A 17-year-old San Antonio boy has been missing since Saturday, and Bexar County deputies are asking the public for help finding him. Kingston Saulny-Forrest was last seen leaving his home on the 8100 block of Seldon Trail after an argument with his mother, and his whereabouts remained unknown as of Monday.
According to KENS 5, the Bexar County Sheriff's Office says Saulny-Forrest was last seen near Old Seguin Road and Walzem Road on Saturday. He's described as standing around six feet tall and weighing 170 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. The sheriff's office is asking anyone with information or who spots him to call 210-335-6000 or email the BCSO Missing Persons Unit at [email protected].
The search comes as deputies juggle another active case on the same day. The sheriff's office issued a separate appeal Tuesday for 15-year-old Justin Sierra, who disappeared from the county's west side after last being seen Monday, illustrating just how many missing-teen cases local investigators are managing at once.
A County Already Stretched Thin on Missing Persons Cases
Bexar County law enforcement agencies logged nearly 3,000 missing juvenile reports in 2025 alone, placing the San Antonio area among the highest-volume counties for missing youth in the state. That volume is part of why the Bexar County Sheriff's Office secured $370,000 in county funding last November to create a dedicated Missing Persons Unit, adding an investigator and administrative clerk to help deputies who had been managing more than 600 open cases alongside violent crime duties, according to reporting from the San Antonio Report.
Statewide, the numbers are even larger. The Texas Department of Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse recorded 44,783 missing person reports in 2024, and juveniles under 18 made up more than 71 percent of those, according to data cited by PR Newswire. Nationally, the picture is more reassuring: the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children assisted with 29,568 missing child cases in 2024 and helped safely recover 91 percent of those children, per figures from the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Why No CLEAR Alert Was Issued
No emergency CLEAR Alert has gone out for Saulny-Forrest. Texas restricts that system to missing individuals aged 18 to 64, or to 17-year-olds when law enforcement confirms evidence of imminent danger or involuntary disappearance, a threshold Hoodline has previously reported on in the case of another missing San Antonio teen. Because Saulny-Forrest left home voluntarily after an argument, his case does not meet that bar, even though Texas law still requires officers to act immediately.
Under Article 63.009 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, police departments are barred from imposing any waiting period before taking a missing child report, and missing minors must be entered into the National Crime Information Center database right away, according to language cited by Justia Law. That rule exists in part to dispel the common misconception that families must wait 24 to 72 hours before officers will search for a missing teen.
Legal Risk for Anyone Sheltering a Runaway
Investigators also routinely remind the public about the legal consequences of hiding a runaway. Under Texas Penal Code § 25.06, knowingly sheltering or concealing a minor under 18 without notifying parents or law enforcement counts as harboring a runaway child, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine, according to a legal explainer from Saputo Toufexis.
Beyond phone tips and email leads, local agencies have leaned on broader public outreach tools to track down missing teens. In May 2025, Clear Channel Outdoor partnered with the Texas Center for the Missing and San Antonio-area law enforcement to launch a statewide digital billboard campaign, generating millions of impressions displaying photos of missing local youth, per PR Newswire.
Saulny-Forrest's case adds to a string of recent missing-teen searches across the San Antonio area, including an AMBER Alert in Leon Valley just two days earlier and searches for teens including Ruben Paz, Trinity Langford and Alyssa Canul over the past several months. Anyone with information on Kingston Saulny-Forrest's whereabouts is urged to contact the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.
