UPDATE: Missing Vineland senior has been located

Trevor Prescott.

UPDATE: Police advised media at 2:05 p.m. Friday the missing man, Trevor Prescott, has been located. Police extend their thanks to the media and the public for their assistance in getting the work out.

JOHN ROBBINS/Bullet News

NIAGARA – Niagara Regional Police are seeking public assistance to help locate a missing Vineland senior.



Investigators say Trevor Prescott, 87, left his residence Thursday afternoon in his 2009 beige Dodge Caliber, Ontario license plates BHCW459.

Prescotte was heading to the Hamilton General Hospital, but never arrived. Police say there were sightings in Hamilton and Burlington.

He was last seen at 11:16 p.m. at the gas station on Appleby Line, in Burlington and has not been seen or heard from since.

He is described as white, five-feet, six-inches tall, with white hair.

He was wearing a blue, bomber-style jacket and grey pants.

Prescott has a heart condition which he is on prescribed medication, but does not always take them and is believed to have the onset of dementia.

Police said in a statement Friday appealing for help there is “great concern for his safety and well being.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact police dispatch at at 905-688-4111 immediately.

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John Robbins

John Robbins, an award-winning multimedia journalist, joined Bullet News as a staff writer in January 2011. He was named editor in April 2013. The veteran reporter worked in Niagara and Fort Erie for more than a decade, using his investigative skills in a wide range of beats, including local politics, health/environment, education, business and tourism. His writing has earned him six Ontario Newspaper Awards Robbins, born and raised in Niagara Falls, studied at Emmanuel Bible College and Brock University before graduating from the Journalism-Print program at Niagara College, where he earned several scholarships and awards. During his 11 years as a reporter at the Niagara Falls Review, Robbins, who was Fort Erie bureau chief from 2002-2006, was instrumental in bringing video and e-reporting skills into daily practice at the newspaper and helped build its web and social media audiences. In 2009, Robbins received an appointment to journalism-print advisory committee at Niagara College. Robbins lives in Ridgeway.