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Missing Arkansas teen found in man's apt.

NORCROSS, Ga.,None — Police found a missing Arkansas teen in a man's Norcross apartment on Christmas Eve.

According to a Gwinnett police report, officers were sent to a unit at the Sinclair Apartments on Saturday to look for a 14-year-old. Police said at the apartment, the girl told them she was a runaway but was ready to go home.

The girl said she met 20-year-old Felipe Nunez-Martinez online but told him she was 17, police said. They said the two began exchanging text messages, and she told him to take her away from her home in Hope, Ark.

Police said Nunez-Martinez picked up the teen and brought her to a motel in Arkansas Dec. 22. The girl initially told officers they only kissed but later, both admitted to having sex, police said. Police said they were told the sexual contact continued at Nunez-Martinez's apartment for two more days until the girl told her family she wanted to leave.

Nunez-Martinez was arrested and charged with statutory rape and interference with custody.