Missing son is returned to kin

TWO PORT AUTHORITY police officers early Thursday helped reunite worried Bronx parents with their schizophrenic son, who had been missing for five days, officials said.

PAPD officers John Feliciano and Kevin LeClair, a rookie, came across the missing 21-year-old in lower Manhattan, near the 9/11 Memorial, at about 1: 30 a.m.

Mohammed Hossain’s parents and brother Arif, 27, were overjoyed that he had been found, but troubled that he has been having difficulty speaking.

“He was alive; that was a happy thing,” said Arif Hossain, 27. “We are happy, but we are also worried; he’s not talking, except for saying a few things.”

The relatives were also desperate to know where he was all that time.

“It was almost four or five days,” Arif said. “Where was he? How did he survive that long without food or water?”

When the cops approached Hossain, he seemed confused and appeared to need help, they said. He couldn’t speak, so they gave him a pen and paper and he was able to write out information with addresses in the Bronx.

Feliciano and LeClair then contacted the 52nd Precinct in the Bronx.

Hossain’s parents had gone there to report him missing on Monday, the day after he walked out of their home.

Feliciano and LeClair sent a photo of Hossain to the 52nd Precinct. Cops there compared the photo to the image of the missing man, and confirmed they were the same.

Hossain was taken to the hospital for a medical checkup. The 52nd Precinct cops called the family and told them to meet them at the hospital.

“Thankfully, the law enforcement partners came together and resolved this situation,” said Joe Pentangelo, a Port Authority police spokesman.

Arif Hossain said doctors told him his brother is physically fine, but fatigued, and needs time to recover.

“When I asked him what he did, he doesn’t remember anything,” he said. “I don’t want to put any kind of pressure on him now. When he feels better, I’m going to ask him what happened.”