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MISSING: Brooklyn Mental Patient Michael Giancola
Giancola, 56, disappeared early Tuesday morning from his home at Crown Heights' Institute for Community Living, police say.
Michael Giancola. Photo courtesy of the NYPD
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A 56-year-old man went missing Tuesday from the Institute for Community Living, a mental-health facility on Saint Marks Place in Crown Heights, according to local police.
The missing man, Michael Giancola, was last seen around 8 a.m. Tuesday wearing a teal fleece and khaki shorts "in the vicinity of his residence," the NYPD said in a media alert sent out later that same evening.
Police described Giancola as a white man with a "light complexion, brown eyes and gray hair," standing around 5-feet-10-inches tall and weighing approximately 250 pounds.
Anyone with information on Giancola's whereabouts is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). For Spanish, call 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
Tips can also be submitted by logging onto the Crime stoppers website by by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577.
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