UPDATE: Family Provides Update – John Michael Garrett Jr., 42, of St. Inigoes Found SAFE

November 4, 2020

UPDATE 11/04/2020 at 1:30 p.m: The family has provided the following update.

“John Garrett Jr. Has been located. Now the process of helping him to heal and reconnect with the family unit is paramount.”

Our family was overwhelmed with the amount of tips and well wishes that we received from across the country. Those tips lead the Maryland State police and our family to locate John after six days missing

My brother is well loved in the community and rightly so. In the immediate future we ask for some space and patience as we work to strengthen our family unit and sort out what happened. Today, we are reveling in gratitude for life and love and family.

I would like to thank the Maryland State police and the Calvert County Sheriff’s Department for their assistance in this matter and for going above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that everyone was kept safe and that common sense prevailed. At the same time everybody’s rights under the law were protected, due process was given great respect, and The care of the individuals involved even played a factor.

Thank you all so much for your help. Hug your loved ones tight. Warmest regards and God bless you. Please like and share so that the algorithm spreads this far and wide as it did the report that he was missing. Many thousands of people we’re rooting for John and we need to let them know that he has been located and is safe in the arms of his family.”

UPDATE 11/04/2020 – More Photos Added: On Tuesday, November 3, 2020 Trooper J. Reid of the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack took a report for a missing person, John Michael Garrett II, age 42, 6 feet 3 inches tall, weighing 200 lbs.

Garrett was last seen on Thursday, October 29, 2020, wearing a gray T-shirt, gray sweatpants, black crocs and possibly earrings in both ears. He was leaving his address in the 17700 block of Lawrence St, St. Inigoes, MD operating a black 2017 Toyota Camry bearing Maryland registration 3EA8864.

Garrett advised his landlord that he was going to Ridge, MD to purchase cigarettes and never returned. His brother, father, and landlord have all made multiple attempts to contact and locate Garrett with negative results. Garrett did not show up to work yesterday Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, which his family stated was very unusual.

If anyone has any information in reference to Garrett’s whereabouts or information in reference to this investigation please contact Tpr. Reid #7215 at (301) 475-8955 or by email [email protected] . Please reference case number 20-MSP-040885.The family of John Garrett Jr., reports the 42-year-old St.Inigoes man has been missing since sometime on Friday, October 30, 2020.

11/03/2020: John Michael Garrett Jr., 42 years old, lives in St. Inigoes Maryland, and frequently traveled the corridor between St. Inigoes and Prince Frederick where he works at The Arc of Southern Maryland in Prince Frederick, Calvert County.

John recently lost a lot of weight and may be wearing loose fitting sweats in which he had been doing yard work.

He told his roommate he was running to the store to get cigarettes, from the road he allegedly made a cryptic phone call back to his roommate saying he was going to care for his sick grandmother – she was not sick and never saw him – since then, his large circle of friends, family, and colleagues have been unable to find him.

Family members have been searching through the weekend, with a missing persons report being filed on Monday November 2, 2020, when John did not show up to work.

He drives a black Toyota Camry four door sedan bearing a tag number of 3EA8864.

Any tips are welcome. Call trooper J. Reid with the Maryland State Police, 301-475-8955 or email [email protected]