Elderly Couple Found Safe After Evacuating Ahead Of Hurricane Irma

(Updated 4:23 p.m. Wednesday): SARASOTA, FL — The elderly couple who disappeared after they evacuated from Venice, Florida, during Hurricane Irma were found safe Wednesday afternoon. (For more hurricane news or local news from Florida, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Tampa Patch. Click here to find your local Florida Patch. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Police reported Milan Yezic, 89, and his wife Lucille, 86, were last seen at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday at an Ocala gas station near I-75. They were safely located in Venice around 4 p.m. Wednesday.

The couple was originally headed to Pennsylvania to evacuate, police said. Detectives confirmed their credit card was used at gas stations in both Georgia and more recently, in Wildwood, Florida.

The Yezics did not return to their home on Golf Club Lane for days, and neither have cell phones. Both suffer from varying degrees of dementia, police said.

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The couple was driving a 2004 beige Mercury Grand Marquis with the license plate GESL71. Police describe Milan Yezic as 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing about 180 pounds. Lucille Yezic is 5 feet 4 inches and weighs 175 pounds.

Photo: Sarasota County Sheriff's Office