Missing Largo man, 81, found safe on Alligator Alley

Update: Florida Highway Patrol troopers on Sunday found Oliphant inside his van in the eastbound lanes of Alligator Alley. Authorities said he was in good health and family members were scheduled to pick him up.

LARGO -- Police are asking for the public's help in finding an 81-year-old man with Alzheimer's who went missing today.

Charles Whitney Oliphant left a residence at 1150 8th Ave. SW in Largo in a blue 1999 Chrysler Town & Country van with the tag number H35UYX.

Oliphant is described as a white man about five-foot-eleven to 6 feet tall, with fair skin and gray thinning hair. He was last seen wearing dark gray shorts with a dark, button-up short sleeve shirt. He may be wearing prescription glasses.

If anyone has any information reference this case, please contact the Largo Police Department at (727) 587-5730.

--Stephanie Garry, Times Staff Writer