Family and friends look for missing Granite City man with help of search dog and police

Carolyn P. Smith, Derik Holtmann
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Family, friends, authorities and a search dog on Friday afternoon were looking for a missing Granite City man who disappeared after leaving a strip club in Washington Park on Sunday.

The family is offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Joshua Amos, who is 32.

Joshua Amos, 32, of Granite City, was last seen on surveillance video in Washington Park.
Joshua Amos, 32, of Granite City, was last seen on surveillance video in Washington Park.

The search Friday was in East St. Louis, where cameras from a local trucking company on Lincoln Avenue captured Amos’ image at 7:28 a.m. Sunday. He was seen on surveillance video leaving Scarlett’s strip club on Bunkum Road in Washington Park at 5 a.m., according to his mother, Christine Simpson.

The two sites - the trucking company in East St. Louis and the club in Washington Park - are about four miles apart.

Around 1:30 p.m. Friday, the search for Amos continued in the 2000 block of North 23rd Street in East St. Louis. Amos’ family, friends and Illinois State Police were following closely behind the search dog and his handler. The name of the group with the search dog is SAR K9 Co-op Inc.

Family, friends, authorities and members of SAR K9 Co-op Inc. were looking for a missing Granite City man who disappeared after leaving a strip club in Washington Park on Sunday. The search area was near Lincoln Ave. and 19th St. close to a trucking company that had surveillance video of the missing man.
Family, friends, authorities and members of SAR K9 Co-op Inc. were looking for a missing Granite City man who disappeared after leaving a strip club in Washington Park on Sunday. The search area was near Lincoln Ave. and 19th St. close to a trucking company that had surveillance video of the missing man.

“We’re hoping he will be found safe,” his mother told the BND on Friday. “Our family misses him and wants him home.”

Simpson said her son has children he loves very much. Simpson said while it is tough not knowing, she is holding on.

Amos is bipolar and has been in rehab for chemical addiction, she said earlier this week.

Amos was wearing a gray hoodie, blue jeans and black Adidas shoes when he disappeared. He is 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighs about 190-195 pounds. He has tattoos on his chest, left and right biceps and lower arms.

His chest tattoos are of his daughters’ names, one beginning with a `B’ and the other beginning with an `M.’

A poster states that anyone with information should call 618-967-1027, 618-219-0830, 618-866-3772.