A British runner who came to New York to participate in Sunday’s marathon, but disappeared before the big race began, has been found safe in the Bronx, police said Thursday.
Cops located Jordan Butler in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx on Wednesday. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital for evaluation, police said.
Butler, 40, was last seen leaving the Westin New York Times Square hotel about 4:45 a.m. Sunday, officials said. The marathon kicked off at 8 a.m. that day on Staten Island.
It was not immediately clear how Butler ended up in the Bronx or what he was doing during the three days after his disappearance.
Butler, who lives in North Willenhall, England, was in the U.S. to participate in the New York City Marathon, officials said. Nearly 60,000 people completed the race on Sunday, marking the second consecutive year New York broke the world record for the largest marathon ever.
In an unrelated incident during Sunday’s race, Queens cops located Giacomo “Jack” Campione, a 52-year-old man with cognitive disabilities who had been missing for two days.
Campione was was dressed in a Halloween costume when he disappeared Friday morning after he got separated from his housemates in Flushing, Queens, after stepping off a Q13 bus.
The Long Island resident spent the next two nights sleeping on the sidewalk in Queens before he suffered a fall and was taken to an area hospital as marathoners made their way through the borough, officials said.
He was ultimately reunited with his loved ones, cops said.
