Police: Missing Elderly Man Wandered Away From Picnic

Images: Lubin Phipps (Maryland-National Capital Park Police)

The police are asking for the public’s help in finding an 80-year-old man who wandered away from a picnic for senior citizens more than two weeks ago.

Lubin Phipps was last seen at about 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, when he walked away from the picnic at Watkins Regional Park in Upper Marlboro, according to the Prince George’s County Division of the Maryland-National Capital Park Police.

He is described as a black man, 5 feet 6 inches tall, with a thin build (weighing 142 pounds), brown eyes and greyish, slicked-backed hair. Phipps struggles with dementia or memory impairment, the police said, and may appear confused and distressed.

Originally from the Virgin Islands, Phipps speaks with a heavy accent, the police said. In conversation, he will likely refer to the Virgin Islands.

Some of Phipps’ caretakers remember him leaving his residence wearing a blue-patterned, polo-style shirt with dark blue khaki pants and brown sandals.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to call the Maryland-National Capital Park Police Department at 301-459-3232.