Crime & Safety

Missing East Harlem 14-Year-Old Found Safe: Police

Police said the boy was last seen leaving school on Wednesday, Feb. 1.

Update 2/6: Missing East Harlem 14-Year-Old Zion Osborne was found and is safe, police told Patch. The boy was last seen leaving school on Wednesday, Feb. 1, and was located on Sunday, police said.

EAST HARLEM, NY — Police are searching for a 14-year-old East Harlem boy reported missing Wednesday, Feb. 1.

Zion Osborne was last seen leaving an East Harlem school around 3:25 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The boy (pictured above) is a resident of the East River Houses development in East Harlem, according to police.

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Osborne stands about 5-foot-5 and weighs around 100 pounds, police said. The missing teenager has a light complexion, brown eyes and black hair, police said. When Osborne went missing he was wearing khaki pants, a blue t-shirt, a yellow shirt and a grey bubble coat, police told Patch.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.

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