Following a three-hour search for a missing 17-year-old boy with autism on Sunday, August 11, the walking youth was spotted by a passing motorist near the intersection of Hattertown Road and Eden Hill Road, about 3½ miles from his Winton Farm Road home, police said.

The boy was checked by a Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps crew and determined to be unharmed, police said.

In seeking to find the boy, police posted descriptive information on the missing youth on their website and Facebook page so that anyone who spotted him could report it to police. In the posts, residents were asked to look around their properties, including any sheds or outbuildings, and in any bodies of water on their properties.

More than a dozen people, many of them police officers, were involved in August 11 search. Police were alerted of the missing boy at about noon.

Police spokesman Lieutenant Aaron Bahamonde said that besides police, Botsford volunteer firefighters, and two tracking dogs were called to aid in the search. A drone also was used. Newtown Underwater Search and Rescue was mobilized because the last time the youth went missing in 2016, he was found playing in a pond near his home.