A 21-year-old Ames man was reported missing Feb. 12 after family and friends have not been able to contact him since Jan. 31.

Thomas Dooley was reported missing by his father, said Geoff Huff, investigations commander for Ames Police Department.

Dooley, who was not an Iowa State student, lived off Florida Avenue in West Ames.

“We have this all the time, where parents call us and say I haven’t been able to get ahold of my kid for three days,” Huff said. “We go out and knock on a couple of doors and we find them. This one, it’s been two weeks. We’ve got roommates that haven’t seen him. He hasn’t called anybody we can find.”

The former girlfriend of the missing man said she may know where and why he disappeared.

“I’m the reason that he’s missing. I’m his ex-girlfriend. I pressed charges against him for domestic abuse and a whole bunch of stuff,” said Makenzie Hobson, junior in pre-business at Iowa State. “He kind of went MIA after I told his dad.”

Hobson said she and Dooley had dated for 11 months prior to his disappearance.

Although Ames police remain unsure of Dooley’s whereabouts, Hobson said she believes Dooley is in Arizona and that he disappeared of his own volition. She said she last saw Dooley on Jan. 31 after she drove him to his home  .

“Right after I dropped him off, I went and pressed charges,” Hobson said. “He knows he’s in a lot of trouble.”

Hobson did not want to detail the charges because she said they are still pending.

“He always said, ‘if we weren’t together I would be gone. I would move to Arizona and I would never tell my family.’ He’s kind of good at just up and leaving and finding new places to live,” Hobson said. “We didn’t leave on very good terms.”

The Ames police department asks anyone with information about Dooley to call them at 515-239-5133.