IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police were investigating whether a body found Friday is that of a 10-year-old girl who authorities said vanished with a registered sex offender. Cedar Rapids police canceled an Amber Alert for Jetseta Marrie Gage after the body was found in a rundown mobile home in a rural area near the small town of Kalona, about 45 miles south of Cedar Rapids. A positive identification of the body had not been made.
Roger Bentley, 37, a family acquaintance, was taken into custody in Johnson County for questioning early Friday but has not been charged. He is accused of taking Jetseta from her mother's house in nearby Cedar Rapids on Thursday night.
Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek said state criminologists were to work through the night processing the site where the body was discovered. He declined to share any more details of the investigation, and refused to answer questions.
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