\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 17-year-old runaway from Orange County was found hiding in the bedroom closet of a registered sex offender, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The sheriff\u2019s office said it received information on Monday about the teen, who was believed to be with a man in Dundee. The man was identified as 30-year-old Alexis Diaz-Toledo, who is a registered sex offender, according to PCSO. When detectives arrived at Diaz-Toledo\u2019s home, they said he denied knowing any details about the teen\u2019s whereabouts. While investigating, deputies said they discovered Diaz-Toledo had violated the terms of his sexual offender registration by failing to report two vehicles kept at his residence. After searching the home, deputies said they found the 17-year-old girl hiding in Diaz-Toledo\u2019s bedroom closet. She was returned home, and Diaz-Toledo was arrested. PCSO said Diaz-Toledo was charged with: Sex offender failure to comply with registration requirements.Interfering with the custody of a minor.Sheltering a minor without notifying a parent.Providing false information to law enforcement in a missing person investigation. Deputies said Diaz-Toledo has been a registered sex offender since a conviction in 2014.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tPOLK COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A 17-year-old runaway from Orange County was found hiding in the bedroom closet of a registered sex offender, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office said it received information on Monday about the teen, who was believed to be with a man in Dundee. <\/p>\n
The man was identified as 30-year-old Alexis Diaz-Toledo, who is a registered sex offender, according to PCSO. <\/p>\n
When detectives arrived at Diaz-Toledo\u2019s home, they said he denied knowing any details about the teen\u2019s whereabouts. <\/p>\n
While investigating, deputies said they discovered Diaz-Toledo had violated the terms of his sexual offender registration by failing to report two vehicles kept at his residence. <\/p>\n
After searching the home, deputies said they found the 17-year-old girl hiding in Diaz-Toledo\u2019s bedroom closet. <\/p>\n
She was returned home, and Diaz-Toledo was arrested. <\/p>\n
PCSO said Diaz-Toledo was charged with: <\/p>\n
Sex offender failure to comply with registration requirements.Interfering with the custody of a minor.Sheltering a minor without notifying a parent.Providing false information to law enforcement in a missing person investigation. <\/p>\n
Deputies said Diaz-Toledo has been a registered sex offender since a conviction in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old runaway from Orange County was found hiding in the bedroom closet of a registered sex offender,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[103621,4561,103620,15439,320,4211,2391,103623,217,660,103622,139,141,140,50211,3034,2631,1953],"class_list":{"0":"post-231551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-closet","9":"tag-deputy","10":"tag-diaz-toledo","11":"tag-dundee","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-information","14":"tag-man","15":"tag-missing-person-investigation","16":"tag-monday","17":"tag-office","18":"tag-orange-county-teen","19":"tag-orlando","20":"tag-orlando-headlines","21":"tag-orlando-news","22":"tag-pcso","23":"tag-sex-offender","24":"tag-sheriff","25":"tag-teen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231551","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=231551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}