The California Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert in Contra Costa County, according to the California Highway Patrol alert bulletin.
The bulletin describes Benjamin as 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, with gray hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing an orange shirt, black sweatpants and white slippers. The intersection is in Antioch, Contra Costa County. The bulletin does not give further circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
What a California Silver Alert indicates
The California Highway Patrol’s Silver Alert criteria cover missing people age 65 or older, as well as people who are developmentally disabled or cognitively impaired. Age or disability alone is not enough: law enforcement must believe the person may be in peril because of factors such as health, disability, environmental conditions or other circumstances. Those statewide criteria explain the alert program; they do not establish what happened in Benjamin’s case.
CHP says it activates alerts on behalf of investigating agencies and reviews incident details and activation criteria with the requesting agency. Silver Alerts are one of six alert types the agency oversees, alongside AMBER, Blue, Feather and Ebony alerts and the Endangered Missing Advisory, according to the state’s missing-alert plan.
Other documented cases offer context, not a forecast
A separate missing-person case in Antioch had a safe resolution: KRON4 reported that on Jan. 8, 2025, Rosalinda Tecson, a missing senior, was located and returned home, according to a subsequent update from Antioch police. That was a different case and does not indicate what will happen in Benjamin’s search.
CHP’s success stories also describe a 78-year-old woman who walked away from a San Bernardino care facility on June 28, 2022. A citizen recognized her after receiving a Wireless Emergency Alert, notified authorities, and the woman was safely returned the same day, CHP reports. It is one example, not an overall measure of how often people are located or evidence of how Benjamin’s case will end.
No update on Benjamin’s status had been issued as of the alert’s publication. Anyone who sees her is asked to call 911.
