ALLEN PARK, Mich. (FOX 2) – When police found twin sisters who had run away from home a month ago, they found them with a 30-year-old man with a criminal record — at an Allen Park hotel.
The 14-year-old twins were reported missing by their father on March 8 after they failed to return to their home in the 1800 block of Robson Street in Detroit. Detroit police said the sisters were found and reunited with their families on April 8.
A debit card number believed to have been stolen in Nebraska led police to the Comfort Inn on I-95 in Allen Park, where the sisters were found with Marcus Peoples, a Highland Park resident.
The stolen debit card information was used by Peoples to purchase the hotel room the twins were staying in, according to police.
The card belonged to a Nebraska teenager named Abigale, who received a text alert from her bank. She immediately told her mother, who then called the hotel and the Allen Park Police Department.
“I didn’t know it was bigger than what it is until yesterday, and it was a shock to say the least,” said Megan McQuain, Abigale’s mother.
Body camera video recently released by Allen Park police shows the sisters’ discovery on April 8. A police officer who responded to the scene of the credit card fraud accidentally recognized the missing twins.
“I know who you are, and I know who’s looking for you, okay? And we’re going to have to figure this out tonight,” an officer can be heard saying in the released footage.
Before the girls were found, their father, George Ogden, told FOX 2 they had already left the house without permission. The two had previously run away while visiting their grandmother in River Rouge – and although Ogden was able to bring them home, they left without their cell phones only a day later.
Twins on the run from Detroit, missing for a month, were found at an Allen Park hotel with 30-year-old Marcus Peoples.
When asked why they ran away from home, one of the girls told police: “Don’t worry, it’s none of your business.”
The sisters also told police they did not know Peoples and that he only bought the room for them so they would have a place to stay.
The suspect claimed his brother sent him the card information and did not know it was stolen, according to body camera video.
Peoples was charged with fraud, using a stolen credit card and harboring missing minors, according to police. His bail was set at $150,000.
“If you see something, say something, because if we hadn’t checked our credit cards right then and there, and I had just waited until the next day, it might have been too late.” , McQuain said. “We never know.”
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