A teenager who went missing in 2016 was found outside a gas station in Utah almost three years after he disappeared from his home in California, authorities announced this week. Connerjack Oswalt was last seen in Willows, California, about 85 miles north of Sacramento. His disappearance was reported by the Clearlake Police Department at the end of September 2019, when he was 16 years old. According to a statement from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office in Utah, lawmakers had approached a young man in a “few weeks” march, responding to community calls for a homeless man wandering in the Kimball Junction area, pushing a shopping cart. “ “Deputies responded each time and offered services to the young man, who did NOT violate the law – he refused any help,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement posted on Facebook. On April 9, law enforcement received a call about the young man sleeping outside Jeremy’s Store, a convenience store in Park City, Utah, about 32.5 miles from Salt Lake City. “Through previous interactions and Saturday interaction, it was clear to MPs that the man was communicating differently,” the Summit County Sheriff’s Office said of Oswalt, who has autism. The department worked to identify Oswalt through a finger scan, as he did not tell lawmakers his name, Sheriff Justin Martinez told local news station WTVT and later found an arrest warrant from Nevada for Conerjac’s Oswalt. to be misspelled. “MPs again felt that there was more to this story, there is more to this person being resilient, reluctant to communicate,” Martinez said, adding that they then began to go through the National Center for Missing Persons database. and Exploited Children. “After about 16 pages of searching for names and photos and trying to find something that matched, we came up with the name, Connerjack Oswalt,” Martinez said. Police then contacted Clearlake authorities and Oswalt’s mother, Suzanne Flint, who confirmed that her son was still missing. A Clearlake Police Department spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An email address that appears to belong to Oswalt’s mother did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a statement to WTVT, the Clearlake Police Department said: “It was great news for us at the Clearlake Police Department to hear that Conner was spotted safe from Summit County Sheriff’s office. We hope Conner’s family can receive some necessary relief knowing that it’s okay. “ Oswalt’s father, Gerald Flint, said he was “still dumbfounded” by the situation and that finding Oswalt, now 19, alive was “unbelievable”. “We have had a lot of false hopes over the last two and a half years,” Gerald Flint told WTVT. “We are grateful she is safe and alive and we have our son back,” added Suzanne Flint. “This is the most important thing for us.”
