Crime & Safety

Missing Harlem 79-Year-Old Found Safe: Police

The man was reported missing on Jan. 13.

HARLEM, NY — A 79-year-old resident of East Harlem was found safe nearly 10 days after he was first reported missing.

Manuel Cando, 79, was reported missing on Jan 13. and last seen Thursday, Jan. 19 leaving his Harlem residence on West 140th Street near Frederick Douglass Boulevard, police told Patch. Cando was reported found and safe on Sunday, Jan. 22.

Police did not have information about Cando's whereabouts during the nine days he was missing.

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