Police Seek Man Who Vanished Without His Meds

Police were fanning out around a health care facility in Chatsworth this morning in search of a 62-year-old man who wandered away to buy cigarettes and didn't return, and needs medications to survive, a sergeant said.

"He takes a litany of medications,'' said Sgt. Tim Walter in the LAPD Devonshire Station.

Timothy Norton left the Goldstar Health Care facility in the 21800 block of Craggy View Street at 7 p.m. Sunday, before taking his medication. He was last seen on foot, leaving a mini-mart at Devonshire Street and Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Walter said.

Norton is 6 feet tall, weighs 160 pounds, has a light complexion, and was wearing an orange shirt, the sergeant said.

Anyone who has information about where Norton might be should immediately contact 911, call the Devonshire Station at 818-832-0633 or go to the police command post at the Goldstar Health Care facility on the 21800 block of Craggy View Street in Chatsworth.

-- City News Service