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CNN) -- A 12-year-old Florida girl missing since Monday was found "alive and
well" Wednesday night in Easley, South Carolina, and a 25-year-old
acquaintance of her brothers was taken into custody, police said.
The two were found about 8:30 p.m. at a Wal-Mart, about 10 miles from
Greenville in northwest South Carolina, according to Bradenton, Florida,
Police Chief Mike Radzilowski.
The Amber Alert issued for Margarita Aguilar-Lopez was canceled, and she was
expected to return to Florida on Thursday. Her parents live in Mexico.
"We're happy that we recovered her alive and well, and we've made one arrest
so far," Radzilowski said.
The police chief said details were sketchy, and it was still unclear whether
Aguilar-Lopez was kidnapped or left Florida willingly with Antonio
Paulino-Perez, who was arrested on a Florida warrant charging him with
interfering with parental custodial rights, a third-degree felony.
Aguilar-Lopez was staying in a Bradenton motel with her two older brothers,
who told police they last saw her Monday night, when they left her and two
toddlers in the care of Paulino-Perez while they went to buy liquor, said
Bradenton Police Maj. J.J. Lewis.
When the brothers returned about 30 minutes later, the two young girls were
alone. Lewis said they were unharmed. All involved in the case are
undocumented immigrants who work on farms, he said.
Bradenton is south of Tampa Bay on Florida's Gulf Coast.
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