{"id":197635,"date":"2026-09-05T21:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197635\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T21:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:16:08","slug":"winnipeg-police-issue-silver-alert-for-missing-78-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197635\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police issue Silver Alert for missing 78-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police have issued a Silver Alert for a missing 78-year-old man who hasn&#8217;t been seen since early Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Lakie, 78, was last seen near Wilkes Avenue and Waverley Street around 4 a.m. on Saturday, police said in a Silver Alert notice on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible he may be in the Crestview neighbourhood, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police describe Lakie as five feet eight inches tall, with a medium build, grey hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, black t-shirt, green cargo sweatpants and brown running shoes with beige soles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Person wearing black hat and black shirt and green pants is seen from behind\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788642968_582_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4238805970149253\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Thomas Lakie, 78, was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, black t-shirt, green cargo sweatpants and brown running shoes with beige soles, Winnipeg police said in a Silver Alert notice. (Submitted by Winnipeg Police Service)<\/p>\n<p>Police said he was walking with a limp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Silver Alerts are issued when a vulnerable adult goes missing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Lakie&#8217;s whereabouts should contact the missing persons unit at 204-986-6250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-197635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}