Silver Alert canceled for 77-year-old Phoenix man with dementia
Mar 15, 2019, 10:43 AM | Updated: 1:56 pm
PHOENIX — A Silver Alert was canceled Friday after a 77-year-old man with onset dementia showed up at his relative’s home after being missing for more than 24 hours.
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Ausencio Lopez Rivera was reported missing after being seen at his home near 109th Avenue and Indian School Road around 9 a.m. Thursday.
The alert was canceled around 2 p.m. Friday.
He was described as a 5-foot-3 man with gray hair and brown eyes. He also has a 3-inch scar along his right cheek.
Rivera was last seen wearing a black baseball cap with a logo on it, a black pullover sweater with a hoodie, red shirt, blue jeans and gray New Balance tennis shoes.
Authorities issued another Silver Alert for 83-year-old Roberto Velazquez, who was last seen in the area of 70th and Cambridge avenues around 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
He was described as a 5-foot-3 man with white hair, a full beard and brown eyes. He also has vitiligo, a disorder that causes his skin to appear bleached.
Velazquez also has a medical condition which may cause him to appear confused or disoriented. He was last seen on foot.
