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Help bring home missing elderly couple [updated]

by The AV Times Staff • May 12, 2015

Missing elderly couple
Image courtesy LASD. Click to enlarge.

PALMDALE – Sheriff’s detectives are asking for your help in locating an elderly couple last seen at their son’s residence on the 200 block of Taos Place in Palmdale.

They were last seen around 11 p.m. Monday, May 11, 2015.

Leonard Hagberg is around 5 feet 8 inches tall and 190 pounds with gray hair and blue eyes. He wears glasses. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a blue shirt.

Helen Hagberg is around 5 feet tall and 200 pounds with short, gray hair and brown eyes. She also wears glasses. She was last seen wearing cream-colored capri pants and a pink and white striped shirt.

Sheriff’s officials said the Hagbergs suffer from Alzheimer’s and dementia. Both are easily confused and require medication, authorities said.

They are believed to be driving a black, 2003 Honda Pilot with an Idaho license plate (#2F39495).

Family members are very concerned and are asking for the public’s assistance in bringing the couple home.

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact Sergeant Velasquez or Detective Abraham of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau, Missing Persons Detail, at 323-890-5500.

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UPDATED 5/15/15: Leonard and Helen Hagberg were found unharmed just before 5 p.m. Thursday, May 14, in Ridgecrest, Calif., according to information just released from the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. The Hagbergs are now being driven to Arizona by their son, authorities said. No further information was available.

Filed Under: Palmdale

13 comments for "Help bring home missing elderly couple [updated]"

  1. J says

    May 15, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    STORY UPDATE: MISSING ELDERLY COUPLE FOUND UNHARMED

    Authorities have located the elderly couple who went missing from Palmdale this week.

    Leonard and Helen Hagberg were found unharmed just before 5 p.m. Thursday, May 14, in Ridgecrest, Calif., according to information just released from the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.

    The Hagbergs are now being driven to Arizona by their son, authorities said.

    No further information was immediately available.

    View our previous related story at: https://theavtimes.com/…/help-bring-home-missing-elderly-co…/

  2. daniel says

    May 15, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    This is weird. Glad they are safe. Hope it stays that way.

    • question says

      May 15, 2015 at 3:05 pm

      Daniel… Glad they are safe? Did you read something different, I didn’t find and update on them.

      • Gh says

        May 15, 2015 at 10:11 pm

        It’s at the bottom of this story in bold.

  3. yabba says

    May 14, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    This is suspicious. Who in their right mind would allow parents, etc. to leave a 11 p.m., and knowing they have dementia/alzheimers? Did they really leave on their own? I don’t trust the son at all.
    Could be he wants to collect life insurance benefits, and wonder if police have checked that out.
    I hope they’re alive.

    • wtf says

      May 15, 2015 at 2:04 am

      Genius! Please contact LASD right away.

  4. Pen says

    May 14, 2015 at 2:13 pm

    Yesterday when I read the CHP incident reports Silver Alert, it mentioned that the elderly couple found the keys for the car that were hidden…..

    • Barry Bigtoe says

      May 15, 2015 at 7:31 pm

      Is that report public? I didn’t see it on chp.ca.gov

      • Chill says

        May 15, 2015 at 7:41 pm

        Chil, bro. The peeps are safe. No need to troll for the lawyers. They’ll find their way while they’d bottom feeding.

        • Barry Bigtoe says

          May 15, 2015 at 10:31 pm

          I’m sure the lawyers have all that on speed dial. Don’t break your ankle jumping to conclusions. Sheesh, excuse me for asking a frigging question.

  5. moll flanders says

    May 12, 2015 at 7:32 pm

    This lovely couple suffer from Alzheimer’s and Dementia and they are easily confused. Maybe they shouldn’t be driving!

    • Bertha says

      May 13, 2015 at 8:01 pm

      My thoughts too, why would this son let his parents drive? Some people do not want to bothered with their elderly parents.

      • Eric says

        May 14, 2015 at 2:22 pm

        No self-respecting adult is letting their elderly parents, with Alzheimers, drive away at 11 at night. Especially not if they are driving back to Idaho! The first time I read it, I could pretty much picture it. The two probably woke up in the middle of the night, felt confused, found the keys, and felt it in their best interest to leave. Hope they are found safe soon! I’ll keep an eye out.

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