Crime & Safety
UPDATE: Silver Alert Canceled for Ellicott City Couple
Police said Michael and Ruth Berzonsky were located.

UPDATE — The Howard County Police Department reported early Sunday morning that the couple missing from Ellicott City has been found. The octogenarians were unharmed, according to police.
ELLICOTT CITY, MD — Authorities are asking for help finding an Ellicott City couple in their 80s who left home Saturday morning and have not returned.
Michael John Berzonsky, 83, and Ruth Hanna Berzonsky, 82, were believed to be in a burgundy 2006 Lincoln Zephyr with Maryland license plate 1CH7091, according to the Howard County Police Department.
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They left home in the 3000 block of North Ridge Road in Ellicott City after 10 a.m. Saturday and were not back by the afternoon, when their family said they were anticipated to return, police reported.
Officials issued a silver alert Saturday, concerned about potential health issues due to the ages of the missing.
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Authorities said the couple may be in Glenwood or Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where they previously lived.
Michael Berzonsky was described as a bald white man who with blue eyes who is 5'2" and 210 pounds.
Ruth Berzonsky is a white-haired white woman with blue eyes who is 4'11" tall and 130 pounds, police said.
Anyone with information about Michael John and Ruth Hanna Berzonsky is asked to call 911.
Photographs courtesy of the Howard County Police Department.
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