The Pasco Sheriff's Office is seeking information about 16-year-old Anthony Vargas-Smith, who was last seen Wednesday in the Madison Street area of New Port Richey. The agency is treating his disappearance as a missing or runaway case.
Deputies describe Vargas-Smith as 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing around 140 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, according to a Pasco Sheriff's Office Facebook post. At the time he went missing, he was wearing a dark blue long-sleeved crew-neck shirt, baggy blue jeans and white sneakers, per the same post.
How to Help Locate Anthony Vargas-Smith
The sheriff's office is asking the public to report any sightings or information that could help locate the teenager. For non-emergencies, residents can call the agency's line at 727-847-8102, option 7, according to the department's contact page on pascosheriff.com.
Tips can also be submitted online, as the sheriff's office accepts reports through pascosheriff.com/tips, according to Pasco Sheriff's Office, a detail the same Facebook post notes. No further details about Vargas-Smith's disappearance or his current status have been released.
How Missing-Person Records Classify Runaways
The FBI figures available here do not provide a Florida-specific count of missing-person reports involving juveniles. Nationally, among missing-person records entered into NCIC in 2025 for which the optional circumstances field was used, 94.9% were coded as runaway; the field was used for 48% of entries, according to the FBI.
