Leads sought on missing man

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Police are renewing their request for information about a man missing for almost nine years.

Police are renewing their request for information about a man missing for almost nine years.

Willie Dennis Eriksson was last seen on the evening hours of Nov. 7, 2007, getting into a car at a general store in Mountain View.

Police have not ruled out foul play in his disappearance.

Eriksson, who was 42 when he went missing, is described as Caucasian, 5 feet, 9 inches tall, 165 pounds with blue eyes, short gray or partially graying hair and a goatee.

Originally from Malibu, Calif., Eriksson was a surfer and carpenter who’d been living on Kawiki Road in Hilo and had been on the Big Island about a year when he vanished.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts or disappearance is asked to call the police nonemergency line at 935-3311, Crime Stoppers at 961-8300 or contact Detective Tuckloy Aurello at 961-2385 or tuckloy.aurello@hawaiicounty.gov.