UPDATE: Ethan Hansel has been found and is safe.

ORIGINAL RELEASE:

Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre is asking for the public’s help in locating 15-year-old Ethan Hansel of Galliano. He was last seen at around 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 25, when he left his foster parents’ residence on West 177th Street in Galliano. Ethan is described as 5’6” tall, weighing approximately 185 pounds, with brown hair. He was last seen wearing a Golden Meadow Middle School hooded sweatshirt and black jogging pants. Anyone with information on Ethan’s whereabouts is asked to call the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office at (985) 532-2808, or simply call 9-1-1.

Ethan Hansel