Tonya Elizabeth Guessford, 50, was last seen in July near the Magistrate's Office on South Third Street in Albemarle. The Stanly County Sheriff's Office has asked the public to help locate her. She was wearing a red and white Duck Commander T-shirt; investigators describe her as 5 feet 9 inches tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes.
The sheriff's office's request for assistance was reported by qcnews.com, which placed the last-known sighting near downtown Albemarle's county courthouse complex.
Description and Last Known Sighting
The clothing and physical description are identifying details included in the public appeal.
Missing-person reports in North Carolina
The North Carolina Center for Missing Persons' 2016 annual report counted 15,804 missing-person reports statewide that year, including 5,229 adult reports. Those annual totals do not, by themselves, show what share of reports remained active at year-end.
Anyone with information about Guessford's whereabouts is asked to call the Stanly County Sheriff's Office at 704-986-3714.
