Missing Florida teen found after routine traffic stop in North Carolina: Police

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Deputies with the Nash County Police Department arrested Alejandro Hernandez Vazquez, 40, after realizing his 16-year-old female passenger had been reported missing by Florida’s Coral Springs Police Department only five hours earlier."It was not like she was bound in the car and things of that nature, but you know, it's a young 16-year-old and a grown man, and he's manipulated her and carried her across this country,” Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone told ABC affiliate WTVD.

Deputies initially pulled over Alejandro Hernandez Vazquez at midnight on July 4 after he committed a traffic violation in a 2016 Audi SUV on Interstate 95. The release noted that the deputies "developed reasonable suspicion to believe that criminal activity was afoot" after asking a series of routine questions.Deputies later learned that Vazquez’s 16-year-old female passenger was reported missing by her family five hours earlier, according to the release.

"The suspect was not known to the family, nor did he have permission to transport the juvenile across state lines," police said.Nash County Sheriff's OfficeChildren account for over 30% of the missing persons in the United States, with 337,195 reports of missing young people entered into the

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