Man with Alzheimer's missing from NW Indiana

September 6, 2013 (HAMMOND, Ind.) (WLS) -- The Porter County Sheriff's Department is asking for help in locating an 80-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease.

Frank Bush, Jr. was last seen around 10:30 a.m. Friday leaving his residence in Chesterton, Ind. in a gray 1998 Mercury Marquis 4-door sedan. The vehicle has Indiana plates with the number 279MEW.

Bush was last seen wearing a black button-up shirt, blue jeans, a black hat and glasses. It is believed that Bush was detoured from his usual route by construction.

According to police, Bush's vehicle was involved in a crash at a gas station in Hammond, Indiana at 5 p.m. Friday night and fled northbound on Calumet Avenue.

Anyone with information on Bush's whereabouts is asked to call police or the Porter County Sheriff's Department, 219-477-3170.

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