Samuel Navarrete was six years old when he and a family member vanished after arriving in the United States from Colombia on May 13, 2016. They moved into an Englewood, New Jersey, home with the family member’s fiancé and on the morning of May 20, 2016 the two left for breakfast and did not return.

There were sporadic moments of contact afterward, and at some point the family member was removed from the National Crime Information Center missing persons file while Samuel’s entry remained active. In 2020 Samuel was enrolled in the Anaheim, California, school system, but that lead went cold and the Anaheim Police Department now believes he may no longer be in the United States.

Who has information about Samuel’s movements after 2020 or about why his status stayed as a missing person when the accompanying family member’s did not?