GARDEN GROVE : Missing Man ‘Just Took a Vacation’
A man who disappeared last month has returned home after deciding “to get away for a while,” police said Tuesday.
Michael William Johnston, 28, returned to his Garden Grove home about 5 p.m. Monday, police said. Johnston was in good physical condition and did not tell investigators where he went, said Detective Tim Craig, who was investigating the case.
“He just took a little vacation and wanted to get away for a while,” Craig said.
Johnston had not been seen or heard from since he called his mother about noon on Oct. 30 from the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Westminster, where he was renewing his driver’s license, police said.
Johnston told detectives he did not know anyone was looking for him and decided to return on his own, in the Ford LTD he was driving when he disappeared.
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