Help Police Find 83-Year-Old Man Suffering From Alzheimer’s

CHRISTIANSTED — Police are asking for your help to find an 83-year-old St. Croix man suffering from dementia.

Rawleigh A. Forbes was reported missing at about 4:45 p.m. today, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Forbes’ wife said that her husband was last seen at their residence in Golden Rock 1E Community, just above McDonald’s Restaurant on Miracle Mile, according to the VIPD.

MISSING MAN: Rawleigh A. Forbes, 83, of Golden Rock on St. Croix.

Forbes is a black man with a grey beard and a low haircut. He stands 6-feet, 2-inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds.

The missing man was last seen wearing, grey sweatpants, white t-shirt, and black sneakers. He has a urine bag on his right side. He suffers from high blood pressure, is a diabetic, with Alzheimer’s. Disease.

“Mr. Forbes Last was seen walking west on North Side Road passing Five Corners, La Grande Princesse, Christiansted,” VIPD Communications Director Glen Dratte said.

If you see Rawleigh A. Forbes, please call 911,  or the Ancilmo Marshall Command Police Station at 340-773-2530 immediately.  

John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.