BY CULTURE BEAT
A sheriff from North Carolina has a chilling warning for parents everywhere after a 16 year-old girl was rescued from a car during a “routine” traffic stop.
Police Rescue Teenage Girl
Fox News reported that police in North Carolina were carrying out a routine traffic stop on the Fourth of July when they noticed that the female passenger in the vehicle resembled a 16 year-old girl who had been reported missing in Florida hours before.
A press release states that after pulling over a white Audi with Florida license plates on I-95 just after midnight for a traffic violation, police asked the 40 year-old driver Alejandro Hernandez Vazquez some “routine” questions and “developed reasonable suspicion to believe that criminal activity was afoot.”
It was only when Vazquez finally gave police consent to search his vehicle that officers realized that the 16 year-old passenger had been reported missing by the Coral Springs Police Department in Florida just five hours before.
When questioned by police, the teenager admitted who she was and told officers that she had met Vazquez online. She has since been returned to her family, who said that they had never met Vazquez, and that they did not give him permission to drive the teenager across state lines.
Vazquez, who is a resident of Miami, Florida, has since been charged with the following crimes:
- Abduction of child
- Felony possession of synthetic cannabinoid
- Possession of marijuana paraphernalia
- Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
Vazquez is currently being held at the Nash County Detention Center after being booked on $505,000 bond.
