Purple Alert Canceled: Delray Beach Man Located

by | Aug 9, 2022 · 5:56 pm | Missing Persons, Delray Beach | 0 comments

MISSING PERSON - Nicholas Gekas - Palm Beach Sheriffs Office
MISSING PERSON - Nicholas Gekas - Palm Beach Sheriffs Office

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Purple Alert Canceled: Delray Beach Man Located

FDLE Canceled Purple Alert For Nicholas Gekas.

Missing Person - Nicholas Gekas - Palm Beach Sheriffs Office

Missing Person – Nicholas Gekas – Palm Beach Sheriff’S Office

UPDATE

FDLE tells Boca Post that the Purple alert has been canceled.

Originally reported by Boca Post

DELRAY BEACH, FL (Boca Post) — The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued a statewide Purple Alert to help locate Nicholas Gekas from Delray Beach.

Nicholas Gekas is described as a 53-year-old white man, bald with brown eyes. Marlow is 6’1″ and weighs about 175 lbs.

FDLE and the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office say that Nicholas Gekas was last seen wearing a light blue dry-fit shirt, grey gym shorts, and black/white/grey Adidas shoes, near the area of 5100 block of Las Verdes Circle in Delray Beach.

Anyone with any information about Nicholas Gekas’s whereabouts, or if see Gekas, you are asked to contact FDLE, PBSO, or call 9-1-1.

As a reminder, Boca Post publishes Purple Alerts as they affect our area. In case you missed it, what is a Purple Alert?

Tags: Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) | Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office | purple alert

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