Snapchat Photo Helps Friend Track Down Missing Teenager

A 15-year-old girl who went missing over the weekend was tracked down after a family friend saw her picture on Snapchat. Amber Austin went missing from her grandmother's home on Saturday. Investigators did not have any leads until her photo surfaced on the social media app. 

Police say that 27-year-old Dakota Moss pretended to be a woman and lured the suspect to his home. When the suspect, identified as 34-year-old Dayton Seth Koop, arrived he pulled into the backyard while Moss called the police. 

"When he had pulled in (to his home), he went around to the back," Moss recalled. "I had my roommate go out the back, and I called the sheriff's department knowing he was there."

Police found Amber in the back of Koop's SUV with a bandana tied around her wrists. Moss said that "she seemed real scared" and "had tears in her eyes."

"She seemed real scared," Moss recalled. "She had tears in her eyes. I prayed so hard that God would help me find this girl, and it all worked out for the best."

Koop was arrested and charged with unruliness of a minor. Police also found methamphetamine on him when he was taken into custody. Koop was accused by a woman in 2014 of raping her in 2011, but he was never indicted.