A 16-year-old from Cleveland has not been seen in weeks, and authorities are still hoping someone in the community can help bring Amauri Adams home. Adams has been missing since August 20, and as of this week, no update on their whereabouts has been made public.
The case was highlighted by FOX 8 News, which confirmed Adams is 16 years old and has been missing from Cleveland since August 20. The station is asking anyone with information to call 216-621-1234.
A Case FOX 8 Is Actively Pushing to Solve
The station's report notes that FOX 8 is working with Amanda Berry to help find missing people, a partnership the outlet is using to keep cases like Adams's in front of the public, according to FOX 8 Cleveland WJW. Beyond confirming Adams's age and the timeline of the disappearance, the report does not detail the circumstances surrounding when or how Adams went missing.
The scale of missing-child cases in Ohio is reflected in the state’s 2024 figures: authorities recorded 16,404 reports of missing children, and 15,834 children—96.5% of those reported missing—were recovered safely by year’s end. The totals include a range of circumstances and do not describe Adams’s case specifically. Ohio’s annual accounting is based on records entered by law enforcement into the federal National Crime Information Center database, as explained in the Ohio Attorney General’s 2024 missing-children report.
No description of Adams's appearance, clothing, or the agency leading the investigation had been made public in connection with this report, as reported by FOX 8 Cleveland WJW. Anyone who may have seen Adams or has any information about their location is urged to call the tip line at 216-621-1234.
A missing-child report does not automatically trigger an AMBER Alert. Ohio’s system requires law enforcement to confirm an abduction, determine that the child faces a credible threat of immediate serious harm or death, and have enough descriptive information for an alert to help locate the child; authorities also generally must determine the child was not a runaway. Those thresholds explain why an alert is a distinct tool—not a measure of whether a child is missing—under the state’s AMBER Alert criteria.
