The Silver Alert for Moretz has been canceled. The available account does not establish when it was canceled, where Moretz was found, or the circumstances of the cancellation, so those details remain unknown.
Washington’s alert guidance does not rule out phone notifications: the Washington State Patrol says Silver Alerts may use targeted Wireless Emergency Alerts on a case-by-case basis. That statewide guidance does not show whether a Wireless Emergency Alert was used for Moretz.
Statewide figures offer context, but not an outcome for this case. The Washington State Patrol reported coordinating 77 missing-person alerts in the first 11 months of 2022, including 47 Silver Alerts; it reported 70 successful recoveries across all alert categories, not a Silver Alert-specific recovery rate. Those figures cover one period and do not establish a longer-term trend or explain Moretz’s cancellation.
A separate Washington case illustrates the program’s earlier use, but is not evidence about Moretz. The Courier-Herald reported that a Silver Alert was issued for Bryant Merrick on Sept. 10, 2015, and that Seattle police later located him safe. That individual case and the statewide totals do not establish what happened in the Moretz alert.
