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O.C. Authorities Ask for Help in Finding Missing Elderly Couple With ‘Cognitive Issues’

The search continued Sunday for a missing elderly couple who suffer from “cognitive issues” and were last known to be at their Laguna Woods home on Friday morning, authorities said.

Authorities released a photo of Carl and Theresa Tarantino, a Laguna Woods couple who have been missing since Friday, Dec. 19, 2014. (Credit: Family photo)

Carl and Theresa Tarantino are believed to have driven away from their residence in their car, a purple-black four-door 1998 Honda Accord with license plate No. 5GMB136, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Saturday.

The married couple do not own cellphones, sheriff’s officials said.

Carl Tarantino is described as white, 83 years old, 5 feet 4 inches tall, 140 pounds, bald, with blue eyes, and possibly wearing a green checkered shirt or green sweater.

No description of Theresa Tarantino was given. However, a photo of the couple was released.

Anyone with information about their whereabouts is asked to call the Sheriff’s Department at 714-647-7000 or 714-647-7055.