Pasco Sheriff’s deputies are searching for Dominic Bartelloni, 14, who was last seen in the Heather Street area of New Port Richey on Tuesday. The sheriff’s office post says he was last spotted sometime between 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. and describes him as missing or a runaway. It gives his height as about 5 feet and his weight as 115 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
The post does not explain the circumstances of his disappearance or provide information about where he may have gone. It also does not establish an outcome for the search. Those details remain unknown from the announcement.
What other cases and national figures can—and can’t—show
A separate Pasco Sheriff’s Office notice says Christina Roiland and Lizvette Rodriguez, last seen Oct. 7 in the Patti Lane area of Dade City, were found safe. That case is a local example of a missing-person search with a reported safe outcome, but it involved different people and circumstances; it does not indicate what will happen in Bartelloni’s case.
Nationally, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children said it assisted law enforcement with 29,568 missing-child cases in 2024 and helped bring 91% of those children home. Those figures cover cases NCMEC assisted with, not every missing-child report, and cannot establish the circumstances or likely outcome of an individual search in Pasco County.
