WARREN — The police are looking for a Baltimore Avenue couple who have been missing for more than a week.

For the last three days, state and Warren police have combed the property at 14 Baltimore Ave., home of James A. Soares, 60, and his wife, Marian F. Soares, 53. A search dog was brought to the house Thursday night, a witness said.

Family members had reported the two missing July 15, according a Warren police news release yesterday announcing the Soares’ disappearance.

Cars were parked in the home’s driveway yesterday afternoon. A lone Warren police cruiser and a state-police-crime-unit van were also parked outside. The Warren police yesterday did not return calls seeking more information.

The police describe James Soares as white, 5 feet 11 inches tall and 160 pounds, with dark gray hair and brown eyes. Marian Soares is white, 5 feet 4 inches tall and 165 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on the couple’s whereabouts should call Warren police Detective David Annunziata at (401) 245-1311.

Law-enforcement authorities have twice raided the Soares’ home during criminal investigations.

James Soares was indicted in 2002 on a federal charge of unlawfully possessing firearms as a convicted felon. The police in July of that year seized 12 long rifles, three handguns and about 30,000 rounds of ammunition from the Soares home, authorities said at the time. Soares pleaded guilty to the charge and was placed on home confinement for one year, as well as five years’ probation.

Soares and his wife were arrested in 1986 on drug-possession charges after a police raid of their home recovered cocaine, Valium, the tranquilizer drug Ativan, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, a .357 Magnum and $1,350, the police said at the time. James Soares pleaded no contest to a felony drug-possession charge and the court imposed a three-year suspended sentence and placed Soares on probation for five years. Court records do not show a disposition of Marian Soares’ case.

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