Police searching for missing teen

UPDATE: Aaron Hawthorne has been located.

The Pinehurst Police Department is searching for a missing juvenile and is asking for the public’s help in locating 16-year-old Aaron Hawthorne.

Hawthorne is described as 5’3″ tall, 120 pounds, and has blue eyes and dark brown hair.

In a social media post, the police department said he was last seen on Jan. 10 leaving Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst on foot.

He was wearing a brown coat and gray sweatpants.

Please call the police station’s tip line at 910-295-1654 if you have any information.