Crime & Safety

Update: Missing Smyrna Man Found

Andrew Lichtenstadter had not been seen since 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Update, 12:01 p.m.

Andrew Lichtenstadter, the 22-year-old man who was the focus of a Mattie's Call search after he wandered away from a Smyrna group home, has been found safe, according to 11Alive News.

Sgt. Dana Pierce with the Cobb County Police Department was not immediately available for comment.

This isn't the first time that Lichtenstadter disappeared, according to Dunwoody Patch. In May 2012, he walked out of a Perimeter-area restaurant after he became upset during a family dinner. The family left him on his own while he cooled off. When they went outside to look for him, he was gone.

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He was found the next day near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Dunwoody Police said at the time that they didn't know how he had traveled to the airport.

Original report, 9:55 a.m.

The Cobb County Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Unit has issued a Mattie’s Call for a 22-year-old schizophrenic and bipolar man who walked away from a Smyrna group home at 299 Fowler Rd.

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Andrew Lichtenstadter, who has also been diagnosed with a personality disorder, has not been seen since 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sgt. Dana Pierce with the Cobb County Police Department said this morning in a news release.

Lichtenstadter, a 5-foot-6, 122-lb. white man with brown hair and hazel eyes, was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt and blue jeans.

Investigators do not believe he had access to a vehicle, Pierce said.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 770-499-3945.

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