Phoenix Police are asking for help locating 15-year-old Matthew Garcia-Jansing. The department’s missing juvenile notice says his friends and family are concerned for his safety.
Anyone with information about Garcia-Jansing’s whereabouts is asked to call Phoenix Police at 602-262-6151. The notice directs people to report tips by phone rather than through social-media comments or direct messages.
What national figures can—and cannot—show
National missing-person statistics offer scale, but they do not resolve questions about an individual search. The FBI’s 2025 NCIC report counted 88,093 active missing-person records nationwide as of December 31, 2025; 21,487 involved juveniles under 18. These are national active records, not an Arizona-specific count or a measure of how many cases were resolved.
A separate measure comes from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which reported assisting law enforcement with 29,568 missing-children cases in 2024 and helping bring 91% of those children home. Those figures cover cases NCMEC assisted with; they are not Phoenix Police reports or FBI NCIC records, and they do not indicate an outcome in Garcia-Jansing’s case…