The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued an Amber Alert on Thursday evening for a 17-year-old. But at noon on Friday, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said the teen remained missing but that the original claim appeared to be not true.

A short time later, deputies announced the teen had been located.

FDLE said the teen might have been taken by or was in the company of four unknown males, but determined that was likely not true.

"Detectives obtained information and collected evidence that are unsupportive of the initially reported facts," MCSO said in an update on Facebook .

Instead, MCSO believes the teen left the incident location on a black bicycle with a red and grey tent, which he purchased at Walmart on SW 19th Avenue Road, in Ocala. This content is imported from Facebo

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