Crime & Safety

Woman Turns Self In

A spokeswoman for the Canton Police Department said the agency was going to call the FBI for out-of-state assistance if Ariel Hernandez had not been located by Monday.

, a wanted Canton woman has turned herself in to local authorities, a spokeswoman announced this afternoon.

Ariel Hernandez, who had two warrants out for her arrest, is at the , Sgt. Stacy Bailey said in an email to local media.

"We have removed her from GCIC and NCIC as a missing person," she said.

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Police have not said where Ariel Hernandez, 20, had been hiding out the past two weeks.

Her father, John Hernandez, reported her missing on March 16. He hadn't spoken to his daughter since March 8. She'd recently moved from the  off Marietta Highway to the Great Sky home where her boyfriend's parents live around the first of March. 

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The boyfriend,  and charged with two counts of financial transaction card fraud as well two counts of financial transaction card theft in connection with his tenure as a seasonal employee at UPS. He is being held at the .

Wanted on similar charges, Ariel Hernandez "mentioned to friends of possibly going out of state to lay low to avoid law enforcement," Bailey said Friday night, the same day .

Bailey said the Canton Police Department was going to call the FBI for out-of-state assistance if Ariel Hernandez had not been located by Monday.

John Hernandez, who planned to pull out today from his home in Port St. Lucie, FL, to help aid in the search for his daugther, said he was relieved to know that Ariel Hernandez was safe.

"My daughter is OK," he said in an email to Canton-Sixes Patch. "She did the right thing."


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