Missing woman found, Silver Alert canceled

Inside Scoop, Leesburg | By Marilyn M. Aciego | February 2, 2026 | Lake County, Leesburg, Missing, Siler Alert, The Villages | 1 minute of reading

Update: 10:30 p.m. Ann Vaida has been located safe.

THE VILLAGES, Fla.—A Silver Alert has been issued for a 77-year-old woman of the Villages, according to Leesburg Police Department.

Ann Vaida is described as 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has brown hair and blue eyes. She was last seen in the 1000 block of Walsh Lane in The Villages and was wearing a jean jacket and black tights. She has a shunt on the back side of her head.

Vaida may be traveling in a white Ford Fusion, license plate 76EIQZ.

If you have information in Vaida’s whereabouts, call 911.

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Marilyn M. Aciego

Publisher Marilyn M. Aciego was born and raised in Lake County and is a graduate of Umatilla High School and Lake-Sumter State College. She began her journalism career at LSSC and in 2023 she was honored with LSSC’s Distinguished Alumni Professional Achievement Award. She began working at the Daily Commercial while she was in college and continued her career there as a reporter after she graduated. In her 20+ year-career, she covered many of the area’s top stories including the disappearance of Trenton Duckett and the death of beloved Sheriff Chris Daniels. She has landed many exclusive interviews and was the first to break two of the biggest stories of 2024- the death of Jamaria Sessions and the murder of a Lake County Sheriff's Office deputy and the attempted murder of two other deputies. In addition to Inside Lake, Marilyn is the single mom of a teenaged son and the Florida Bureau Chief for an international media organization.

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