Update: Mercedes was found and is safe.

Pasco Sheriff’s deputies are currently searching for Ethan Mercedes, a missing/runaway 17-year-old. Mercedes is 5’3”, around 125 lbs., with brown eyes and brown hair. Mercedes was last seen around 3 p.m. on June 27 in the Estate Garden Dr. area of Wesley Chapel. Mercedes was last seen wearing a red t-shirt, baggy blue jeans and white Nike shoes. If you have any information on Mercedes’s whereabouts, please call the Pasco Sheriff’s Non-Emergency Line at 727-847-8102, option 7, or report tips online at PascoSheriff.com/tips.