Little is known about a 42-year-old man who has been missing since October 2009 -- like whether Leonel Lopez is even his real name.
Cited nine times between July 2003 and September 2006 for various traffic violations, the man never produced a valid driver’s license for Lincoln police.
So police can’t be sure he's 42. Or whether the name he gave police -- Leonel Lopez -- is real.
“That’s the name that he used,†said Lincoln Police Sgt. Luke Wilke. “I would be surprised if that was his correct name.â€
What police know is that in June 2010, his girlfriend reported him missing, saying she had last heard from him the previous November. She told police she thought he might have left for a job in Kansas in October 2009.
Despite a lack of leads about the man's whereabouts, police have continued searching for him. Wilke said he can’t find any recent information about Lopez using the identity he provided to police.
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Lopez said he was born Sept. 5, 1973, and gave two apartment addresses, one at 18th and M streets and one at 23rd and Lynn streets.
Wilke said he has assigned various investigators to the case.
“A fresh set of eyes tends to benefit things,†he said. “We have very little to go on.â€
He said he does have a fingerprint Lopez gave for a traffic ticket, and he's plugged that into law enforcement databases to try to find Lopez.
“He doesn’t have anything in there, and that’s unusual,†he said. “It would be nice to get it resolved.â€