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Updated at 11 a.m. July 7, 2014

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Family members said Sunday that a teenager who went missing on the eve of his graduation from Poway High School has been found. But why he vanished for nearly a month has not been revealed.

Atticus VanArsdale, 18, had not been seen by his family since about 9 p.m. June 11, according to sheriff’s officials. The Poway High senior failed to show up at school for a graduation practice June 12.

A Facebook page was created to help in the search for VanArsdale, and Sunday a note was posted by Sammee VanArsdale that “Atticus has been found and is on his way home. Please give us time to work through this time with our family, and our precious son. Thank you a thousand times over for your help and support.”

Pomerado News reported Sunday that VanArsdale was found safe in Ventura County.

On Monday, sheriff’s Lt. Glenn Giannantonio told Times of San Diego that VanArsdale was found safe Friday and that the Sheriff’s Department contacted his family. Giannantonio wouldn’t say whether VanArsdale has returned home.

As an adult, VanArsdale can go wherever he wants and when he wants, Giannantonio said, adding: “We haven’t interviewed him” on his reason for leaving.

The Poway paper said: “Volunteers have been handing out flyers at locations along the [Sprinter rail] line, which runs from Oceanside to Escondido, according to the official Facebook site Help Find Atticus VanArsdale. … Anne Gavin of So-Cal Advocates of the Missing, posted on the Facebook page that her organization had 60 volunteers handing out 1,000 flyers along the Sprinter route and in the Poway area” the Saturday after his disappearance.

No signs of criminal involvement were seen in VanArsdale’s disappearance, which was being investigated as a “voluntary missing adult” case, Detective Todd Richards said.

Search-and-rescue personnel searched areas around the teen’s home and school with help from a sheriff’s helicopter crew.

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