Missing Bradenton Boy Found

BRADENTON, FL — Update: The Manatee County Sheriff's Office reports that Luis Ramirez has been found and is safe.

Earlier: The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is looking for help finding a missing 11-year-old Bradenton boy.

According to the sheriff’s office, Luis Fernando Ramirez was last seen early Sunday morning near his home in the 3000 block of 8th Street East. Luis had been in trouble with his mother for going out with his 14-year-old brother without their mother’s permission, the sheriff's office wrote in an email to media.

Luis’ mother noticed he wasn’t in his room around 1:25 a.m. Sunday and walked outside to see if he was in the front yard, the email said. She spotted him on his bicycle riding north and yelled for him to come home. Deputies say the boy kept riding.

The sheriff’s office searched for the boy after receiving a call from his mother. He was not found.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 941-737-3011.

Photo courtesy of the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office