Youth With Autism Found In City Of Orange: Update

COSTA MESA, CA — Costa Mesa police Wednesday sought public help to find a missing 12-year-old boy with autism. He was found hours later in the City of Orange, police said.

Diego Garcia went missing about 9 p.m. Tuesday in the 1200 block of Adams Avenue, the Costa Mesa Police Department reported.

"It is believed that he might have been spotted by an OCTA bus driver in area of South Coast Drive and Harbor Boulevard at about 3:30 a.m. this morning," a police statement said.

Police released a photo of the boy, who is Hispanic, with a medium build, brown eyes, and long black hair that he may be wearing in a ponytail. He was wearing a red T-shirt, blue pajama pants, and blue tennis shoes.

Photo, courtesy Costa Mesa Police Department