SAN ANTONIO — Bexar County officials say a man has been arrested after a missing 15-year-old girl was found in a storage closet.

On June 1, a mother reported her teen girl missing to the San Antonio Police Department.

The mother told investigators that friends told her where her daughter was and who she was with.

Detectives went with the mother to the location to find 31-year-old Anthony Jassiel Cortez.

Cortez reportedly admitted to being with the girl the past few days, but said he had dropped her off at a local mall.

The mother was able to provide authorities with a voice recording of her daughter slurring her speech, saying she was in a shed near Cortez's apartment complex and that she knew police were at his residence.

Officers searched the area and were able to find the teen gir

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