Crime & Safety

Missing Macomb County Child With Autism Returned Home: Police

The department is continuing to investigate the incident to see what happened, police said.

MACOMB COUNTY, MI — Eastpointe Police said a 13-year-old child with autism who was reported missing Tuesday night has returned home.

Police said they issued a missing and endangered advisory for Marquise Tolbert after he was seen getting into a black pickup truck on Pleasant Avenue and had not been heard from since.

Tolbert, police said, has a cognitive impairment and his family had reported that they did not know anyone with that style of truck. Police said they believed the child was in danger.

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But on Wednesday, police said Marquise had returned to his home. The department is continuing to investigate the incident to see what happened, police said.

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