Missing and endangered woman from Deland found safe

**UPDATE: 

Julie Melleah Beckwith has been located and was taken into protective custody Tuesday morning.

 

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The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help to find a missing and endangered woman from Deland.

Julie Melleah Beckwith, 64, left her home on Redge Blvd. on foot on Monday night around 6:00 p.m. Her family says she did not bring her phone, wallet or medication for bipolar disorder with her.

Deputies have been searching a wooded area and bloodhounds from theT omoka Correctional Institute are also being called in to help locate Beckwith.

Anyone who locates her is asked to call 911 immediately.