UPDATE: Missing Habersham County teen reunited with family

16-year-old Alexia Nicole Peppers of Turnerville was found safe in Atlanta after a weeklong search.Photo byHabersham County Sheriff's Office/Facebook

The weeklong search for a missing Habersham County teenager has ended and she is back, safe with family, the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office says.

On June 6, officials reported that Alexia Peppers, 16, of Turnerville was located with the help of other law enforcement agencies in the Atlanta area.

Peppers disappeared from her home on Pantherbrook Lane on May 30. The search for the Turnerville teen intensified after authorities said they believed she was in the company of a 20-year-old man who was possibly armed and dangerous.

Authorities have not said whether that man, Derrick Jayden Wing, was with Peppers when police found her in Atlanta.

“Due to the ongoing investigation, we are not able to release specifics of the case at this time,” says sheriff’s spokesperson Rob Moore.