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Leonard Duguay, 83, left his estate in Silverado Canyon on the morning of June 13 to consume morning meal at a regional restaurant.
He has actually not been seen since.
His worried son and daughter said Tuesday that their father has actually lately been forgetful and gotten lost, regularly driving for several miles and hrs looking for his home.
They chance the public assists delivering your man home.
“He could be across the street, or he could be in Northern California,” his daughter Ghislaine Joiner said at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s headquarters in Santa Ana.
Ever because he didn’t get hold of estate and his phone went dead, Joiner and her brother, J.P. Duguay, have actually been searching for leads pointing to their father. They’ve handed out fliers, started teams on Facebook and place the word out to neighbors in Silverado and Modjeska canyons.
Investigators said Duguay’s vehicle – a silver 2001 Honda Accord – was recorded on a patrol car’s license-platter reader driving on southbound Pacific Coast Highway near Aliso Creek Road in Laguna Beach the afternoon he was last seen. They have actually checked hospitals and others places.
Six weeks ago, Duguay drove off and got lost. He was located in Fontana.
“He invested the night in his car,” the son said. “A lady at a bistro enjoyed something wrong along with your man and called [us] for him.”
Joiner is worried regarding her father’s good health due to the heat wave.
“Individuals his age ought to be inside,” she said.
Duguay’s son J.P. lives along with your man and said his father has actually a everyday routine. He has actually morning meal at a handful of restaurants, steers about town listening to music, sometimes checking out people, and goes home. He doesn’t usage bank cards and his cell phone doesn’t appear to be working, sheriff’s Investigator Jay Christian said.
Statewide alerts have actually gone out and it does not look adore he’s crossed any kind of borders.
Duguay has actually not yet been diagnosed along with dementia and doesn’t take any kind of medicine, his daughter said. His car’s license platter number is 4TTX078.
His youngsters claim Duguay is not afraid to be on his own and doesn’t adore to ask for help; he could not understand he’s considered lost. He was last seen using a red cap, a tan, long-sleeved shirt, a khaki jacket and black pants. He speaks along with a French Candadian accent.
Anyone along with post is asked to call the Orange County Sheriff’s Department at 714-647-7000 or his daughter Ghislaine Joiner at 949-338-4007.
Contact the writer: 714-796-7865 or afausto@ocregister.com