UPDATE: Putnam County Sheriff's Office searching for missing teen, SUV discovered in Pooler

Billy Hobbs, The Union-Recorder, Milledgeville, Ga.
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Jul. 29—EATONTON, Ga. — Law enforcement authorities throughout Georgia are searching for a missing 14-year-old girl from Putnam County, whom they believe is with a young man wanted on criminal charges.

Putnam County Sheriff Howard R. Sills issued an alert to other law enforcement agencies and area media Wednesday about the case.

As of Friday afternoon, authorities still were searching for the pair.

The teen was identified as Gracie Lynn-Madison McCumbers, of Eatonton. She is described as a white female. She stands 5-foot-4 and weighs 135 pounds. She has brown hair and blue eyes.

The man she is believed to be with is identified as Caleb Peter Green, 21, also of Eatonton.

Green is described as a white male standing 5-foot-7 and weighing 145 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.

Sills said Green is wanted on a criminal charge of interference with custody.

The teen left her residence in Putnam County about midnight Sunday, July 25. She was with Green at the time, and he was driving a white 2011 Volvo XC90, four-door SUV.

Sills said the SUV was seen on a police patrol car's tag reader in the area of Pooler, Ga. on Monday, July 26, at 5:45 p.m.

On Thursday, about 4 p.m., the girl's mother and stepfather discovered the SUV abandoned in the parking lot of a shopping center in Pooler, Sills told The Union-Recorder during a telephone interview.

"At this time, we really don't know where this young girl and man are," Sills said.

The sheriff said he believes they may have gotten in touch with someone to pick them up and take them somewhere else.

"I highly suspect somebody else picked them up," Sills said. "It's pretty clear to me, looking at the evidence, that the car was left there in the parking lot of that shopping center on purpose."

Sills said Green has relatives and friends in the Savannah-Chatham County area, as well as Hilton Head, S.C., and Panama City, Fla.

"I've asked the U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Task Force in Savannah to assist us," Sills said. "I've been on the phone a good bit with them this morning."

He said he gave them some addresses to check out in the Savannah-Chatham County area.

The sheriff said Green could be looking at some "very serious" criminal charges when he is caught.

Anyone with information concerning their whereabouts is asked to call the Putnam County Sheriff's Office at 706-485-8557.