March 31, 2007, 8:31 AM
An officer pulled over a beige minivan on Pershing; it had no plates. The officer asked for ID. The driver, a Westmont man, age 34, seemed very confused and disoriented. A LEADS name check showed he was a missing person from Westmont with a caution: paranoid schizophrenic, off his medications. Police contacted the man’s social worker, who said the patient had been released from the MacNeal Hospital psychiatric unit a couple of days ago but had not returned for his appointment and so was reported missing. The man was taken to the MacNeal emergency room.
