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LASEN COUNTY, Calif. (KTTV) – Deputies in Lassen County to the north California have identified a man who had been missing for 25 years, the department announced, after spending months unidentified Los Angeles County hospitals.

In a Facebook post, the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office said they received a call last week from a woman who thought she had seen a photo of her long-lost brother in a USA Today story. The story, published in May, was about a man who had spent a month at St. Francis Medical Center Lynwoodbut the staff had been unable to identify him. According to the article, the man was found on April 15 in South LA.

A GoFundMe campaign reportedly organized by the man’s sister, Marcella Nasseri, identified the man as her brother Tommy.

“My little brother, Tommy, has been missing since August 1999,” Nasseri wrote in the GoFundMe campaign. ‘He disappeared without a trace. Even his vehicle was never found.”

A Lassen County sheriff’s deputy contacted St. Francis after receiving the call. Hospital staff told him that the man had now been transferred to another hospital. After confirming the man was still there, the deputy contacted police Los Angeles Police Department. An LAPD detective went to the hospital to fingerprint the man, and the fingerprints came back as a match to Tommy.

Nasseri said she was “delighted” to find Tommy alive. “All this time I was looking for unidentified remains,” she wrote. Now she said she is working to get her brother transferred from LA County to Lassen County. Lassen County is located just northwest of Reno, Nevada.