LANCASTER (CNS) – The sheriff’s department today sought the public’s help in locating a 74-year-old man who went missing from his Lancaster home in January.

John Wayne Kolb was last heard from on Jan. 31, when he spoke with out-of-town family, according to Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.

“Mr. Kolb lives on a large lot on the 800 block of West Avenue K in the city of Lancaster and has been known to use a bicycle as transportation,” Navarro-Suarez said.

Kolb is American Indian, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 175 pounds and has brown and gray hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information regarding Kolb’s whereabouts was urged to call the Missing Persons Unit of the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500 to speak with Sgt. Luis Nunez or Detective Tamar Abraham.

Anonymous tips can be submitted through Crime Stoppers by calling 800-222-TIPS.