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Concern for Missing Sixteen-Year-Old (LOCATED)

For Immediate Release: Thursday, January 26, 2023

Update: Tristan Juan Carlos Prieto has been located safe and unharmed.

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Gaithersburg, MD – Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police – Special Victims Investigations Division (SVID) are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a missing 16-year-old from Wheaton. 

 

Tristan Juan Carlos Prieto was last on Thursday, January 26, 2023, at approximately 3 p.m., in the 12400 block of Dalewood Dr.

 

Prieto is approximately 5-feet, 2-inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. He has short brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black baseball hat, with the Vineyard Vines logo, a navy blue and black windbreaker jacket, a white shirt, ripped blue jeans and black Adidas sneakers, with white bottoms. He was also carrying a grey and black backpack.

 

Police and family are concerned for his welfare. 

 

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Tristan Juan Carlos Prieto is asked to call the police non-emergency number at (301) 279-8000 (24-hour line) or the Special Victims Investigations Division at (240) 773-5400. Callers may remain anonymous.  

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Release ID: 23-059
Media Contact: L.N.J.Ivey 
Categories: missing-person