UPDATE: Hawai‘i Island police report that 15-year-old Elijah Fontes, who had been reported as a runaway, was located in Hilo in good health on December 1, 2021.
ORIGINAL POST: Hawai‘i Island police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 15-year-old Elijah Fontes of Hilo, who was reported as a runaway.
Fontes was last seen in the area of the 300 block of Kalanianaole Avenue in Hilo, on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, at 9 a.m. He was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, black shorts, and slippers.
He is described as being local, with tan skin, 5-feet tall, 115 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
Police ask anyone with information on his whereabouts to call the police department’s non-emergency line at (808) 935-3311.