LAKEPORT, Calif. – Police said Friday that an older Lakeport man who went missing on Thursday has been tracked to the Bay Area, and due to concerns for his safety he’s been entered into the Silver Alert System.

On Thursday, Gilbert Navas, 70, left his home at 10:30 a.m. in a Toyota Tacoma pickup to go to Sutter Lakeside Hospital, but didn’t arrive at the hospital, as Lake County News has reported.

On Friday just after 10 a.m., the Lakeport Police developed information that Navas had rented a vehicle at Enterprise Rent-A-Car in San Francisco on Thursday at 6:25 p.m. and checked into a motel in San Jose at 11:50 p.m.

Officers contacted Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Pacific Motor Inn, and through photographs, positively identified Navas as the person who rented the car and checked into the motel. San Jose Police attempted to contact Gilbert at the motel but found he had already left, according to the Lakeport Police report.

Based on information provided by employees at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Pacific Motor Inn, Navas is looking for his family in the Bay Area and police believe he is disoriented and confused.  
 
Navas is now driving a 2016 four-door Silver Hyundai Sonata with license plate number 7PBU113. His whereabouts on Friday were unknown.
 
Police said Navas and the vehicle have been entered into the Silver Alert System through the California Highway Patrol.
 
Anyone with information about Navas’ whereabouts is asked to contact the Lakeport Police Department at 707-263-5491.