The Collier County Sheriff's Office is looking for a 41 year old man last seen on foot on Crosspointe Drive near Immokalee Road and US 41 on Friday morning, and no update has been published in the day and a half since the appeal went out

The Collier County Sheriff's Office is asking for help finding a 41 year old man last seen on foot in North Naples on Friday morning.

Michael Paul Gianino was last seen at about twenty past ten on Crosspointe Drive, in the area of Immokalee Road and US 41 North, according to the sheriff's office as reported by WINK News on Saturday evening.

What the sheriff's office has released

The office describes him as 5 feet 8 inches tall and 170 pounds, with short brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black T shirt, black shorts and gym shoes.

Anyone who knows where he is is asked to call the sheriff's office on 239-252-9300.

That he was on foot is the detail that shapes the search. Somebody walking does not cover ground the way a vehicle does, so the useful area is the immediate one, the streets around Crosspointe Drive and the stretch of Immokalee Road and US 41 either side of it.

How old the appeal is

The timing is worth reading carefully, because it is the part a reader is most likely to get wrong.

The sighting was Friday morning. The appeal was published on Saturday evening, roughly a day and a half after it. By Sunday morning the appeal itself is about fourteen hours old.

No resolution has been published

This desk checked for a found safe notice before publishing this and found none.

The sheriff's office website carries no release on the case either way. Its newsroom page and its ongoing investigations page were both read on Sunday morning and neither mentions him, and the agency puts appeals of this kind out through social channels this desk does not read.

Neither of the two newsrooms covering Collier County has published a resolution. Every item in the WINK news feed was checked and the only found safe notice in it concerns an unrelated missing teenager in Jacksonville. The Gulf Coast News archive carries no article about this case at all.

None of that amounts to certainty that he is still missing. An agency will often post an update to a social feed and nowhere else. A notice saying he has been found is more current than this page, and this page should be read as the appeal standing rather than as a fact about where he is now.

Nothing here is an accusation

He is not wanted, and the sheriff's office has stated no crime.

His name, age, description and last known location appear here for one reason, which is that the agency published them itself and asked the public to circulate them. That is what the appeal is for, and passing it on is the only thing it asks of anyone.

Anyone who thinks they have seen him should call the sheriff's office rather than a newsroom. The office is the only place that can act on a sighting, and the only place that can close the appeal when it is over.