Esdras Sun Pop, a 15-year-old Hispanic male, was last seen leaving his sponsor’s home in Culpeper, Virginia, sometime during the night of September 13, 2022. He was reported missing to the Culpeper Police Department under case number 2209-0128. Esdras is described as 5 feet tall, about 118 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

His disappearance is part of a larger pattern affecting unaccompanied Guatemalan minors placed with sponsors in Culpeper County; since July 2021, many of those youths have been reported missing, sometimes with significant delays between when they left sponsors’ homes and when they were reported. Local and federal agencies, including the Office of Refugee Resettlement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have been involved in the inquiries.

Few concrete details about Esdras’s movements after he left the sponsor’s home have been released. Does anyone in Culpeper or the surrounding area have information about Esdras’s last known whereabouts or contacts?