Mohammad Ala
Description:
- Age: 71
- Race: Other - Middle Eastern
- Gender: Male
- Height: 5' 8"
- Weight: 173 lbs
- Hair Color: Gray or Partially Gray
- Eye Color: Green
- Clothing & Personal Items: Straw Hat, Gray Shirt, Denim Blue Jeans
- Transportation: Gold 2006 Toyota Avalon with the California license plate number 5TKD181
Mohammad, 71, was last traced at 9:24 a.m. on August 15th, 2023 when his vehicle, a gold 2006 Toyota Avalon with the license plate: 5TKD181, was caught on camera driving on Firestone Boulevard at the 605 Freeway in Downey, California.
The camera did not see who was driving.
The day before, he missed a freeway exit while driving home from his brother’s house in Long Beach. He was late arriving back to Laguna, so his sister Mina called him on Aug. 14, at 4:30 p.m. He said he was lost but had regrouped and was on his way.
He never arrived. When Mina called him again his cellphone was dead.
Later, she would learn from police that before his cellphone died, it pinged towers near Brookhurst Street in Fountain Valley, then at 8 p.m. in Anaheim.
Mohammad is an award-winning documentary film producer and retired professor who taught at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Southern California, and California State University, Los Angeles.
Investigators
Agency Name: Laguna Beach Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Ryan Radel, Detective
Agency Phone Number: 949-497-0701
Agency Case Number: 23-02291
Sources:
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Mohammad Ala – The Charley Project
The mysterious disappearance of Mohammad Ala - underlaguna.com
