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DUNDEE, Fla. – A missing<\/a> teenage girl has been recovered, and a registered sex offender has been arrested after she was discovered in a sex offender\u2019s closet in Polk County<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n According to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the agency was contacted by the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Monday because investigators believed a runaway teen was with a man in Dundee.<\/p>\n Polk County detectives went to 30-year-old Alexis Diaz-Toledo\u2019s home to look for the missing 17-year-old girl.<\/p>\n Diaz-Toledo, according to investigators, denied knowing where the teen was and said he had not seen her for a few days.<\/p>\n Detectives said he initially refused to let them into his home.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n However, investigators said they determined that Diaz-Toledo violated the terms of his sexual offender registration by not reporting two vehicles being kept at his home.<\/p>\n When detectives eventually searched Diaz-Toledo\u2019s home, they said they found the missing teen hiding in his closet.<\/p>\n The teen was returned home and Diaz Toledo was arrested and charged with:<\/p>\n Sex offender fail to comply with registration requirementsInterfering with custody of a minorSheltering a minor without notifying parentFalse information to LEO in a missing person investigation <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Diaz-Toledo has been a registered sex offender since his conviction in 2014 for lewd, lascivious battery on a victim between 12-15 years old.<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information provided by the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n Polk County<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Missing Persons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Polk County Sheriff’s Office DUNDEE, Fla. – A missing teenage girl has been recovered, and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,6888,115,7153,628],"class_list":["post-231413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-polk","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}