TROY — Law enforcement officers in Montgomery County are asking for help in locating a missing man.
A Silver Alert was issued Tuesday afternoon for 79-year-old Richard Herbert Schlichting.
He was last seen at 2044 Love Joy Road in Troy wearing gray sweatpants, a long sleeve T-shirt and brown penny loafer shoes, according to a report from the N.C. Center for Missing Persons.
He is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, with medium-length white hair, hazel eyes and weighs around 200 pounds.
He could be driving a 2001 burgundy Ford Ranger with the N.C. license plate number NNK2303. No direction of travel was given.
Schlichting believed to be suffering from dementia or some other cognitive impairment.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is encouraged to call C. Garner with the Montgomery County Sheriff Office at 910-572-1313.
