Amber Alert canceled for missing pregnant teen suspected to be with 40-year-old man

BEAVER DAM, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) – An Amber Alert for a missing, pregnant teen from Wisconsin was canceled early Thursday morning.

The now 17-year-old was found alive and Gary Day, the 40-year-old man she was believed to be with, is now in custody.

Authorities said a woman called 911 to report a possible sighting of the teenager after meeting her at a truck stop in Nebraska.

She was taken to a hospital and she and the fetus are both healthy, according to authorities. The teenager’s family is traveling to reunite with her and said she will be home in Wisconsin on Friday.

Day, of Arkansas, is believed to be the father of the teen’s unborn child.

Day has a criminal record in Arkansas, and an arrest warrant for him was issued out of Dodge County in Wisconsin in February.

Four felony counts of child enticement and abduction were filed in Wisconsin.

WBAY spoke to the teen’s parents Wednesday on her 17th birthday. They pleaded for her to come home, just hours before she was found.

“It feels really empty to try to celebrate a birthday with her not here,” her mother said.

The teen’s parents said she and Day began communicating online last year. For several months, their daughter stayed in Arkansas while giving them the impression she was still in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

She returned home to Wisconsin and stayed with her family up until her disappearance.

“Just the fact that we haven’t heard anything about her whereabouts also just makes you wonder, what’s going on,” the girl’s father said.

He learned the two were communicating again prior to her disappearance. He was filing a restraining order against Day on the day Ring doorbell footage captured him in the neighborhood.

Details of how the pair was found are unclear at this time. Officials with the Beaver Dam Police Department plan to share more information Thursday.

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