Hospital Identifies Juana Perez, Missing Bronx Woman, After CBS2 Report

YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) --  A Bronx woman's family was frantic after she went missing for four days, but a Yonkers hospital identified her after a CBS2 report Tuesday about her disappearance.

Juana Perez, 68, was located late Tuesday, according to police. CBS2's Meg Baker reported someone at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers identified Perez as a patient after seeing a CBS2 report Tuesday afternoon about her disappearance.

Perez had last been seen leaving her Ogden Avenue home on July 3, police said.

Friday was Perez's 68th birthday, CBS2's Meg Baker reported.

Perez's daughter Aracelis Negro told Baker it was unlike her mother to just disappear.

"We depend on our mother a lot. We need her. Our family, my daughter," said Negro. "We just want the community to come together to try help find my mother."

Surveillance video had shown Perez leaving her home at around 12:30 p.m., two days before her family returned from vacation. She carefully opened her gate, took a right onto Ogden Avenue and headed toward 170th Street, Baker reported.

The woman's son, Rafael Perez, was still concerned Tuesday night. He said his mother has never disappeared before and has no history of memory loss.

"We noticed, like, on and off like maybe keys or something like that, but nothing to this extreme where she would end up in Yonkers from the Bronx," he said.

Juana Perez was not hurt, but was to stay in the hospital overnight for further testing.