Elk Grove police are searching for a 48-year-old man with special needs who walked away from his home off Laguna Park Drive on Tuesday evening and hasn't been seen since. Wai Yu Leung, who stands 5-foot-8 and weighs about 140 pounds, was last seen around 5 p.m. wearing a brown t-shirt and white plaid shorts, and was carrying a white and blue backpack.
The Elk Grove Police Department asked for the public's help locating Leung in a post on X, warning that he will likely be unable to find his way back on his own. Anyone who spots him is asked to call the department's communications center at (916) 714-5115. According to the same post, Leung has been found before — once in Elk Grove, once in South Sacramento, and on at least one occasion in North Sacramento.
Leung's Neighborhood Sits Along Elk Grove's Laguna Greenbelt Trail
The home Leung walked away from sits along a stretch of Laguna Park Drive that runs directly beside the Foulks Ranch/Laguna Greenbelt, a 1.6-mile paved trail network described by the City of Elk Grove that links surrounding subdivisions to schools and parks, including Kloss Park and Pedersen Park. Cosumnes Community Services District Fire Station 74 sits at 6501 Laguna Park Drive, right next to Kloss Park and Foulks Ranch Elementary School, according to the same city resource.
Sacramento Regional Transit's Bus Route 164 also runs along Laguna Park Drive, offering a direct connection to nearby medical centers and commercial corridors, per Care Changes. Those overlapping trail and transit connections illustrate how far Leung could travel from the neighborhood without needing a car.
State Law and Regional Data Underscore the Urgency of Elk Grove's Search
California law allows police to request a statewide Silver Alert through the California Highway Patrol for missing people with developmental disabilities or cognitive impairments once local resources have been exhausted and the person is determined to be in danger, according to CalAlerts.org. California expanded Silver Alert criteria in recent years to cover people of any age with developmental or cognitive disabilities, not just seniors, per the same source.
The scale of the issue is significant regionally: the California Department of Justice recorded more than 1,500 reports of missing adults in Sacramento County in 2025 alone, according to the state Department of Justice. A separate April 2026 report from the department's SB 882 Advisory Council found that California peace officers take official action more than twice as often, on average, during stops involving people with perceived intellectual or developmental disabilities compared with stops involving people without such disabilities. Anyone who spots Leung outside Elk Grove can also reach the department's statewide missing persons line at 1-800-222-FIND (3463).
Elk Grove Police Have a Strong Track Record, but Cases Keep Climbing
The Elk Grove Police Department maintains 153 sworn officers across five patrol beats for a city of more than 176,000 residents, with a 24-hour communications center staffed to take reports like Leung's, according to the city's police department.
The department closed 74 of the 78 missing person cases it opened in 2023, based on an analysis by ABC10. That clearance rate offers some reassurance, even as missing-adult cases keep piling up across the region.
Elk Grove's search echoes one Hoodline covered in November 2025, when the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office sought help finding 46-year-old Jimmy Xiao Guan, an at-risk man who disappeared from South Sacramento near Calvine and Elk Grove Florin roads. That case is a reminder that Elk Grove and Sacramento County jurisdictions blend along shared transit and greenbelt corridors, per Hoodline's earlier reporting.
