{"id":422082,"date":"2025-12-03T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/422082\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:40:13","slug":"safe-alert-canceled-after-phoenix-man-73-returns-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/422082\/","title":{"rendered":"SAFE Alert canceled after Phoenix man, 73, returns home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Authorities canceled a SAFE Alert for a missing 73-year-old Phoenix man on Wednesday after he returned home on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Lee Jackson was safe and unharmed, according to the Phoenix Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson had last been seen near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/J6phhS3B8wjvpRix7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16th Street and Roeser Road<\/a> on Nov. 16, prompting a SAFE Alert to be activated on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He is described as 5 feet, 11 inches tall and 200 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson has a medical condition that can cause him to become lost or easily confused.<\/p>\n<p>SAFE Alerts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/safe-alert-silver-alert-arizona\/5754635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have replaced Silver Alerts<\/a> in Arizona as a way to spread the word about missing persons who are 65 and older and missing persons who have dementia or developmental\/cognitive disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>This is an updated version of a story originally published on Dec. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KTAR923\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @KTAR923<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/safe-alert-melvin-lee-jackson\/5785498\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Authorities canceled a SAFE Alert for a missing 73-year-old Phoenix man on Wednesday after he returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[7155,5229,5643,1587,316,1589,7154,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-422082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-92-3-ktar","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-and-arizona-breaking-news-and-news-headlines-home","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115656394946459187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}