{"id":17123,"date":"2026-02-24T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/17123\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:21:21","slug":"missing-elderly-man-in-new-bern-found-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/17123\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing elderly man in New Bern found safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The New Bern Police Department says an elderly man who was missing yesterday has been found. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police put out an alert overnight for 87-year-old Charles Dewitt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dewitt was last seen yesterday around 11 a.m. in the area of Neuse Boulevard and Health Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UPDATE: At 6:30 this morning, New Bern police said Dewitt was located. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dewitt was traveling to Greenville, and police say he may be in the Vanceboro area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dewitt is 5 feet 8 inches tall, around 150 pounds, with blue eyes and gray hair on the sides of his head and bald on top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was last seen wearing a yellow coat with black stripes on the arm, a multicolored brown\/tan button-down shirt, tan pants and tan shoes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dewitt was also seen using a brown walking cane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say he is driving a 2018 white Kia Sorento with NC license plate HMA-6934. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information regarding Dewitt\u2019s whereabouts is asked to call New Bern police at 252-633-2020. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The New Bern Police Department says an elderly man who was missing yesterday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,11866,11868,11870,11867,11869,107,3086,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-17123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-charles-dewitt","10":"tag-elderly","11":"tag-health-drive","12":"tag-missing-person","13":"tag-neuse-blvd","14":"tag-new-bern","15":"tag-new-bern-police-department","16":"tag-witn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}