Officers are asking for the community’s help searching for a 68-year-old man with diagnosed dementia who was last seen Saturday afternoon in Signal Hill.

The Signal Hill Police Department describes William Harville as a Black man who stands 5 feet and 8 inches tall, weighs about 162 pounds, and has gray hair and blue eyes.

He was reportedly last seen around 2 p.m. with a known associate leaving the Courtyard Care Center Assisted Living facility located at 1880 Dawson Ave.

The department says Harville was wearing a brown beanie, a blue long-sleeve shirt, brown sweatpants and sunglasses.

Officers did not immediately provide any details as to how Harville went missing, or if the known associate provided any further information.

Police ask anyone who may have seen Harville or have any information regarding his whereabouts to call the Signal Hill Police Department at 562-989-7200.

Texas officials took another step Tuesday morning toward fulfilling their promise of continuing construction of the southern border wall, after purchasing a 1,400-acre ranch along the Rio Grande in a critical region identified by officials as a hotspot for human trafficking, as well as weapons and drug smuggling.

“It is my promise to all Texans that as land commissioner, I will do everything in my power to stop the pain and suffering that has been happening on this property,” Dawn Buckingham said during a press conference with other officials Tuesday. “The previous owner would not allow law enforcement on this ranch.”

Officials will construct another mile of the wall in the coming weeks, Buckingham said, as the first panel was installed Tuesday while the family of Jocelyn Nungaray, killed by suspected illegal immigrants, looked on.

BATTLEGROUND STATE RANCHER ‘OUTRAGED’ BY BIDEN STOPPING WALL CONSTRUCTION AS MIGRANTS POUR INTO US

“Every day, it’s a struggle. Every day it’s hard. Some days are easier than others, but it never takes away the fact that she’s not here anymore due to the pain of people who were let in this country to do what they did to her,” Alexis – mother of Jocelyn – said during the news conference. 

Gov. Greg Abbott announced in 2021 funding for a state project to continue construction of a wall after the Biden administration abruptly ended the Trump-era project. Abbott has also built a floating buoy barrier in the Rio Grande. His administration has linked the barriers, and a broader effort by the state, to a drop in apprehensions.

Buckingham said she has offered President-elect Trump and incoming border czar Tom Homan use of the 1,400-acre property “to construct a facility for the processing, detention and coordination efforts of what will be the largest deportation of violent criminals in our nation’s history.”

Homan and Abbott greeted and served meals to Texas National Guard soldiers and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers in Eagle Pass, Texas, also on Tuesday.

‘SHUT IT DOWN’: RED STATE MAKES MASSIVE LAND BUY TO RAMP UP BORDER WALL EFFORTS AMID MIGRANT SURGE

Drone footage of a ranch in Starr County. (Texas General Land Office)

Rep. Chip Roy, also in attendance, urged his fellow Republicans to pass stricter immigration policies once Trump takes office in January.

“No excuses,” he said. 

“Americans are dying. That is why President Trump was swept into office. That is why Republicans were given the trifecta in Washington,” Roy added.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF THE BORDER SECURITY CRISIS

Migrants at the southern border and President-elect Trump (Getty Images)

Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw contributed to this report. 

Another package has been reportedly intercepted in Los Angeles County, making it the third expensive laptop delivery to be stolen in Southern California this November.

This time, however, rather than swiping it in front of a consumer’s home – the thief went a few steps further.

“I ordered a laptop online and I did it for in-store pick up because I didn’t want it to get stolen,” the consumer, Rick Markowitz, told KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw on Saturday. “And I said, ‘Hey, I’m here for my in-store pickup,’ and immediately they go, ‘Your laptop was already picked up sir,’ and I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? I’ve never come to pick it up.’”

Markowitz now says he’s out $4K after the imposter picked up his computer from an Apple Store in Sherman Oaks on Tuesday.

While he was still at the store, Markowitz says he asked the staff if he was hacked.

“They said, ‘Well we don’t know if you were hacked or not, but we’re saying someone with an ID with your name on it came in and picked up the laptop.’”

Markowitz later filed a police report and then, deciding to do some research of his own, he went online to see if this incident had happened to anyone else recently.

In his searches, he found KTLA’s report from Nov. 28 about a thief who police believe posed as a consumer, showed an ID to the delivery person, and then walked off with someone else’s package – in two separate instances.

“And I’m like, wait, am I the third incident of someone who has a laptop intercepted and tracked specifically from Apple?” posed Markowitz. “And mine was in-store, which is crazy.”

Unlike the other two instances, security footage was not immediately made available for Markowitz’s case. However, the similarities between each of the three incidents raise concerns for residents, as well as experts.

“In essence, this is identity theft,” claims Randy Sutton, a retired police lieutenant and crime prevention specialist who believes these victims have been hacked.

“Making a fake ID is a walk in the park, especially when you’re dealing with people who are sophisticated,” says Sutton.

He says in these three cases, scammers likely hacked the victims’ cell phones, getting the tracking information and potentially making an ID.

Police did not immediately say whether this incident is believed to be connected to the other two Southern California cases.

To see if your phone has been hacked, Sutton advises consumers to visit malwarefox.com, a website that he says lists “all of the different methodologies used to compromise your information.”

And Markowitz, who thought he was doing everything right, is hoping to warn shoppers.

“Now as a result, I have to beg and kick and scream up the Apple ladder just to get them to give me a refund for the laptop that was never handed to me,” cautioned Markowitz.

Sutton says in these cases, the credit card companies commonly take the brunt of the fraud, and generally, consumers are usually reimbursed.