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, with black and silver hair and brown eyes. He is of Filipino ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown what clothing he was wearing.<\/p>\n<p>                        Don&#8217;t miss out on what&#8217;s happening!<\/p>\n<p class=\"email-form-blurb m-0\">Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It&#8217;s FREE!<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information concerning Villaruel\u2019s whereabouts is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 808-955-8300, or send anonymous web tips to <a href=\"http:\/\/honolulucrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">honolulucrimestoppers.org<\/a> or via the P3 Tips app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COURTESY CRIMESTOPPERS Richard Villaruel CrimeStoppers and police are asking for the public\u2019s help in finding a 72-year-old man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-455975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455975","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=455975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}