UPDATE: 77-Year-Old Puna Man Returns Home
***Updated 9:21 a.m. Jan. 27.***
The 77-year-old Puna man reported missing last week has been located.
Police said today that Johanned Poche returned home on Friday.
Posted 7:01 p.m. Jan. 24:
Police are asking for the public’s help locating a 77-year-old Puna man who has been reported missing.
Johannen Poche of Hawaiian Beaches was last seen in Pahoa town at 8 a.m. today.
He is described as 5-foot-9 and 150 pounds, with white-silver hair and brown eyes.
Police said Poche walks hunched-over, and was last seen wearing a red, long-sleeved sweater, dark blue sweat pants and a hat.
Anyone with information on Poche is asked to call the police department at 935-3311.