A Clayton County teen who was abducted from her home early Tuesday morning is now back with her family. 
 
 
 
 A neighbor told Channel 2 Action News she saw Ayvani Perez, 14, return to the family home in Ellenwood early Wednesday night. 
 
 
 
 However, Channel 2 Action News has learned Ayvani did not spend the night at the home that she was abducted from nearly 48 hours earlier. 
 
 
 
 Investigators announced in a new conference Wednesday that they had arrested Wildrego Jackson, 29, and Juan Alberto Rodriguez, 40, in connection to Ayvani's abduction. 
 
 
 
 Police said two armed men broke into Ayvani's home early Tuesday and kidnapped her after asking her mother for money and jewelry. 
 
 
 
 Police said Rodriguez and Jackson are not the same men that were pictured in the sketches investigators released on Tuesday. 
 
 
 
 They said the men in the sketches are the ones that carried out the abduction, and they remain on the loose. 
 
 
 
 "We believe those two suspects in the drawings are still at large," said Special Agent Rick Maxwell with the FBI. 
 
 
 
 Clayton County Police Chief Greg Porter said Ayvani was in seemingly good health when police found her and she had been evaluated after police said they located her at a home in Conyers. 
 
 Federal agents wouldn't say how they came to find Ayvani at the Conyers home. 
 
 
 
 Porter said the suspects were captured "through hardcore police work." 
 
 "I want to thank the community as a whole for supporting the Clayton County Police Department and all the collaborations between the agencies," Porter said. 
 
 
 
 After digging into both men's criminal background, Channel 2 Action News learned there was a connection between one of the men arrested and Ayvani's mother, Maria Corral. 
 
 
 
 ICE agents confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that Rodriguez was arrested in December 2012 in Henry County under the name of Juan Aberto Contreras-Ramirez, and was charged with trafficking marijuana. 
 
 
 
 Channel 2's Erica Byfield confirmed that Ayvani's mother was also arrested in that same incident. 
 
 
 
 Drug agents said they found 500 pounds of marijuana in the Henry County home where the Rodriguez and Ayvani's mother were arrested. 
 
 
 
 Charges against both were later dropped but the case indicates this week's kidnapping may not be as random as authorities first believed. 
 
 
 
 Rodriguez is currently being held on immigration-related charges. Jackson faces conspiracy to commit kidnapping charges. 
 
 
 
 Channel 2 Action News dug into Jackson's record and found he has an extensive criminal background dating back to at least 2001. 
 
 
 
 Records show multiple arrests through the years on charges that include assault, child cruelty, sale and distribution of cocaine, marijuana possession, and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. He was also arrested on obstruction charges. 
 
 
 
 Neighbors told Byfield they are very happy the teen was returned safely. 
 
 
 
 "We have just been praying as a community for her safe return and so I'm so excited," said neighbor Fran Pond. 
 
 Pond said she doesn't know the girl but in the day and a half she saw Ayvani's picture all over the place, she felt a connection. 
 
 
 
 "My heart goes out because I'm a mom, so my heart went out to her mom," Pond said. 
 
 
 
 Lucille Howard lives two doors down from Ayvani and her family. Howard just moved to the seemingly quiet neighborhood three days ago. She made a point to hug the teen Wednesday evening shortly after Ayvani returned home safely. 
 
 
 
 "Something like that really shook me up. But I'm going to find out more about this thing because some things don't make sense to me," Howard said. "She smiled, she gave me the biggest smile, she said thank you." 
 
 
 
 Howard says the teen looked calm but tired and glad to be home. Now H oward and other neighbors have questions about the circumstances surrounding Ayvani's kidnapping 
 
 
 
 "Just meeting her today, it doesn't matter what happened, since she is home safe. That's my main concern," Howard said. ||||| As law enforcement agencies all around Georgia search for 14-year-old kidnapping victim Ayvani Perez, one of her best friends is praying for her safe return. 
 
 "I want to tell her that I love her," said Perez's friend and classmate Ariana Soeun. "I hope that she comes home because she knows everybody misses her." 
 
 A Levi’s Call alert has been posted for Perez, who authorities said was abducted from her family’s Ellenwood home Tuesday about 2 a.m. Police released sketches of the two armed men they believe took her during the home invasion on Brookgate Drive. Police said the mother tried to hide her two children, but the suspects found the family, along with the family’s dog, and demanded money and jewelry. 
 
 Family members and law enforcement officials said suspects are now demanding a ransom for Perez's safe return, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 
 
 A friend of Perez told Channel 2's Richard Elliot she's praying for the teen's safe return. 
 
 Channel 2 Action News has a team of reporters speaking with law enforcement about every possible lead in this case. 
 
 Despite the fact that she lives in Clayton County, Henry County School officials confirmed Perez is enrolled at Stockbridge High School. Officials also confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that police detectives visited the school Tuesday morning hoping to find some information that might help them locate Perez. 
 
 I just got this pic of kidnapping victim Ayvani Perez. She's on the right. #wsbtvpic.twitter.com/4nu761WSRY — Richard Elliot (@RElliotWSB) September 17, 2013 
 
 Soeun said she and Perez have been friends for years, and just graduated middle school together. She described her friend as a typical teenager who likes to talk a lot and get together to do each other's hair and makeup. 
 
 "She was a sweet girl," said Soeun's grandmother Doris Kinsey. "She came over to our house during prom season, and her and Ariana got dressed for the prom. We took pictures. She seemed like a very sweet girl." 
 
 Other Stockbridge students described school Tuesday as anxious, tense and emotional for many of Perez's friends. 
 
 
 
 "I saw people coming out of the counselor's office crying," said classmate Brittany Draughton. 
 
 
 
 "I've seen a lot of people crying and depressed," said classmate Shareena Grenan. "Sad like." 
 
 
 
 Draughton and Grenan said students were taking to social media sites like Instagram to spread the word about their missing friend. 
 
 Soeun said she had to leave school Tuesday because she couldn't handle her emotions any longer. She just hopes to see her friend again very soon. 
 
 
 
 "Just pray for her that she'll be OK and hope nothing's going to happen to her," said Soeun. 
 
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– Authorities are still keeping quiet about just how they managed to find a kidnapped girl "at a residence" in Conyers, Ga.; they're calling it "hardcore police work," WSB-TV notes. In the meantime, however, new information is emerging about the circumstances of the kidnapping. One of the suspects had previously been arrested along with victim Ayvani Hope Perez's mother, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Juan Alberto Contreras-Ramirez—called as Contreras-Rodriguez in the kidnapping arrest—was nabbed in a 2012 drug trafficking case involving the seizure of 500 pounds of marijuana; Perez's mom, Maria Corral, and several others were also busted. Corral's charge was quickly dropped; in January, charges against Contreras-Ramirez were, as well, following a home search deemed unconstitutional. As for Corral, "I think she just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," says Contreras-Ramirez's lawyer in the drug case. She was "talking in the driveway" with Contreras-Ramirez when the arrests occurred. As for Perez, "she looked tired, but not shaken up" upon arriving home, says a neighbor. "She was smiling. A look of relief was all over her."