Pasco Sheriff Locates Missing Spring Hill Woman Lawana Yochim, Found Safe

Pasco Sheriff’s Office confirmed on its news page (March 3, 2026) that "Update: Yochim was found and is safe." Deputies had launched a search after 74-year-old Lawana Yochim was reported last seen about 10 a.m. on March 3 in the St. Paul Dr. area of Spring Hill, Hernando County.

The original alert described Yochim as 5'6", around 175 pounds, with blonde/gray hair and blue eyes. Law enforcement and social posts noted she may have been driving a 2016 silver Nissan Versa; the initial notice listed a Florida tag beginning "CN" but the plate number in that post was cut off and remains incomplete in available materials.

Pasco Sheriff circulated the missing-person notice across its official channels. The department’s news feed dated March 3, 2026 carried the update that Yochim was located and safe, and the same outcome appeared on the Pasco Sheriff Facebook post that had earlier combined the search notice and the later "found" update. A brief post on X also reflected the initial search language and physical description before the find was posted to the news page.

The Yochim post appeared amid several other items on the Pasco Sheriff feed that week, including a shooting investigation in the Ashen Ave. area of New Port Richey where a suspect was later located, and missing-person posts for Diego Quinteros, Jailah Danella, and John Malley. The feed also contained a Watergrass Elementary School alert that said deputies quickly located a student after the school temporarily activated its Active Threat Plan. Those adjacent posts illustrate the multiple public-safety items the department was managing at the time the Yochim alert was posted.

Pasco Sheriff’s public update did not specify where or when Yochim was found, whether she required medical attention, or whether the 2016 Nissan Versa was recovered. The initial alert’s partial plate information - "FL tag CN" - remains unverifiable in the materials released by the department. Pasco Sheriff listed app download and social follow prompts alongside the news item, indicating the department used multiple digital channels to distribute both the missing-person notice and the subsequent locate announcement.

As of the March 3, 2026 news post, Pasco Sheriff’s official statement to the public was limited to the single-line update that Yochim was located and safe; the department has not provided further public details about the circumstances of her disappearance or recovery.