MONTEREY PARK >> Police found a mentally and physically disabled 40-year-old man who went missing from his Monterey Park home for most of the day Sunday.
Guangwei Liu vanished about midnight at his home in the 300 block of E. Newmark Avenue, Monterey Park police officials said in a written statement.
When his family awoke in the morning, the front door of the home was open and Liu was gone, Lt. Tina Montoya said.
“Mr. Liu has the mental capacity of a 6-year-old and he walks slowly due to a prior hip injury,” according to the police statement. “He has been in this country for only a few months.”
A recent immigrant from China, Lieu speaks Mandarin, Montoya said. He does not speak English.
He has no associates, places that he frequents or the knowledge as to how to get back to his residence, Montoya added.
“Guangwei does not have any identification, cash or a cell phone on him,” he said. “Guangwei could not provide his home address or if asked as he does not know that information.”
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department sent bloodhounds to assist Monterey Park police in the search, Montoya said.
The dogs tracked the missing man’s scent tot he area of Huntington and Garcelona avenues, a little under a mile away, police said.
Police went door-to-door in the neighborhood seeking clues, but did not find Liu.
But Liu turned up about 5:15 p.m., when an employee of the Quang Hoa Supermarket, 350 E. Garvey Ave., called police to report that a man had been sitting at the market since the early morning, Montoya said.
He was unharmed and reunited with his family, she said.