Brittany Mae Smith Update: Kidnap Suspect Jeffrey Scott Easley, Va. Girl Found Panhandling

ROANOKE, Va. (CBS/WDBJ/AP) Brittany Mae Smith, the 12-year-old girl who had been missing for a week, was found unharmed Friday after she and the man accused in her abduction were spotted panhandling in San Francisco, according to county officials.

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Brittany has since been in touch with her family in Virginia, while Jeffrey Scott Easley, 32, was in police custody in San Francisco, Roanoke County Police Chief Ray Lavinder said at a news conference.

The two hadn't been seen since Dec. 3, when they were captured on store surveillance video at a Walmart in Salem, about five miles from Roanoke.

The girl's mother and Easley's girlfriend, Tina Smith, was found dead on Monday their home in southwestern Virginia. The cause of death has not been released but police consider it a homicide.

According to CBS affiliate WDBJ, Police have refused to say whether they consider Easley a suspect in the mother's death, but they said Friday that the investigation of the slaying would ramp up now that the search for the girl is over.

San Francisco police said a woman spotted them both around 2 p.m. Pacific time in front of a supermarket in the city's Outer Richmond neighborhood.

The woman called 911 after recognizing Easley and Smith from a cable news program about the alleged abduction, said Officer Albie Esparza, a police spokesman.

Easley was arrested without incident. The girl is currently in child protective custody and Easley is in San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of kidnapping.

Esparza said the girl is cooperating with police. Police are still looking into what connection Easley and the girl may have to the San Francisco Bay area.

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