PORT ANGELES — The police have received many calls from people who think they have seen a developmentally disabled woman who has been missing from Port Angeles since Oct. 10.
But none of them haspanned out, Port Angeles Police Sgt. Glen Roggenbuck said Tuesday.
Jennifer Pimentel, 26, disappeared from The Gateway transit center while waiting for a bus to her home in SeaTac.
Pimentel is mentally about 12 years old, and her family is concerned for her welfare.
People need to keep calling, even if they’re not sure the woman they saw is Pimentel or not, Roggenbuck said.
“Someone’s going to hit the lottery,” Roggenbuck said.
Last seen
Pimentel was dropped off by friends at The Gateway transit center at about noon and purchased a Dungeness Bus Lines ticket to SeaTac.
She was seen at Dairy Queen at 128 E. Railroad Ave. in Port Angeles at about 12.30 p.m. last Monday.
At noon last Tuesday, an identification card belonging to Pimentel was found on U.S. Highway 101 east of Discovery Bay.
It was turned in to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Port Hadlock.
Two people who know Pimentel spotted her Tuesday afternoon and evening with an unknown man at the Peninsula Housing Authority’s Mount Angeles View neighborhood and in the 700 block of Lopez Street.
They didn’t know she was missing at the time, he said.
The man is described as being between 6 feet 2 inches and 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing about 300 pounds, with short hair, possibly blond.
On Friday, the man who turned in the card to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office came forward and showed police where he found it. Pimentel’s Safeway card and food stamp card were found nearby.
Former PA resident
Pimentel is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 126 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes and was wearing a red and white jacket.
She is a former Port Angeles resident who moved to SeaTac about a year ago.
She is well-known in town and has family in both the Port Angeles and SeaTac areas, said her stepmother, Tammy Pimentel, who lives in Port Angeles.
The family of the missing woman said she had a cellphone but that it has been turned off or is otherwise not operational.
Anyone who has seen the missing woman or has information on her whereabouts or her social circles should immediately phone the Port Angeles Police Department at 360-452-4545.
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Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-417-3535 or at arwyn.rice@peninsuladailynews.com.
