Authorities have safely recovered a missing juvenile girl in Kaufman County and arrested an 18-year-old Forney man on felony charges following a weeks-long search, officials announced Monday.

Missing Texas Teen Found Safe Blake D. Teel, 18, was taken into custody Aug. 31 by Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office investigators and agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division.

Teel was booked into the Kaufman County Adult Detention Center, where he awaits extradition to Guadalupe County on warrants for sexual assault of a child and harboring a runaway.