Lots more info here, including the car being a 2020 Lexus UX :
$10,000 award for safe return of missing Phoenix man Ben Anderson
“Anderson, who was born and raised in Glendale, was supposed to have breakfast with DS, his friend of 24 years, on the morning of December 31.
Anderson called DS around 8 a.m. to cancel, citing fatigue. This wasn't "unusual," DS said, because Anderson had been up in northern Arizona visiting friends and had driven a lot. Approximately two minutes later, DS texted him about an issue related to his work as an executive concierge manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Anderson replied that it had been resolved.
DS told The Arizona Republic that was the last time he talked to Anderson.
Around 6 p.m., DS received a call from Anderson's aunt, Suzanne, saying she hadn't heard from him. He said that he would go over to his apartment. DS tried texting his friend, but the messages were not being shown as delivered, indicating Anderson's phone was off. As he was leaving, Anderson's other friend, Susan, called DS saying that Anderson was not responding to her calls and that they went straight to voicemail.
When DS arrived at Anderson's apartment, much was amiss.
His lights were on, his car was gone, there was money strewn on the counter, and his credit cards were in a little bowl next to the front door. Anderson was not there.
The normally tidy Anderson had a wet towel on his bed, which was unmade, and there were some clothes on the floor in the kitchen.
DS started making phone calls but no one had heard from him.
Another sign something was awry: DS guessed Anderson's password to his 'Find My Phone' app on Apple, and the last time it showed a location was at Anderson's apartment before 9 a.m. on December 31.
"He never turned his phone off so the fact that his phone hasn’t been pinged since and isn’t broadcasting any signals since then is highly unusual," DS told The Arizona Republic.”
Read the rest at the link—the friends, NOT Phoenix PD, tracked down his car and found it! They notified law enforcement, and as they did not respond until later, chased the trio who stole it until it became too dangerous to continue. They determined where the car was later abandoned, notified LE again, and the cops didn’t show up until the car had been torched and left in a known “drug location” (Phoenix PD’s words, not mine). I’m so impressed by the lengths his friends have gone to to attempt to find Ben—way beyond the call of duty, and way way way more committed to finding him than Phoenix PD has been.
IMO, and I hope I’m wrong, but: This is giving me very strong Alan White vibes.