14-year-old girl who didn't show up after school found with 41-year-old man at a NC hotel

SANFORD, N.C. (WTVD) -- A man is facing criminal charges and deportation after he was found at a hotel on Wednesday with a 14-year-old girl in Lee County.

According to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, the investigation started when the teenager didn't come home after school.

Investigators later identified 41-year-old Alfonso Villalba Bustamante as the person who picked the student up after school. The two were later found in a hotel in Sanford.

Bustamante was arrested on multiple charges, including two counts of statutory rape, abduction of a child, felony conspiracy to commit abduction, second-degree kidnapping, and solicitation of a minor by computer.

Officers also learned that Bustamante may be in the country illegally and is being held on a federal detainer.

Bustamante was taken before a Lee County Magistrate and placed in jail under no bond.

The girl has been safely reunited with her family, the sheriff's office says.

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The sheriff's office says they received assistance with the investigation from the NC SBI, Homeland Security, Broadway Police Department, and Sanford Police Department.

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