ONE California teenager with autism was found sleeping in a Jute gas station parking three years after his disappearance from his family home. Connerjack Oswalt, who left his home in Clearlake, California in September 2019 at the age of 17 and has not appeared since, was found by his sheriff’s deputies shivering from the cold as he slept at a Summit County gas station. Utah this week. Connerjack Oswalt, 19, was found in Utah after disappearing in California at the age of 17 (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) DA: 3 OF THE 6 DEAD IN THE SACRAMEDO SETTLEMENTS WERE IN CONFORMITY Oswalt appeared to be homeless and reportedly lived on the streets there for about two weeks. His family has been looking for him for years, handing out leaflets, scanning social media and desperately chasing fruitless opportunities. They even returned to his hometown of Idaho Falls, hoping he would eventually return. “Any hints of something very similar to him, we would watch,” said his father, Gerald Flint. “It was a real nightmare.” Oswalt, who has been diagnosed with autism and other mental health problems, was 17 when he left the family home in Clearlake, California. His mother, Suzanne Flint, remembered making quesadillas, but when it came time for lunch, he was gone. “I never stopped looking for him. There was not a day that I did not look for him, in any form or way,” he said. The exact circumstances of his disappearance and where he has been for the past two years are under investigation, police said. CALIFORNIA POLICE RECOGNIZE ROBBERS WHO BREAK HAMMER CASES TO KAY JEWELERS Deputies had met Oswalt several times in recent weeks, but the teenager refused their help when they asked for services until they finally agreed to seek warmth in a patrol car at the gas station. This led to a pending warrant from February in Nevada. Police began working in shifts through the bureaucracy, searching for reports of missing and threatened children. About 16 pages inside, they found a 2019 missing person report from Clearlake, California. Although he had a slightly different spelling of the name from the Nevada warrant, the photos matched and invited his family. Pedestrians walk in front of a road sign reading “Face Mask Required” in Summit County near Park City, Utah, USA on Saturday, August 1, 2020. Photographer: Kim Raff / Bloomberg via Getty Images (Kim Raff / Bloomberg via Getty Images) CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION When the Flints first received the call, they were worried that their son had been found dead. After his wife confirmed the identification through a birthmark, Gerald Flint quit his job, jumped in his car and drove to Utah for four hours. “Everyone in the room cried. They went up and down, they worked long hours,” he said. “They could have rejected it, but they did not, and that made a difference in the world.” Social workers with knowledge of autism took care of Oswalt after he was reunited with his family, said Lt. Andrew Wright, Summit County Sheriff. His family hopes to bring him back home soon. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
