A Silver Alert covering Los Angeles and Kern counties were issued Thursday for a missing 80-year-old woman
Melitina Youngstrand was last seen around 9:40 a.m. Wednesday near 82nd Street and Jacaranda Avenue in California City in Kern County and could be headed for Los Angeles County, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Youngstrand was described as 5-feet-4-inches tall weighing 140 pounds with white hair and brown eyes. She is believed to be driving a maroon 2006 Ford F-150, with a California license plate of 8B04326.
Anyone with information regarding Youngstrand’s whereabouts was urged to call 9-1-1.
The Silver Alert program was established by the CHP to issue and coordinate alerts involving the unexplained or suspicious disappearances of elderly, developmentally disabled, or cognitively impaired individuals.