Silver Alert issued for missing Humboldt man, later found safe
CHP ended the Silver Alert for 69-year-old Jon Sylvia after he was found safe. He had last been seen on an eastern Humboldt logging road with a gray Kawasaki motorcycle.
California Highway Patrol deactivated a Silver Alert for Jon Sylvia on Monday after the 69-year-old Humboldt County man was located safe, ending a two-day search that spread across four North Coast counties.
Sylvia was last seen at about 8 p.m. June 27 on an unknown logging road in eastern Humboldt County. The alert was expanded to Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino and Del Norte counties to ask the public for help finding him.
Sylvia is 5-foot-8 and 190 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a motorcycle jacket, blue jeans, gloves and a motorcycle helmet, and was riding a gray 2025 Kawasaki KLX motorcycle with California license plate 26F6696.
California’s Silver Alert system applies to missing people age 65 or older, or to people who are developmentally or cognitively impaired, when law enforcement believes they are at risk and has exhausted local resources. The program became law in 2012 through Senate Bill 1047.
The California Highway Patrol serves as the state coordinator for missing-person alerts through its Emergency Notification and Tactical Alert Center in Sacramento, which operates around the clock. Silver Alerts are issued regionally, not statewide, so the warning reaches the counties most likely to help locate the missing person.
If a Silver Alert is active and someone has information, call 911 immediately.
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