Identification card found for woman missing from Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Police are seeking a man who turned in an identification card belonging to Jenn­ifer Pimentel, a 26-year-old developmentally disabled woman who has been missing since Monday.

The card was turned in Tuesday afternoon as lost property at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Port Hadlock by a man wearing road-crew-type clothing, said Brian Smith, Port Angeles deputy police chief, on Thursday.

The unidentified man told the receptionist he had found it in a roadside ditch, Smith said.

Smith said law enforcement officers are looking for that good Samaritan to get more information about exactly where the card was found.

Smith said that at the time, it seemed no different than any other found property, so no one asked his name or got more information about where he had found the card.

They later realized the card belonged to the missing woman.

Seeking Samaritan

Authorities are hoping the man who found the card will step forward with more information on where and how he found it, Smith said.

The man is urged to phone the Port Angeles Police Department at 360-452-4545 or the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office at 360-385-3831.

Pimentel, who is mentally about 12 years old, was last seen at Dairy Queen at 128 E. Railroad Ave. in Port Angeles at about 12.30 p.m. Monday.

She 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.

Pimentel had been dropped off by friends at The Gateway transit center and had purchased a Dungeness Bus Lines ticket to SeaTac.

She never got on the bus, according to the Port Angeles Police Department.

Anyone who has seen Pimentel or has information on her whereabouts should immediately phone the Port Angeles Police Department at 360-452-4545.

Pimentel 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.

The missing woman was reported to be in the company of a person who police believe to have been staying at the Street Outreach Shelter, 520 E. First St.

The missing woman’s stepmother said she had a cellphone with her but that it has been turned off or is otherwise not operational.

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Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-417-3535 or at arwyn.rice@peninsuladailynews.com

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