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Ashlee Buzzard, the mother of a missing 9-year-old girl, was arrested on an unrelated charge Friday.

The mother of 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, who has been missing since early October, was arrested Friday by Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies, but officials said the arrest was unrelated to her daughter’s disappearance.

Melodee was last seen in August but was reported missing more recently when Lompoc Unified School District officials reported her prolonged absence. Deputies searched the girl’s home in Vandenberg Village and spoke to her mother, but said the young girl was nowhere to be seen and that her mother was uncooperative in the investigation .

On Friday, Santa Barbar

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