Via WishTV:
After an extensive week-long search for Carlie Trent, two citizens are credited for finding the 9-year-old in a rural part of Hawkins County, Tennessee, eight days after she was kidnapped by her uncle.
“Carlie is safe tonight because of an entire community pulling together and working with law enforcement to bring her home,” TBI Director Mark Gwyn said.
Gwyn said two men, Donnie Lawson and Stewart Franklin, discovered the girl and her uncle while searching a large area of property in the Clinch Valley area.
Franklin was riding an ATV when he found Carlie walking around carrying a teddy bear on property belonging to Lawson’s brother, property the TBI described as “only accessible by four-wheel drive.”
Franklin held Simpson at gunpoint soon after while Lawson called 911.