Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Missing San Jose Man With Mental Capacity of 10-Year-Old Found on Tuesday

Police located the man who was last seen on Sunday several miles from his home.

UPDATE as of March 5: 

A San Jose man who was reported missing after disappearing on Sunday night has been found and is home safe, police said today.

At about 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, police received a report that a man matching Hipolito Canseco's description had been spotted several miles from home in the area of Capitol Expressway and state Highway 87.

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Detective Alfonso Rodriguez of the Police Department's missing-persons unit went to that area and located Canseco, police said. He was unharmed and has since been reunited with his family.

Rodriguez said the person who called police had seen TV news reports of Canseco's disappearance and spotted him at a McDonald's.

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Rodriguez went out to investigate the report and found Canseco.

"There he was, standing in front of the McDonald's," Rodriguez said.

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San Jose police are asking for help in the search for an at-risk San Jose man who has been missing since Sunday night, police said.

Hipolito Canseco, 53, was last seen at about 9 p.m. and lives at 1315 Vine St., which is about eight miles due west of Cupertino's border.

His family said Canseco suffered a head injury when he was 10 years old and as a result, his mental capacity is that of a 10-year-old. He can only provide his name and only speaks Spanish, police said.

Canseco also has a history of seizures.

He is described as a Hispanic man, standing 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, with salt-and-pepper hair, a black mustache and a medium build, police said.

He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, dark blue sweatpants and sandals.

Anyone with information about Canseco's whereabouts is asked to call San Jose police at 408-277-4786 or dial 911.

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