Man Goes Missing After Leaving Rehabilitation Center  

A family is pleading for assistance in locating their loved one who went missing after he left the Jacob’s Farm Rehabilitation Facility in Corozal district. Fifty-year-old James Young was last seen at the facility in Patchakan Village around midday on May sixth, where he had been receiving holistic treatment for substance abuse issues. As persons seeking treatment at the facility can discharge themselves, Young simply left the grounds. According to his family, he has a history of mental illness so they are asking that members of the public refrain from harming him and instead report him to the nearest police station so that he may be reunited with his family. We spoke with Young’s nephew, who provided some more details on the situation.

 

Kenroy Young, Nephew of Missing James Young

“From since last week, Monday, my family and the police department and staff members and some of the Men who live at the facility in Patchakan Village at Jacob’s farm. We have all been intensifying our searches over the past few days this weekend. We did a more intensive search and all in Corozal and Orange Walk and we have turned up nothing. But every day my family members are in Corozal. We go to Orange Walk, we go to the villages in between.  There were people saying that they received, we received tips of people seeing him in Corozal town upon the family’s arrival to these locations, it turned out not to be him. I don’t know basically what more to see about him being gone this long because this is not him. Even through all his years of mental illness, he has never done something like this. So I’m just appealing to the Belizean public. If you see him to please call the numbers that are on the bottom of the flyers there for our family members, or you call the nearest police station in the area where you are, because right now we’re at an impasse as to where he is. Because if he was coming to Belize City, because he is from Belize City, from, he used to live on Wagner’s Lane in Belize City, known as Jump Street. And it’s our consensus, if he was leaving from there to come to Belize City, he should be here by now. He’s 50 years old. He’s dark. He’s of dark complexion. He has dark colored eyes. He’s six feet, two inches tall. He wears about one hundred thirty to one hundred forty pounds. And he was last seen wearing a dark blue t-shirt and a dark blue long pants.”