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# Gravesend Teenager Missing Since October
- URL: https://bklyner.com/39015-bensonhurst/
- Published: 2016-11-08T15:34:34.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-08T15:34:34.000Z
- Author: Hannah Frishberg
- Tags: Bensonhurst, Police & Fire, Western Brooklyn, 60th Precinct, missing person, #wp

![Photo via DCPI (L), image via Google Maps (R)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Untitled-1.jpg)

Jiening Cao, photo via DCPI (L), the street Cao lives on, image via Google Maps (R)

Have you seen this boy?

The police are seeking public assistance locating a 17-year-old male who was reported missing on Monday, according to the DCPI.

The minor, Jiening Cao of Gravesend, lives in a NYCHA development in the area.

Cao was last seen leaving his home at 6 a.m. on Monday, October 17\. According to the police, he was heading to Flushing, Queens to meet up with friends.

He is described as being 6 feet tall and 125lbs with a thin build, light complexion, brown eyes, and black hair. He was last seen wearing a black sports jacket, black jeans, a gray shirt, black sneakers, and black reading glasses. He has a tattoo of a dragon on his right hand.

Chinese news site [Toutiao ABC](http://www.toutiaoabc.com/index.php?app=news&act=view&nid=177235&ref=bklyner.com) notes that a 17-year-old Chinese-born young man named Jiening Cao was reported to have been involved in a tax scheme involving the fraudulent payment and rebate of close to 3,000 yuan at a Sunset Park check cashing spot on September 29.

Anyone with information in regards to this missing is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at [WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM](http://a056-crimestoppers.nyc.gov/crimestoppers/public/index.html?ref=bklyner.com) or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.