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 A Johns Creek man originally reported to be kidnapped April 27 returned to his Morton Crossing home unharmed Sunday evening around 9. Aftab Aslam told investigators he left on his own. 
 
 Aslam was reported missing about 10 a.m. on April 27 from his parents' home. They received an early morning text saying the 19-year-old was kidnapped. 
 
 Investigators from Johns Creek, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation discovered that Aslam had bought the cell phone that sent the text, and that no one else had handled the phone. 
 
 Aslam told police he left home for personal reasons. Investigators are verifying his account, and charges have not been filed yet. ||||| Three law enforcement agencies have been searching for a 19-year-old Johns Creek man since last Saturday; now they're asking for help from the public in finding him. 
 
 Aftab M. Aslam, who is 5 feet, 10 inches tall, 165 pounds and has medium-length black hair, was first reported as being kidnapped on April 27 at 10 a.m. Johns Creek Police responded to his Morton Crossing address, where officers were told he was missing from his home. 
 
 "Aslam's family reported that they had received a phone text stating that he had been kidnapped," a news release from the city said. 
 
 Bringing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) into the case, investigators found the phone used to send the text and discovered that Aslam had been the one to purchase it. Now authorities believe Aslam may have sent the text to his family. 
 
 Anyone who has had contact with Aslam or has any information regarding his whereabouts should contact Det. James Harris at 678-274-8348 or by e-mail at: james.harris@johnscreekga.gov. ||||| Story highlights Police say the missing 13-year-old thanked officers after they found him 
 
 He was inside a hidden compartment, behind the linen closet, police say 
 
 Police arrest boy's father and stepmother on false imprisonment, other charges 
 
 The boy contacted his mother by phone, helping officers find him, police say 
 
 A missing 13-year-old boy escaped from a hidden compartment in a Georgia home, crawling through a narrow opening behind the shelves of a linen closet to reach police. 
 
 The first thing Gregory Jean Jr. told officers, police said Monday, was "thank you." 
 
 "We told him who we were and we told him that we were here to help him," Clayton County Police Sgt. Joanne Southerland told reporters. "After minutes of talking with him, he was able to come out." 
 
 Before his rescue last week from an Atlanta-area home, the boy had been physically assaulted that day, Clayton County Police Chief Gregory Porter said. 
 
 The boy's mother told police he had been missing for four years. Porter told reporters Monday that investigators are still looking into the case. He declined to provide specific details, saying he didn't want to jeopardize the investigation. 
 
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 "The point today is that the child is safe. ... There are a lot of unanswered questions at this point," he said. 
 
 The boy's father, 37-year-old Gregory Jean Sr., and stepmother, 42-year-old Samantha Joy Davis, were arrested and charged with false imprisonment, cruelty to children and obstruction, Porter said. A judge denied them bond at a court appearance Sunday, CNN affiliate WSB reported. Three teenagers who were living in the home were also arrested, Porter said. 
 
 The boy was reunited Saturday morning with his mother, who lives out of state, police said over the weekend. 
 
 The hidden compartment where the boy was found, police said, was an area filled with wooden beams and insulation between the garage and attic of the home in Jonesboro, Georgia. 
 
 "It was an area where no person should be living or held. ... No one should have been in that area where we found the victim," Porter said. 
 
 Police said it was unclear exactly how long the boy had been inside the compartment. He also shared a bedroom in the house, Southerland said. 
 
 The boy's father and stepmother didn't do anything to physically stop police from searching the house, she said, but "there was a lot of deception." 
 
 "They denied knowing the child existed, denied knowing the child was in the residence," Southerland told reporters. "They had no idea who the child was or why we were there." 
 
 Police said they first went to the home in Jonesboro on Friday night after the boy's mother contacted them. On the first visit, they didn't find him. Then his mother called 911 again, this time with more information provided by her son. 
 
 Southerland said police returned to the home, determined to find the boy. While police were at the house, the boy was able to communicate with his mother and give more detailed information about his whereabouts. That, she said, is how investigators found him. 
 
 "When we get a call like that....we won't leave until we make sure that any child is safe," Southerland said. "And that's what we did. ... It's just a reminder that we never know what happens behind closed doors. And we have to take every call seriously."
– A 19-year-old college student was flunking English again, so he did what any struggling student fearful of mom and dad's wrath would do: faked his own kidnapping, police say. Aftab Aslam's parents got a text saying the Georgia Gwinnett College student had been kidnapped; if they called police, he'd be killed, the message said. Turns out the text came from a phone Aslam himself had bought at Target, according to police, who were in fact told of the text by Aslam's parents right after they received it on April 27, reports Johns Creek Patch. Aslam surfaced at his home eight days later, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. At first, he told police he'd been taken and drugged, but eventually he retracted the story, and the truth came out. He had actually camped in a tent in an undeveloped section of Forsyth County but returned when the weather got bad, police say. He turned himself in last week and now faces a slew of charges, including three felony counts each of false statements, tampering with evidence, and terroristic threats.