Brooklyn Park police are searching for a 64-year-old man who vanished on his bicycle over the weekend, and as of now, investigators have no confirmed answer for which direction he traveled after leaving his neighborhood. Carlos Evelio Jimenez-Alvarez was last seen Saturday riding a red-and-black bicycle near 73rd Court North and Newton Avenue North, according to official missing person alerts. He stands 5 feet 1 inch tall, weighs about 165 pounds, and has gray hair and brown eyes.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension issued the missing person alert on behalf of the Brooklyn Park Police Department, which retains primary investigative authority over the case, according to a post shared on Facebook. When he disappeared, Jimenez-Alvarez was wearing a maroon T-shirt, black shorts, black shoes, and a gray baseball hat, per the CBS Minnesota report. Alerts specify that he was last seen leaving the 2000 block of 73rd Court North, a residential stretch in northern Brooklyn Park, according to a post shared in a local police-monitoring Facebook group.
What Investigators Still Don't Know
Search organizers have not said whether Jimenez-Alvarez needs medical or cognitive assistance, nor have they confirmed whether any neighborhood surveillance footage has captured his bicycle route away from the area. Those gaps leave the specific descriptors — his height, his gray hair, and above all that red-and-black bicycle — as the clearest tools available to residents scanning their own blocks and doorbell cameras for a match.
Police are asking anyone with information on his whereabouts to call 911 or the Hennepin County Dispatch line at 952-258-5321, a number that routes tips and officer responses for the department around the clock, per the City of Brooklyn Park.
How Minnesota Law Shapes the Search
Minnesota law leaves police little discretion in how quickly they respond to reports like this one. Under Minnesota Statute § 299C.53, agencies must accept missing person reports without delay, regardless of a person's age or how long they have been gone, and must enter the case into the FBI's National Crime Information Center database, according to the Golden Valley Police Department. If a case like this one remains open past 30 days, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension protocols require officers to update the file and request biological samples, fingerprints and dental records for NCIC entry within 60 days, per guidance published by the City of St. Paul.
Those statutory timelines exist against a backdrop of steady statewide volume. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety recorded 8,358 missing person reports statewide in 2025, down slightly from 8,599 the year before. Brooklyn Park itself is Minnesota's sixth-largest city, with more than 86,000 residents, and its police department fields roughly 61,000 calls for service annually, according to the City of Brooklyn Park.
A Department Already Stretched by Recent Searches
This is not the department's first missing person search in recent days. Just before officers began looking for Jimenez-Alvarez, Brooklyn Park police had resolved a separate case involving a mother and two young children who had been reported missing earlier in the month, an episode Hoodline previously reported. The department also maintains alternative response teams that pair social workers with public safety officers for welfare checks involving vulnerable residents, a resource built into the city's broader public safety framework.
Separately, Hennepin County court records show a criminal case was filed in November 2025 under the name Carlos Evelio Jimenez-Alvarez, involving an allegation of fourth-degree assault of a peace officer. The dossier does not establish whether this filing involves the same individual now reported missing, and no connection between that case and the current search has been confirmed by police.
