EAST RIDGE, Tenn. \u2014 UPDATE: Authorities in Lee County, Florida, say the man found with a missing teen girl in East Ridge after a vehicle was flagged by license plate readers is a Tennessee resident.<\/p>\n
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office says evidence from their investigation into the 13-year-old’s disappearance led them to track 28-year-old Michah Mosier. <\/p>\n
LCSO says the girl had been missing from her home in Fort Myers, Florida, since September 18. <\/p>\n
We are working to determine where specifically Mosier is from. <\/p>\n
He is currently in the Hamilton County Jail.<\/p>\n
Depend on us to keep you updated as we continue to learn more.<\/p>\n
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A license plate reader alert allowed East Ridge and Chattanooga Police to help the FBI find a missing Florida teen on Monday. <\/p>\n
ERPD says FBI investigators sent an Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) alert that a vehicle carrying a 13-year-old girl from Lee County, Florida, had been flagged in East Ridge.<\/p>\n
The license plate was detected at an intersection near an I-75 exit ramp.<\/p>\n
ERPD says within minutes, officers from East Ridge and Chattanooga were searching the area.<\/p>\n
They were able to safely and quickly stop the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Inside, officers found the missing girl and a 28-year-old man who was not related to her. <\/p>\n
The man was arrested without incident. <\/p>\n
East Ridge Police Chief Clint Uselton says this case is a reminder of how impactful ALPR technology can be for law enforcement.<\/p>\n
“Within minutes of identifying the suspect vehicle in our community, the immediate, coordinated response of our officers led to a missing child being safely removed from a dangerous situation, Chief Uselton says.<\/p>\n
The multi-state investigation remains active. <\/p>\n
Depend on us to keep you updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST RIDGE, Tenn. \u2014 UPDATE: Authorities in Lee County, Florida, say the man found with a missing teen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-414167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414167","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=414167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}