Charlotte Sena, a missing girl has been found safe after the local police used fingerprint from a random note to track her.
Charlotte who is only 9 disappeared while riding her bicycle on Saturday while riding her bicycle in New York state and hundreds of concerned citizens came out to look for her.
Her family were on a camping trip when she went missing in a wooded area of Moreau Lake State Park, a popular site about 45 miles (72km) north of Albany.
A ransom note was later delivered to the family home, which officials said contained the suspect’s fingerprints.
When police identified him, they located him at a property owned by his mother and arrested him.
“After some resistance, the suspect was taken into custody and immediately the little girl was found in a cabinet,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a news conference on Monday night. “She knew she was being rescued. She knew that she was in safe hands.
“What happened was extraordinary,” she said.
The governor named the suspect as Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 47, and said he was still being questioned.
According to Callahan Walsh from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, speaking to the BBC’s US partner CBSCharlotte may have experienced “immense” trauma.
The search operation grew over a distance of nearly 50 miles (80km), police said.
The FBI has also been assisting with the case, Gov Hochul said.
