Jean Carlos Da Cruz Gomes, a 42-year-old Brazilian national, went missing during an attempt to cross into the United States in the summer of 2013. Family last heard from him on August 8, 2013. He was last reported near Pisinemo in Pima County, Arizona, described as a Hispanic male, 5 feet 6 inches tall, 190–200 pounds, with black curly hair, brown eyes, a mustache and beard, and a self-drawn cone-shaped tattoo on his right front thigh.

According to communications received by his brother, Jean Carlos texted on August 4 that he was crossing at Sonoyta, Sonora. On August 8 the guide reported Jean Carlos had blistered feet and that the group planned to cross Highway 86 the next day. On August 9 the guide called again to say Jean Carlos could not continue and had been left behind near mile marker 20 of Highway 86, no more than a 20-minute walk north of the highway. He was said to be wearing brown pants, a large green t-shirt, a baseball cap, and carrying a black backpack, a Mexican cell phone, and his Brazilian passport.

The Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office is handling the investigation. The last confirmed information places him alone and vulnerable in desert terrain; nothing further about his whereabouts is known from these reports. If anyone was in the Pisinemo or Highway 86 area in August 2013 or has information about this crossing group, please come forward.