It didn’t take long for DeKalb County authorities to arrest Alvin Joiner, a 60-year-old man accused of abducting a 14-year-old girl near Miller Grove High School earlier this month.
All they had to do was wait for him to return to the scene.
Joiner was taken into custody Thursday after DeKalb police’s vice, narcotics and gang unit staked out the school, Channel 2 Action News reported. He matched the description of the police sketch released following the Feb. 6 abduction. He remains in the DeKalb jail on charges of kidnapping and enticing a child for indecent purposes.
Student Rynesha Lucas told Channel 2 she’d “seen (Joiner) delivering newspapers” at the school. Officials have not released his occupation.
Authorities say Joiner forced the girl into his SUV while she walked to her high school. The girl recorded Joiner’s lewd comments before she said he let her go, Channel 2 reported.
Similar cases were reported in December, involving three other female Miller Grove students who reported encounters with a male who matched Joiner’s description. Detectives are investigating if he is connected to those cases.
For now, Lt. Christopher Rorey told Channel 2 he is glad Joiner is arrested: “To know that we eventually caught the suspect and got him off the streets, the neighborhood can be a lot safer.”
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