Anne Arundel County Police are asking for the public's help finding Sharon Asensio, an 80-year-old woman reported as a critical missing adult after she was last seen in Brooklyn, Maryland, traveling north. She was reportedly driving a white 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee at the time she was spotted.
According to the Anne Arundel County Police Department
, Asensio was last seen travelling north at 7:00 p.m., driving her white 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The notice describes the sighting as happening “earlier today,” on Monday, November 9.
Distinctive Jeep Could Be Key to Finding Her
The department's notice offers a specific identifier for anyone keeping an eye out: the Jeep bears Maryland tag number 2CL6656 and has a University of Virginia sticker affixed to its rear window. Those details are meant to help residents and other drivers in the area recognize the vehicle if they spot it on the road.
No additional information about Asensio's health, the circumstances that led to the alert, or any search efforts beyond the public notice has been released. The department's post does not say whether she was located after the notice went out, and no further updates have been made available.
Maryland’s Silver Alert program has specific criteria; age alone does not qualify someone. The state says an alert generally requires a missing adult to have a cognitive impairment, face a credible threat to their safety, and be entered into the National Crime Information Center. The criteria help distinguish a Silver Alert from a local police missing-person notice; the department’s description of Asensio as a “critical missing adult” does not, by itself, establish that she qualifies for a Silver Alert. Maryland State Police’s Silver Alert criteria spell out those requirements.
How to Report a Sighting
Anne Arundel County has more than one way to distribute public-safety information: its opt-in Alert Anne Arundel system can send notices about missing or endangered people by text, email, phone or app, while Wireless Emergency Alerts are reserved for critical warnings and targeted by officials to a geographic area. The county says not every advisory or incident update goes out as a phone emergency alert. The county’s alert guidance explains the difference between the systems.
Anyone who locates Asensio or her vehicle is asked to contact the Anne Arundel County Police Department's Eastern District at (410) 222-6145 or (410) 222-8610. The department, which posted the alert under its official account, is based in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and is asking the public to report sightings of Asensio or her vehicle.
