{"id":32466,"date":"2012-12-08T07:12:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T12:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=32466"},"modified":"2012-12-08T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T12:12:06","slug":"search-continues-for-area-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/12\/08\/search-continues-for-area-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"Search continues for area businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Information submitted<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIMA &#8212; The family of Dominic Fricano is still seeking information on the whereabouts of the Lima businessman more than a week after his disappearance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32467\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Fricano-photo-layout-12-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32467\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Fricano-photo-layout-12-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominic Fricano with a beard in the most recent photo of him and Fricano without the beard. (photos submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fricano, owner of Viva Maria, a pizzeria in the Lima Mall, has been missing since approximately 11 a.m. November 30, when he left the mall to make a store deposit, but never made it to the bank. Fricano, 55, who came to the United States from Italy as a teenager and owns Viva Maria with his wife, Susan, was driving a white 2004 Chevrolet express van with license plate number FFW 1301. The van had a silver-colored rack on top and Christmas lights in the back window. Neither he nor the van has been seen since November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Fricano is described as 5 feet, 11 inches in height, weighing approximately 250 pounds. He has brown eyes, a beard and mustache (see photo at left) and black hair, with touches of gray in it.<\/p>\n<p>His wife said she feels her husband is not the type to just leave without a note or something left behind. Law enforcement officers were able to get a GPS reading on Fricano\u2019s cell phone in Delphos at approximately 11:27 a.m. on November 30 before the phone was turned off.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to call the Allen County Sheriff\u2019s Department at 419.227.3535.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information submitted LIMA &#8212; The family of Dominic Fricano is still seeking information on the whereabouts of the Lima businessman more than a week after his disappearance. Fricano, owner of Viva Maria, a pizzeria in the Lima Mall, has been missing since approximately 11 a.m. November 30, when he left the mall to make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 01:02:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}