EL TORO : Help Asked in Search for 2 Retarded Men
Authorities are seeking the public’s help in locating two mentally retarded men who have been missing for two days and were last seen leaving their homes to board a bus destined for Mission Viejo Mall.
Richard Michael Neve, 22, and Rory Nichols, 35, boarded the bus at 8:30 a.m. Sunday from their El Toro homes, said Orange County Sheriff’s Sgt. Richard Paddock. The pair has a fascination for visiting malls and beaches, he added.
Neve is just over six feet tall, weighs 150 pounds and has hazel eyes and brown hair. He was last seen wearing a red jacket with tan sleeves, blue stonewashed jeans and white tennis shoes.
Nichols, who has a history of seizures and needs daily medication, is 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 132 pounds, with brown eyes, curly blond hair and a noticeable chip in his upper front tooth. He may have been wearing a baseball cap and a long-sleeved shirt, Paddock said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s department at (714) 647-7000 or investigator Mike Wallace at (714) 647-7055.
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