A 13-year-old boy has been located safe and sound by police this afternoon after a short time in the bush in Omanawa.
Senior Sergeant Mark Holmes said "a young fella had run off into the bush" from a nearby home shortly after midday and was called in as a missing person.
A number of police searched the bush area with police dogs and located the boy not long after, he said.
A police man found him walking home safe and well.