{"id":252455,"date":"2026-05-05T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=252455"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:19:01","slug":"athens-police-need-help-finding-missing-76-year-old-steve-sosebee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=252455","title":{"rendered":"Athens police need help finding missing 76-year-old Steve Sosebee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Athens-Clarke County police are asking for your help finding a 76-year-old man who went missing after leaving a local hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> Steve Sosebee was last seen May 2 near Piedmont Athens Regional hospital after he was discharged. He has difficulty walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Important: <\/strong>Police have updated his description. He was last seen wearing a gray shirt, light-colored jeans, boots, and a green hat. An earlier description had him in a dirty white shirt, gray sweatpants, and no shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where He May Be Headed: <\/strong>Police say Sosebee may be trying to get back to his home in the Lexington Road and Robert Hardman Road area of Athens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to Help: <\/strong>Anyone who sees Sosebee or knows where he is should contact Athens-Clarke County police Detective Joshua Ramey by email at Joshua.Ramey@accgov.com or by phone at (762) 400-7257.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens-Clarke County police are asking for your help finding a 76-year-old man who went missing after leaving a local hospital. What&#8217;s Happening: Steve Sosebee was last seen May 2 near Piedmont Athens Regional hospital after he was discharged. He has difficulty walking. What&#8217;s Important: Police have updated his description. He was last seen wearing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":252457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6827],"tags":[22932],"class_list":["post-252455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-missing","tag-steve-sosebee","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}