A Silver Alert identifies a last-seen location near South Western Avenue. The California Highway Patrol post includes the alert and tags the Los Angeles Police Department.
The alert identifies South Western Avenue and West 25th Street. The CHP post was published Sept. 17, 2026, but the provided material does not state when CHP was notified. The provided public material contains no recovery or additional search information.
About the alert
The CHP post directs anyone who sees the person to call 911.
The public material provided here does not explain the circumstances of the disappearance.
What triggers a California Silver Alert
A California Highway Patrol bulletin reproduced by the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services provides general information about California alerts.
CHP says it can distribute such alerts through freeway changeable message signs, the Emergency Alert System, Wireless Emergency Alerts and social media. In the case described here, the agency's public post identified a San Pedro location and directed the public to call 911.
Similar Los Angeles County cases
Recent cases show that Silver Alerts can end after a missing person is located, although they do not establish a statewide recovery rate or indicate how the search described here will conclude. MyNewsLA.com reported a Silver Alert for 70-year-old Rutilio De Jesus Duran in Canoga Park on Aug. 26, 2026.
In two other Los Angeles County cases, MyNewsLA.com reported that alerts were deactivated after the missing people were located: 78-year-old Shogo Wakamatsu in North Hollywood on Oct. 18, 2025, and 75-year-old Khan Van Tran in Lakewood on Nov. 20, 2025. Those reports did not provide enough detail to compare the searches directly with the San Pedro case.
The state materials cited here do not provide a recent statewide count of Silver Alerts or a recovery percentage.
Reporting a missing person
For families facing a disappearance, the Los Angeles Police Department says there is no required waiting period before reporting someone missing in California. The public material provided here does not explain the timing of the report.
Anyone who sees the missing person should call 911.
