ALPENA COUNTY, MI – Michigan State Police helped locate a teenage girl from Northern Michigan who was reportedly on her way Friday to meet a man in Georgia she met online.

Troopers from the MSP Alpena post were called to a home in Sanborn Township on Friday, Aug. 29, and spoke to parents who believed their 17-year-old daughter ran away, according to the post’s release on social media .

Authorities used the Life360 app, a location-based service, on a family member’s phone, police said, to find the teenager was at Detroit Metro Airport.

It was also found the girl had been communicating with the man from Georgia on the internet and was planning to meet him at a hotel, according to police.

While troopers were at the home, the parents received a text message with their daughter’s flight i

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