Crime & Safety
MISSING: Jayvon Mason, Crown Heights 15-Year-Old
Mason was last seen in his Dean Street apartment last Friday morning, police say.

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Jayvon Mason, a 15-year-old resident of the apartment building at 1303 Dean St., a few blocks south of Bed-Stuy, was declared a missing person Sunday by the NYPD.
By late Tuesday evening, police confirmed the boy still hadn't been found.
Mason was last seen around 8 a.m. Friday morning in the Dean Street apartment, according to the NYPD. He was wearing a black sweatshirt, a white T-shirt, gray sweatpants and red-and-black sneakers at the time, police said.
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The missing boy is believed to be around 5-feet-6-inches tall and 150 pounds.
Anyone with information on Mason's whereabouts is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. Spanish speakers can call 1-888-57-PISTA.
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Tips can also be submitted online or by texting 274637, then entering TIP577.
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