Shasta Groene found alive, missing for 6 weeks


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(CNN) -- An 8-year-old Idaho girl, missing more than six weeks, has been found alive and police have arrested a 42-year-old sex offender, a sheriff's department official said Saturday.

Shasta Groene was found at a Denny's restaurant in Coeur d'Alene at about 2 a.m. (4 a.m. ET), a spokesman for the Kootenai County (Idaho) Sheriff's Department said.

Shasta's brother, 9-year-old Dylan, has not been located, but her great aunt, Sue Torres, told CNN that "Shasta's probably going to take us to him."

Kootenai County Sheriff's Department spokesman Capt. Ben Wolfinger said Shasta was accompanied by Joseph Edward Duncan III, a registered sex offender, who was being questioned by investigators.

Wolfinger said Duncan -- who has a Fargo, North Dakota, address -- was charged with kidnapping and there were two out-of-state warrants for Duncan.

Shasta is at the Kootenai Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN. Wolfinger said she was taken to the hospital "as a precautionary measure" and appeared "to be in generally good health."

The children have been missing since May 16, when their mother, a brother and the mother's boyfriend were found beaten to death in the mother's home.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/02/idaho.children/index.html

For anyone following this story, this is awesome news. It's only about 60 miles from where I live and has been on the local news stations here constantly. It seemed like this was going to end in tragedy because of the lack of new tips/information coming in. Hopefully she can lead police to her missing brother and hopefully he'll be alive and in good condition too.

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