LARGO, Fla. – After a week of exhaustive searching by land, air, and sea, the Largo Police Department announced Friday that they are scaling back physical resources at the scene of Petro Kuqo’s disappearance, though the investigation remains fully active.
Kuqo, an 87-year-old man with dementia, vanished from his Clearwater home on December 12. As of Friday, December 19, investigators have determined that if Kuqo were still in the immediate vicinity, the massive multi-agency response would have located him.
“We are confident that based on our investigation, if Petro was in the area, he would have been located,” the department stated in an update. Consequently, operations are transitioning away from having resources directly on the scene…