A teenager reported missing out of Dallas was found locked in a shed in Lexington, North Carolina, officials said. One arrest has been made in the case.
Authorities said the teen had been chatting with the suspect on social media, where he “enticed her to leave her home.”A Dallas teen previously reported missing was found Friday in North Carolina.locked in an outbuilding after working with the FBI to track a suspect in her abduction, Davidson County Sheriff Richie Simmons said in a Monday news conference.Authorities had determined the teen was communicating with an male adult on social media before she went missing, he said.
“The content of the chat was consistent with grooming and enticement, and he enticed her to leave the home where he picked her up in the area,” Simmons said. Law enforcement identified Jorge Comacho as a suspect in the case, according to Simmons, and the sheriff’s office conducted a traffic stop that eventually led them to finding the teen in a shed locked from the outside. The property is in Southmont, North Carolina, about an hour northeast of Charlotte.
Comacho, 34, is facing multiple charges including felony abduction of a child, felonious restraint of a child, one count of indecent liberties with a child, two counts of statutory rape, two counts of statutory sexual offense with a child under 15 and felony human trafficking.Dallas police confirmed the teen was located in North Carolina but declined to provide additional details on the case, including how long ago the child was reported missing, citing the ongoing investigation.
. Lana Ferguson joined The Dallas Morning News after reporting in South Carolina's Lowcountry for The Island Packet & Beaufort Gazette newspapers. She graduated from the University of Mississippi where she studied journalism and Southern studies. She's a Virginia native but her work has taken her all over the U.S., southern Africa, and Sri Lanka.
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