Last year, close to 7,300 missing person reports were filed with the Metropolitan Police Department.
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March 2025
For nearly two decades now, Glendene Grant has had only memories of her daughter. That’s because Jessica Foster, at the age of 21, went missing in North Las Vegas in March 2006 after coming here for an extended stay.
“Las Vegas is a hotbed for everything,” said Sgt. William Gethoefer, part of Metro’s seven-person Missing Persons Detail. “And that includes, yes, missing person cases. We get a lot of visitors that come here and get reported by their loved ones.”
From 2020 through 2023, the number of cases reported in Las Vegas increased marginally each year, but last year, the figure increased by 10 percent over 2023, according to Metro.
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