Crime & Safety

Teenager Reported Missing On Upper East Side, Police Say

The 14-year-old boy was last seen Saturday at his apartment building on East 94th Street.

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The NYPD is asking for the public's help to locate a boy who went missing on the Upper East Side.

Emmanuel Dejesus, 14, was reported missing early Monday morning and hasn't been seen since Saturday afternoon, police said. The last time the boy can be accounted for is around 3 p.m. Saturday, when he was at home in his First Avenue and East 94th Street apartment building, police said.

Dejesus is described as standing 5-foot-11 and weighing about 140 pounds with a medium build, police said. The 14-year-old has brown eyes, curly brown hair and piercings in both ears. He was last seen wearing black track pants with white stripes, a black t-shirt, a black parka with brown fur and white sneakers.

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Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).

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