San Diego Boy Found in Mexico at Aunt’s House

A 13-year-old Logan Heights boy reported missing Monday was located at an aunt’s home in the distant Mexican town of Santa Rosalia, police said Wednesday.

Miguel Samaniego, a fifth-grader at Gage Elementary School in San Carlos, was found by his father, who telephoned relatives in the Baja California Sur town as part of the search, police spokesman Bill Robinson said.

Samaniego apparently was traveling to Guerrero Negro to see his mother, Robinson said. Robinson had no information about how the boy made the trip of more than 500 miles to Santa Rosalia or why he would bypass Guerrero Negro, which is more than 100 miles northwest of where he was found.

A man who said he encountered the boy on his bicycle in Chula Vista on Monday night also told police that the boy had said he was traveling to Mexico to visit his mother, Robinson said.

The boy’s father, Ismael Samaniego, had told police that Miguel was last seen by younger siblings when he rode off on his bicycle early Monday afternoon, presumably to hunt for aluminum cans in Chicano Park.