Police: Grandmother found safe after PPA tells her to move car

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Wednesday, June 8, 2016
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CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- Police say the grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's who went missing from outside the Philadelphia Park Authority's office has been located.

75-year-old Joyce Laury was last seen at 9th and Filbert streets Monday afternoon.

According to Philadelphia police, Laury was in the backseat of a 2016 Jeep Patriot as her granddaughter was inside the PPA office paying a parking ticket.

Police say Laury was instructed by the PPA to move the vehicle from the taxi zone.

Laury, police say, got into the driver's seat and was last seen driving the Jeep north on Filbert Street.

Police have not said where Laury was found.