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Oscar Fuentes Missing Person Case

Last seen in Los Angeles, California on Jan 12, 2019

Victim Details

Apr 24, 2025

Apr 24, 2025

Oscar

Fuentes

26

19

68 inches

120 lbs

Hispanic / Latino

Male

Jan 12, 2019

Los Angeles

California

Los Angeles County

Los Angeles

No

167522

Los Angeles Police Department- Adult Missing Persons Unit

Los Angeles

California

Los Angeles County

90012

100 West 1st Street, California

8772755273

Local

Law Enforcement

http://www.lapdonline.org/

201604144

2020-01-05

Los Angeles Police Department- Adult Missing Persons Unit

8443

Black

Brown

Brown

Yes

07/03/2026


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Oscar Fuentes was a 19-year-old Hispanic/Latino man from Los Angeles whose disappearance and death became entwined with one of the most significant federal racketeering cases ever brought against the MS-13 gang in Southern California. Public records in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System list him as a missing person from Los Angeles, with his date of last contact recorded as January 12, 2019. At that time, he was a young adult navigating instability and risk in the San Fernando ...
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Last Seen: Jan 12, 2019

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