Crime & Safety

Police, Family Searching For Missing Veteran

David Folsom went missing on July 12 near his metropolitan Detroit home.

METRO DETROIT, MI — A metropolitan Detroit military veteran is missing. David Folsom, 54, went missing from his Waterford Township home on July 12. Now the family is asking for help to locate the Army National Guard Commander.

In a Facebook post, Belinda Mirovsky-Folsom said her husband went missing in the early morning hours of July 12. The couple lives in the area of Elizabeth Lake and Cooley Lake Roads. “Please help me by sharing this post and by having a watchful eye out for this well respected military man and wonderful father and husband,” she wrote in the post.

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David Folsom served in the Army National Guard for 20 years. He is described as 6-foot 3-inches in height, weighing approximately 220 pounds with brown eyes and a silver, military-style haircut.

Belinda Mirovsky-Folsom said in the Facebook post that she is working with area law enforcement agencies to find her husband. She told WDIV-TV that David suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He also went missing for about nine hours earlier this month and couldn’t remember where he had gone or when he returned home.

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Anyone with information about David Folsom is asked to call the Waterford Township Police Department at (248) 674-0351.

Photo used with permission of the Folsom family

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