Camp Pendleton confirms Marine missing, did not report for duty [Video]

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) – A North Carolina family is trying to locate missing Camp Pendleton Marine Corporal Charles Alex Benfield.

“We’re all worried. This isn’t normal behavior for Alex, just to leave and not to have any contact with anyone, especially my mom,” said Sarah Lazo, Benfield’s sister.

Benfield was out in downtown San Diego over the weekend when he was detained for public intoxication, then released from the McAlister Institute Recovery and Bridge Center on Sunday.

Lazo explains what the front desk there relayed to authorities.

“He was saying how he was scared, he was going to lose his rank because they had to meet that following morning at 8 a.m., which he had obviously missed. He said he needed to find his phone, so he was going to go search for that,” she said.

A communications director with the Marines issued this statement:

“Cpl. Charles Benfield, a field artillery cannoneer assigned to Battalion Landing Team 1/5, …