{"id":11876,"date":"2025-12-02T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=11876"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:26:14","slug":"community-turns-out-to-search-for-71-year-old-doctor-whos-been-missing-for-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=11876","title":{"rendered":"Community turns out to search for 71-year-old doctor who&#8217;s been missing for five days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cletus Iwuagwu\u00a0was last seen around 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the Stone Oak area in Springfield Township.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\nHOLLAND, Ohio \u2014 Loved ones and community members spent Sunday searching for a 71-year-old doctor who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtol.com\/article\/news\/local\/missing-search-doctor-lucas-county-ohio\/512-47986d82-dbac-41e0-9e4a-fe1572ed869d\">missing\u00a0<\/a>since Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\nDr. Cletus Iwuagwu\u00a0was last seen around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday in the Stone Oak area in Springfield Township. Police say he left his home on foot and never returned. He is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall and about 180 pounds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>Despite multiple searches by police using drones and K-9 teams, no trace of Iwuagwu has been found.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>On Sunday, Iwuagwu\u2019s daughters joined dozens of volunteers across the Stone Oak community to search the area where he was last spotted.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>\u201cHe is a community man. He has dedicated his life to taking care of others. It&#8217;s only right that we try and find him and bring him home,\u201d said Siti Dotson-Chambers, a community member who helped organize the search.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>Dotson-Chambers said she reached out to Iwuagwu\u2019s daughter after seeing posts online about his disappearance. A call for volunteers on Facebook brought a large turnout.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t know what direction he went in. It looked as if he didn&#8217;t leave in the car. At this point in time, we don&#8217;t have a lot of answers. We just want to find him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>Iwuagwu\u2019s oldest daughter, Kanisha Byers-Smith, urged the public to remain alert.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>\u201cPlease keep your eyes open. If you see anything, if you hear anything, please reach out to myself, any of my sisters, my husband. We are active on Facebook,\u201d said Byers-Smith.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>She added that while her father\u2019s disappearance has been overwhelming, the community\u2019s support has offered hope.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>\u201cOur father is active in the community. He takes care and loves his patients. He&#8217;s taken care of a whole village his entire life. So to have a village show up for him just means the world to us. We thank everyone from the bottom of our hearts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>Police ask anyone with information about Iwuagwu\u2019s whereabouts to contact local Lucas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 419-213-4900.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtol.com\/article\/news\/local\/community-turns-out-to-search-for-71-year-old-doctor-whos-been-missing-for-five-days\/512-3bdae204-0cfc-47ef-bc2a-6ef9e833eeb8\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Cletus Iwuagwu\u00a0was last seen around 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the Stone Oak area in Springfield Township. HOLLAND, Ohio \u2014 Loved ones and community members spent Sunday searching for a 71-year-old doctor who has been missing\u00a0since Tuesday. Dr. Cletus Iwuagwu\u00a0was last seen around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday in the Stone Oak area in Springfield Township. &#8230; <a title=\"Community turns out to search for 71-year-old doctor who&#8217;s been missing for five days\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=11876\" aria-label=\"Read more about Community turns out to search for 71-year-old doctor who&#8217;s been missing for five days\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Community-turns-out-to-search-for-71-year-old-doctor-whos-been.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11878,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions\/11878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}