Missing In Maryland: 8 People Have Disappeared

MARYLAND — Multiple people have been reported missing across Maryland in recent weeks, and we are hoping you can help bring them home. Those who are missing range in age from 10 to 64.

Have you seen any of these missing persons? Call 911 or the number listed with the information about the individual.

Mushtaq Qureshi, 54, left for work with a D.C. taxi service at 10 p.m. on Friday, July 12, and did not return home to Laurel. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall and 175 pounds with black hair, brown eyes and a tiger tattoo on his left shoulder. When last seen in the 800 block of 5th Street in Laurel, he was wearing a blue t-shirt, black jogging pants and brown slippers. Call the Laurel Police Department at 301-498-0092, email LPDtips@laurel.md.us anonymously or call anonymous tips in to the tip line at 301-498-7645.

Casey Brightful, 19, was last seen around 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 11. He was walking south on MD 140 in the Finksburg area in Carroll County and is missing from Taneytown. He is described as 6 feet 1 inch tall and 170 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. When he disappeared, he was wearing a red/multicolor Chicago Bulls sweater with black jogging pants, Air Jordan sneakers and a black Maryland flag hat. Call the Maryland State Police, Westminster Barrack, at 410-386-3000.

Robert Hall, 10, was last seen Tuesday, July 9, in the 2500 block of East Madison Street in Baltimore. He was wearing a green shirt with dark green pants and green sneakers. He is described as about 4 feet tall and 130 pounds. Call the Baltimore Police Department's missing persons unit at 443-984-7385.

Joseph Oneal Pleasants, 64, of the 700 block of Fairmont Street NW in Washington, D.C., was reported missing by his family in Silver Spring. Pleasants had been at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center and was last seen in the area of the 100 block of Irving Street NW on Saturday, July 6. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall and about 154 pounds with salt and pepper hair and brown eyes. He is a critically missing person who may need medication. Call the Metropolitan Police Department's Youth and Family Services Division at 202-576-6768.

Tecoy Armstrong, 30, was last seen on Tuesday, July 2, in the 1800 block of North Bond Street in Baltimore wearing a pink shirt with blue shorts. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. Authorities are concerned she may harm herself. Call the Baltimore Police Department's missing persons unit at 443-984-7385.

Palace Kebra Nagast Sonogod, 17, was last seen leaving her home on Maryland Avenue in Rockville on Friday, June 28. She is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 90 pounds with black hair, brown eyes and tattoos on both forearms. Call the Montgomery County Police Special Victims Investigations Division at 240-773-5400.

Amaya Sutton, 14, was last seen Tuesday, May 21, in the 3300 block of Ferndale Avenue in Baltimore. She is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 250 pounds. Call the Baltimore Police Department's missing persons unit at 443-984-7385.

Brandy Winkler, 38, was last seen Saturday, May 18, in Armistead Gardens in northeast Baltimore. She is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall and 118 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. She has pierced ears and a cyst on her left jaw. Call the Baltimore Police Department at 410-396-2444 or Detective Perez at 443-934-5794.