A missing Georgia teenager who investigators say was lured out of his home by a suspect he met while playing online video games was found by the FBI five days later in a closet across the state New York was hiding.

Jahon Zorian Fuller, a 16-year-old with autism, was found Tuesday, according to an announcement from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office looking for the missing teen investigator said was last seen leaving his Dodge home County left. Georgia, October 27th. He was believed to have left of his own volition, the sheriff’s office said when he was first reported missing.

His father, Dion Fuller, told investigators he woke up around 4 a.m. to find that Jahon, who has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old, was gone, WGCL-TV reported. Since Fuller doesn’t speak easily to strangers, has no friends, and mostly plays video games on his PlayStation, his family immediately suspected that someone had lured him out of Douglasville.

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FBI agents later found Fuller hiding in a closet in a house in Eastchester, New York, in Westchester County about 20 miles north of Manhattan, his mother Lashawnda Collins told Fox 5 DC. Collins said the suspect established an online relationship with her son that somehow went undetected, despite making efforts to monitor his online activities.

Jahon Fuller was in New York after investigators said he was lured out of his Georgia home and picked up by a stranger he met online.
(Douglas County Sheriff’s Office)

“Oh my god, I couldn’t believe it. I was like, ‘In New York?'” Collins said, remembering when investigators contacted her to find out where they’d found the missing teenager.

Mark Valente, 26, was arrested in New York and awaiting extradition to Georgia.

“Through the investigation, we found that he hit someone in the game system,” Douglas County Sheriff’s Captain Trent Wilson told Fox 5 DC. “This person came from New York to get him and take him to New York.”

Detectives managed to track down Fuller after his brother received strange Instagram messages from him the day after the autistic teen disappeared. A text message allegedly written by Fuller said, “I’m going west to get an easier job as the south has a higher poverty rate. I’ve saved money to secretly tell mom and dad I’m fine.” goes.” But his mother insisted that Jahon never had a job.

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His family also provided Fox 5 with a copy of a handwritten note that Jahon allegedly left that read, “I’m going west to improve my own life by finding work. Goodbye. I love you.” After Jahon disappeared, Collins said she searched his PlayStation but all of Jahon’s online messages had been deleted.