Missing girl, 11, found in a motel room with the White 24-year-old man who 'abducted her after they met online playing Minecraft'
An 11-year-old girl who went missing from Florida has been found in a motel room in Georgia with a man accused of abducting her after they allegedly met online playing Minecraft.
Alice Amelia Johnson's parents reported her missing from their Orlando home about 9am Sunday after they went to wake her for church.
Florida's Orange County Sheriff's Office immediately issued an endangered runaway alert for the girl and started tracking her cell phone.
Her phone was eventually tracked to the Holiday Inn Express in Macon, Georgia on Sunday afternoon.
The FBI and Georgia's Bibb County Sheriff's deputies were brought in to rescue Alice.
Authorities found her inside one of the hotel rooms with 24-year-old John Peter Byrns at about 5pm.
Byrns, of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, was arrested and is being held by the FBI.
Alice's father, Steve Johnson, told authorities he last saw his daughter on Saturday night when she went to bed.
Police are yet to reveal how Alice and Byrns came to be in contact, or if anything may have happened to her.
It is also not clear how Alice went to Georgia.
Alice's father told WESH that they knew she had been playing Minecraft online with a person claiming to be a young woman from Illinois.
He said the pair had never met and he never thought Alice might have been in danger.
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