The case of the once-missing 30-year-old mother of five is closed and there will be no criminal charges, Bartow County Sheriff Clark Millsap said Thursday.
"She is in a safe location. She is alive and well," the sheriff told reporters waiting outside his office. "Why she left is her business, not ours."
He said "anything going on in her residence" is between Wazineh Suleiman and her husband, Abed.
The mystery around Wazineh Sueliman's disappearance last Friday abruptly ended Thursday with no answers.
The sheriff said he would offer only a brief statement and then "I'm out of here." He wouldn't answer any questions.
Wazineh Suleiman had not been seen since around 9 p.m. Friday, when she allegedly drove off in the family's 2004 Nissan Armada after telling her children, ages 6 to 12, that she was going to rent a movie at Walmart.
She didn't come home, and her husband called police when he came into their house and found his wife gone and their children unattended.
Abed Suleiman told the AJC he returned home about 10 minutes after his wife allegedly left, and was shocked to find she had left the home at night.
"My jaw just dropped," Abed Suleiman said.
The family has recently had some serious financial trouble but no one has said that was behind her disappearance for almost a week.
According to documents filed in U.S. bankruptcy court, the Suleimans owed creditors more than $1.2 million when they filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in August. The couple, with more than $150,000 in credit card debt, was forced to surrender most of their assets, including rental property in Florida. The couple kept their Law Road home and a 2009 Toyota Tacoma.
The Armada was found Tuesday morning at a vacant business near I-75 in Cherokee County. It was parked and locked. Surveillance footage from Walmart cameras show no sign of the woman.
Abed Suleiman has told the AJC it is out of character for his wife to not contact him. The two were apparently exchanging text messages Friday night.
One of the text messages sent from Wazineh Suleiman's cell phone said, "I'll just throw my phone out the window," Abed Suleiman told police.
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Wazineh Suleiman was an assistant in a kindergarten class at Dar-Un-Noor Academy in Atlanta, where her children also attend, Abed Suleiman said.
Abed Suleiman is a pharmacist at Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome, according to his Facebook profile. He told the AJC he previously worked at a Walmart pharmacy in Calhoun. In bankruptcy documents, Abed Suleiman listed his monthly net income at $8,350.
Abed Suleiman said he moved his family to Cartersville from south Florida about three years ago.
-- Staff writer Larry Hartstein contributed to this report.
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