JAMES ANDREWS - 17 yo / Down's Syndrome - Lincoln NE

Police are looking for a 17-year-old boy with Down syndrome who
disappeared from church Sunday night.

James Andrews has been missing since about 8:30 p.m. Sunday, said
Capt. Jim Thoms. He was at Blessed Sacrament Church, 1720 Lake St.,
with his parents.

Andrews, who lives in the area of 22nd and D streets, is white,
about 5 feet 5 inches tall and 150 pounds with brown shaggy hair
over the ears, blue eyes and braces on his teeth, Thoms said.

He was wearing khaki shorts, navy blue Croc shoes and a white
T-shirt with a dog's face with green circle around it with the
slogan "Life is Good" on the front, Thoms said.

Update: Missing Teen Found




The
search for a missing 17-year-old has been called off. He was found,
unharmed, eating a hamburger inside a Lincoln Burger King.

Debi Upton was driving her 2006 International semi near Rock
Island, Ill., early Monday morning when a co-worker called to say
he'd shut off the lights in her car back in Lincoln.

"I said, 'I didn't leave my lights on.'"

Then she went on her way, not giving much thought to the car at
16th and Pioneers.

She got another call.

"'Uh, Debi, I don't think you left your lights on.'"

He'd heard a 17-year-old Lincoln boy missing since he walked
away from church Sunday evening had spent the night in an unlocked
Cadillac outside of Universal Transit.

"I leave it unlocked because it's an old car," Upton says of her
car, which is actually a blue Buick LeSabre. "It's a 1990 and
sometimes you can open it with a key and sometimes you can't."

Even though Upton, 49, knew before she got back to Lincoln on
Wednesday that James Andrews had weathered a chilly night in her
car, she found some surprises: a box of Russell Stover chocolates,
thank you notes -- and a set of keys, including an ignition key for
a Honda.

Also, the contents of the glove box were strewn about and
everything that could be turned on was turned on.

"He went rummaging," Upton says on Thursday. "... it was a good
learning lesson for me. I went through and cleaned everything
out."

Here's what the thank you said: "Dear owner of the Catalacc,
thak you for your car. It was very cold, and your car was wram.
Jamie"

Wrote Jamie's mom: "Dear Car Owner, you probably save my son's
life. Thanks from my whole heart, Amy Svoboda"

Upton, who hauls meat to the southeastern U.S. and produce back
for Dean Wollen Enterprises, was tickled by the notes and the
chocolates. But she worried about that set of keys.

"I knew the keys must belong to his family."

They do.

"I forgot about that," Amy Svoboda says Thursday. "Jamie
mentioned that he actually left his keys there."

Yes, she says, she and her son, who has Down Syndrome, went back
to what she laughingly calls the scene of the crime after he was
home safe from his Sunday night adventure.

"I was just so interested how this really could have happened
like that," she says. "I took Jamie over there and there it
was."

Her son told her he knew to look for shelter in a car because he
heard Jay Leno talk about a lost kid who did. He found two unlocked
cars, he told his mom, and he liked the blue one better.

"I just couldn't resist thanking some person who might have
saved his life," Amy Svoboda says.

But alas, the thank you did not include a Honda.

That's OK with Upton. She's got an Impala in her garage in
Beaver Crossing, and she's had plenty of good luck lately.

"I threw 250 dollars cash away accidentally in Kentucky two
weeks ago. I remembered where I'd done it and I called and got
ahold of a little gal named Kayla and she went out and found it and
sent it back."

Upton, who didn't expect to see the money again, says she spent
it on Wii equipment for the nursing home where her grandparents
lived.

"I got them guns and Wii Music and nunchucks so now they can do
boxing."