Mississippi authorities have located a 13-year-old Texas girl who went missing in February after a couple saw her walking along a highway and contacted authorities.
Nobles explained that while the incident is similar in nature to trafficking, his office cannot charge Patton with trafficking because"there was no exchange" for money or other materials when Patton allegedly kidnapped the girl from Texas and transported her across state lines.
Perry County Sheriff Mitch Nobles praised a couple who saw the girl walking along Highway 98 across from Perry Central High School on Thursday and contacted authorities. The girl's parents reported her missing out of Houston in February,"and there was no word from her until we located her Thursday morning," the sheriff said.Nobles added that he wants to"make the community aware, especially young females, to be very careful and not put themselves in this kind of situation" by getting into strangers' vehicles.
"It's definitely a dangerous situation for a missing 13-year-old from Texas to end up all the way over here in Mississippi," he said. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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