A search was underway Sunday for an 87-year-old diabetic man with decreased mental acuity who went missing from Palmdale.
Tomas Pinedo-Gallegos was last seen at 7:22 p.m. Sunday in the 36000 block of Harold 3rd Street, near East Barrel Springs Road, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
He requires medication, sheriff’s officials said.
Pinedo-Gallegos is Hispanic, 5 feet, 9 inches tall, 210 pounds, with blue eyes and white hair, last seen wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans and brown slippers.
Anyone with information should contact Det. M. Perez of the sheriff’s Missing Persons Unit at 323-890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.