Vancouver police search for missing boy, 12Free

By Will Campbell, Columbian Associate Editor

Published: February 1, 2020, 5:16am

Police are searching for Jovanni Chavez, 12, last seen on Thursday at 1 p.m. near the 3200 block of Grand Boulevard. (Courtesy of the Vancouver Police Department)

Update: Jovanni Chavez has been found and is home safe.

Police are searching for a missing 12-year-old boy, Jovanni Chavez, last seen on Thursday at 1 p.m. near the 3200 block of Grand Boulevard.

Chavez is about 5-feet-8-inches tall and weighs about 170 pounds, according to a Friday news release from the Vancouver Police Department.

He has black hair and brown eyes, and he was last seen wearing black jeans and a black sweatshirt with a tiger graphic.

Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to call 911.

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