HAWAII COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT
PUNA PATROL DISTRICT
SERGEANT DARRELL HUSTON
PHONE: 966-5835
APRIL 20, 2005

MEDIA RELEASE

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a 45-year-old mentally handicapped male who has been missing since Tuesday (April 19, 2005) from his Nanawale Estates home in Puna.

The missing male was identified as Daniel Desimone, who left home about 10 a.m. Tuesday. He was last seen in Pahoa.

Desimone is described as a Caucasian male, being 5-foot-8 in height, weighing about 170 pounds, being clean shaven and having blue eyes, balding brown hair and a fair complexion.

His guardian said Desimone likes to collect cans and bottles from the roadside, dumpsters and trashcans.

Anyone with information about the missing man or knows of his whereabouts is asked to call his guardian at 965-7318 or the police non-emergency number at 935-3311.

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