Pictures of Sammy Mercado are up around Sanger, including at the spot he visited every day – the Chuck Wagon restaurant.
His family and friends posted the flyers.
“Hopefully if they have seen him to call the sheriff's department as soon as possible with any information. Any lead will help,” said family friend Sylvia Garza.
Sammy was last seen at a marijuana garden at Annadale and
Investigators are looking for 21-year-old Ernie Chanmany He’s connected to the marijuana garden.
Two trucks that belong to Chanmany were found Thursday abandoned in an orchard west of
Sammy’s disappearance has frightened others his age and their parents.
“I'm only 20 and I'm alone a lot at work or if I work late or something. And then what if something... There are things out there just like that. Teenagers, it doesn't matter who it is, you go missing or something happens to you,” said Mandy Rodriguez of Kingsburg.
“I feel sorry for the parents because I have three kids and I wouldn't want that to happen to me or anybody else,” said Mandy’s mother Irene Rodriguez.
Sammy spent Easter with Sylvia Garza and her family, just days before he disappeared.
“We just saw him and we were going Easter egg hunting and it's hard because it hasn't been that long since we saw him. And we just want Sammy back,” said Garza.
If you have any information on Sammy Mercado’s disappearance or Ernie Chanmany’s whereabouts, you’re asked to contact the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department at