Big Island police are trying to locate a 10-year-old girl who failed to return home yesterday.

Shellsea Gouveia-Asuncion of Holualoa is 4-feet-5-inches tall, weighs about 90 pounds and has short black hair. She was last seen riding a blue BMX mongoose bicycle on the Old Mamalahoa Highway in the Holualoa town area.

The girl was wearing a yellow SpongeBob sleeveless shirt and blue jeans.

Anyone with information can call case investigator Walter Ah Mow at 326-4646, extension 265; the police department's non-emergency line at 935-3311, or Big Island CrimeStoppers at 961-8300 in Hilo or 329-8181 in Kona.