A man has been arrested and charged with kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of a teacher from Memphis, United States, while jogging on Friday morning.
“Cleotha Abston, 38, has been charged with particularly aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence,” the Memphis, Tenn., police department said in a Twitter post.
Eliza Fletcher, 34, was jogging around 4:30 a.m. Friday morning when an unidentified person approached her, CNN reports.
She was forced into a dark mid-size SUV and moved from the scene, according to the police previously said.
The suspect was arrested after the discovery of a vehicle that had been searched since Friday by police in connection with the disappearance of Eliza Fletcher, according to CNN.
Photos posted by the Memphis Police Department on social media show the young woman running in a neighborhood near the University of Memphis.
When she was last seen wearing a pink sports top and purple running shorts, according to an alert issued by police last Friday.
The kindergarten teacher’s damaged cell phone was found near the scene where she was allegedly abducted, the chief executive of CrimeStoppers said in a statement obtained by CNN.
The young woman has still not been located and the investigation is still ongoing, according to a Twitter post on the Memphis Police Department.