A 16-year-old girl who flew to the Middle East to see a man she met on MySpace.com was detained in Jordan and is now heading home, according to an FBI spokesman.
AP reports U.S. officials persuaded Katherine Lester to take the return flight from Amman, FBI Special Agent Robert Beeckman said from the agency's Detroit office.
Katherine had disappeared from her home in Gilford, in eastern Michigan, on Monday and apparently planned to visit a man whose MySpace account describes him as a 25-year-old from Jericho, said Tuscola County Undersheriff James Jashinske.
The sheriff's department contacted the FBI, which traced the teenager to a flight from New York to Amman, Jashinske said.
On Thursday night, her family received word from U.S. officials that she had been stopped as she arrived in Amman en route to Tel Aviv, Israel.
Jashinske said it remained unclear whether any law had been violated.
An online conversation with a 16-year-old is not illegal in Michigan, but solicitation for sex would be.
He said deputies confiscated the family's home computer and were taking it to the FBI's Bay City office Friday for analysis.
FBI spokesman Brian Endrizal declined to provide any details and would not comment on the man's identity or background.
