SALEM, Mo. (AP) - Authorities in south-central Missouri’s Dent County say a 19-year-old man is in custody after being found with a 13-year-old girl whose disappearance led to an Amber Alert.
The Dent County Sheriff’s Office says the 19-year-old and the Salem girl “were in a continuing romantic relationship that began on the internet.”
Authorities issued the alert Tuesday night after they say the girl got into a truck with the 19-year-old and one of his relatives. She had said she was going to a friend’s home but never showed up, so authorities probed her disappearance as a possible abduction.
Dent County deputies and state troopers found the girl and the 19-year-old about 6:40 a.m. Wednesday at a home in Bunker in neighboring Reynolds County.
The girl was questioned and released to her parents.
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