Foul play not suspected in disappearance of Fort Bragg 15-year-old Roy Mora

FORT BRAGG, CA., 12/17/24 — Fort Bragg police have listened to a psychic, read hours of social media posts, and gone to experts to have cell phone data obtained by a search warrant analyzed. They have talked to Mendocino Transit Authority bus drivers and reviewed footage of people riding on MTA buses.

None of it has given them information to get closer to finding 15-year-old Roy Mora, who was reported missing on Dec. 8 by a parent after he did not return home following the Dec. 7 Lighted Truck Parade in downtown Fort Bragg. In the last confirmed sighting, Mora was walking south on the Noyo River Bridge at 8:30 p.m., following the parade. A surveillance camera captured the image, police said. His cell phone either went dead or was turned off that morning between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. The phone’s location when it went dark was determined to be behind the fire station on Main Street, near the entrance to the Central Coastal Trail. A fenced-in path runs between Skunk Train property on both sides out to the trail. To the north is Glass Beach. To the immediate south is the oceanfront city sewer plant. At times, the parking lot where the cell phone last broadcast is also utilized by the homeless for car camping.