SAFE Alert canceled after missing 75-year-old Gilbert man located

PHOENIX — Authorities canceled a SAFE Alert on Sunday for a missing 75-year-old man from Gilbert just hours after it was issued.

When the alert was issued by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Prentice Mc Cray, Jr. had last been seen driving a 2018 white Ford Edge with the Arizona license plate “V0A6LD” near Guadalupe and Power roads in Gilbert on Saturday around 4 p.m.

According to the Gilbert Police Department, Mc Cray was located around 9:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Mc Cray is described as 6-foot-1 and 270 pounds. He has gray hair and brown eyes.

He was last seen wearing a black shirt with blue pants and blue shoes.

He suffers from a medical condition which may cause him to become disoriented or confused.

SAFE Alerts have replaced Silver Alerts in Arizona as way to spread the word about missing persons who are 65 and older and missing persons who have dementia or developmental/cognitive disabilities.

Related

Arizona's Silver Alert system is being replaced by SAFE AlertsArizona Turquoise Alert system created to help authorities locate certain missing peopleTruck driver sentenced after undocumented migrant he was smuggling died in Tucson crashArizona man sentenced to more than 7 years for killing relative during fist fightTeen sentenced to 14 years in prison for deadly 2025 road rage shootingArizona halts Salt River wild horse removals, orders genetic study