Kentucky man arrested, missing North Carolina teen found in hidden trap door
LINCOLN COUNTY, K.Y. (CBS) — A teenager reported missing from North Carolina weeks ago was found in Kentucky with a man that police say was keeping her hidden in the floor beneath his house.
Zackary Keith Jones, thirty-four, is facing more than thirty different charges, including rape. Police say that he met the sixteen-year-old victim on the internet, then took her from her home in North Carolina by making her believe he was much younger.
Jones was arrested, and the girl was rescued on Christmas Day when a domestic violence call was made from a home on Robertstown Road in the town of Kings Mountain.
“Mr. Jones had told them that she had fled the scene,” said Lincoln County Sheriff Shawn Hines. “And after doing some investigation, they realized she was there and there was a room cut out in the floor that you access through the floor and it was covered with a rug. That is where the juvenile was located at.”
Police say when the girl realized how old Jones was, he threatened to kill her and had even said he would kill a deputy sheriff that had once pulled the two over, if she told them what he was doing.
The victim has since been returned to her family.
Jones is in the Pulaski County Jail.
