VALDOSTA, Ga. ( WALA ) - Police have arrested a 44-year-old man who they say posed as a 16-year-old on social media to lure a 13-year-old girl from Mobile County to run away and visit him in Georgia.

The Valdosta Police Department said law enforcement officials on Thursday went to a Valdosta residence where they found the runaway child from Alabama along with Scott Daniel Davis, the man they say lured her to his home.

Officials said the girl had last been seen getting into a vehicle that was eventually spotted in Davis’ driveway in Georgia. When VPD detectives arrived at the residence, they found Davis and the missing juvenile in the back yard.

Davis was detained, and the girl was safely recovered, police said.

Detectives determined that the juvenile had been communicating with Davis

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