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Highway Patrol issues missing senior alert
Posted: 04.28.2011 at 8:28 AM
Kate Lauman

Kate Lauman is the Managing Editor & Live at 5 anchor.

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The Missouri State Highway Patrol along with the Polk County Sheriff’s Department has issued an Endangered SILVER Advisory for a missing elderly man. The advisory was issued early Thursday morning.

Sheriff officials said 71 year old Benny Johnson was last seen at 1952 East 558th Road in Pleasant Hope, Missouri just after midnight Monday.

Authorities said he could be driving a 2005 white Ford F-150 with Arkansas registration number 018407, hauling an unknown make boat.

He's 5 feet 10 inches tall, 168 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. He was last seen wearing a red jacket with a Georgia emblem on the left chest, white shirt and black pants.

Johnson suffers from dementia and bi-polar disorder. If you have any information, you're asked to call 9-1-1 or the Polk County Sheriff's Office at 417-777-9020.

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