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NYPD needs help locating 81-year-old Woodside man

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June 20, 2017 Staff Report

The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in locating an 81-year-old Woodside man who has gone missing.

Police said that Gabriel Rodriguez, who lives at 59-16 Woodside Avenue, was reported missing this morning, June 20.

Rodriguez is described as Hispanic, approximately 5’7″ tall, 170 lbs., with a heavy build, brown eyes and a white beard and was last seen wearing a white sombrero, black pants, blue button up shirt, black shoes and a gray sweat shirt. The police did not say when he was last seen.

Anyone with information in regards to the missing is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)

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I know where he is. He’s dozing off in that laundromat on Skillman. He’s always there.

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