Nevada arrest warrant helps reunite missing California teen with family

A yearslong seek for an autistic teen who disappeared in California got here to a heartwarming finish final week, thanks partly to a warrant for his arrest issued in Goodsprings.

Connerjack Oswalt, now 19, disappeared from his house in Clearlake, California, in September 2019.

“I by no means stopped in search of him. There wasn’t a day I wasn’t looking for him, in some type or vogue,” Oswalt’s mom, Suzanne Flint, instructed The Related Press.

Simply after 5 a.m. on April 9, almost three years after Oswalt disappeared, deputies with the Summit County Sheriff’s Workplace in Utah discovered an unidentified man in entrance of a comfort retailer within the Park Metropolis space. Sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Wright stated deputies persuaded the person to get into their patrol automobile.

“He was chilly and shivering. It was a really chilly morning,” Wright instructed the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal on Monday. “They provided to get him into their patrol automobile. It was merely a sort gesture to assist him get heat.”

Contained in the patrol automobile, deputies persuaded the person to offer them his fingerprint, which then was run via a police database, Wright stated. Deputies realized that the person was needed in Goodsprings beneath the title “Conner Oswald” on fees that he tried to assault a Nevada Freeway Patrol trooper with a rock alongside Interstate 15 in October.

A web based search by a dispatcher then decided that “Oswald” was really Oswalt, and the lacking man was reunited along with his household.

“It turned out to be a really miraculous encounter,” Wright stated.

It is a growing story. Verify again for updates.

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