Police in Bangor, Maine, are looking for a 37-year-old man who is missing from a psychiatric center in the city.
The Bangor Police Department issued a Silver Alert on Monday for Graham Lacher, of Norridgewock. Lacher was last seen around 4:40 p.m. Monday walking away from the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, located on State Street in Bangor.
According to police, Lacher, who suffers from mental illness and tends to avoid people, was a voluntary patient but is now considered involuntary.
Police dogs were used to try to track Lacher, but the search ended in the area of Eastern Maine Community College.
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Lacher is 5’11” tall and weighs about 265 pounds. He has brown hair, blue eyes, long brown hair, a long beard, and glasses. Lacher was last seen wearing a gray jacket, gray/green Carhartt pants and an orange knit hat, police said.
Anyone who sees Lacher or has information on his whereabouts should call the Bangor Police Department at 207-942-8211.