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Help detectives find missing schizophrenic Lancaster man

by The AV Times Staff • December 9, 2020

LANCASTER – Authorities are seeking the public’s help to find a man with schizophrenia who went missing from his home in Lancaster.

Manuel “Manny” Padilla, 44, was last seen around 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, in the 45200 block of 32nd Street West, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported.

Padilla is Hispanic, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 180 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a white sweatshirt and tan pants.

“Mr. Padilla suffers [from] paranoid schizophrenia. His family has not seen or heard from him,” a sheriff’s statement said. “They are very concerned.”

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to call the sheriff’s Missing Persons Unit at 323-890-5500.

Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Home, Lancaster

5 comments for "Help detectives find missing schizophrenic Lancaster man"

  1. OKFine says

    December 14, 2020 at 3:43 pm

    Probably at the Whitehouse with Trump fighting election results.

    • Agnew says

      December 14, 2020 at 5:39 pm

      That was good.

  2. Hernandez says

    December 14, 2020 at 3:25 pm

    I saw this fool eating a dead cat on the street while I drove near Palmdale high school. I knew he was jacked up in the head or maybe he was just hungry.

    • BE says

      December 14, 2020 at 5:57 pm

      What an ignorant thing to say . Mental illness is no joke .

  3. Schizophrenic says

    December 9, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    Check DTLA for Manny’s whereabouts.

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