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PUBLIC SAFETY / FOUND SAFE

Missing Jacksonville Woman Found Safe: Elisha Watson, 28, Located After a Monday Search, Sheriff's Office Says

Elisha Watson, the 28-year-old Jacksonville woman last seen early Monday on Dunns Lake Drive near Pulaski Road, has been found safe, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said. The Sheriff's Office had believed she might be in danger because of a traumatic brain injury, and asked the public for help finding her on Monday.

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Missing Jacksonville Woman Found Safe: Elisha Watson, 28, Located After a Monday Search, Sheriff's Office Says (Jacksonville Watch News)

The search ended the way every search hopes to end. Elisha Watson, 28, has been found safe, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said in the report published by News4JAX (WJXT) on Monday afternoon and read by the Local Desk this run.

Watson had last been seen early Monday, November 2, at about 5:20 a.m. on Dunns Lake Drive near Pulaski Road, according to the Sheriff's Office alert carried in the reporting this run. She is 5-foot-10 and 200 pounds with brown eyes and black hair, and was last seen wearing a dark gray jacket, dark blue and light blue striped leggings, and black flats, the alert said.

The reason the search carried urgency was medical: Watson has a traumatic brain injury, and the Sheriff's Office believed she may be in danger due to her condition, the alert said. The office asked anyone with information to call 904-630-0500 - the number that, by Monday afternoon, was no longer needed for her.

The reports read this run do not say where Watson was located or by whom, and this story does not invent those details. What officials confirmed is the ending: a missing, endangered Jacksonville woman was found safe on the same day she was reported missing. The name and description are published here exactly as the Sheriff's Office released them in its own public alert.

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