A 13-year-old girl has been found safe, and an adult male has been arrested following a statewide search on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
According to the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office, the child, who was reported missing from Keithville, Louisiana, on Thursday, was found safe on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
An Amber Alert was issued for the child on Thursday afternoon. Prior to her disappearance, she was last seen at a residence in Keithville at 2:30 a.m. on Thursday and was believed to be in Allen, Texas.<\/p>\n
Police searched for Daniel Mejia, an 18-year-old Hispanic male, in connection with the abduction of the child.<\/p>\n
Officials said shortly after the Amber Alert was issued, investigators received tips that led authorities to a vehicle they believed to have been used in the abduction.<\/p>\n
Investigators made contact with an individual who confirmed he drove Mejia to a residence where the child was taken without parental consent, and gave investigators an address where the child and Mejia could be found, officials said.<\/p>\n
According to officials, Allen police officers responded to the address and successfully located both individuals.<\/p>\n
Officials said Mejia was arrested by the Collin County Sheriff’s Office and charged with harboring a runaway.<\/p>\n
The 13-year-old is safe and currently in the custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services while arrangements are made for her return to her parents, officials said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old girl has been found safe, and an adult male has been arrested following a statewide search…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1242,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-284391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-allen","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}