Police are still searching for a teen who went missing in Ocean County over the weekend.

Joseph Johnson, 15, has been missing since Sunday afternoon, Manchester Township Police said in a statement earlier this week.

Rumors circulated on Thursday that the teen had been found. In a later post , police said those reports were untrue and that they were still looking for him.

The boy was last seen at 1 p.m. on Sunday on Laurel Place in the Whiting section of Manchester Township. At the time of his disappearance, he was wearing a black sweatshirt, black pants and white and blue sneakers and was carrying a black backpack.

The Manchester Township Police Department is asking anyone with information about the teen’s whereabouts to call its headquarters at 732-657-6111.

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