Crime & Safety

Boston Police Search For Missing Teen With Autism, Schizophrenia

Police say 16-year-old Dimitrius Pepin Cepeda has been located in Newton and Everett in the past but has not been seen since Wednesday.

Police say he was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, sweatpants, black and white sneakers, and uses glasses.
Police say he was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, sweatpants, black and white sneakers, and uses glasses. (Boston Police Department)

BOSTON — The Boston Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a teenager from Boston with autism and schizophrenia.

Dimitrius Pepin Cepeda, 16, has been missing since Wednesday and was last seen in his home neighborhood on Wheatley Way in Roxbury.

Police say he was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, sweatpants, black and white sneakers, and uses glasses.

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Cepeda has been found in Newton and Everett in the past, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the police.

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