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A 10-year-old girl was found dead on Friday, authorities said more than a week after her disappearance in a remote town of Inupiat Eskimo on the northwest coast of Alaska.
The remains of Ashley Johnson-Barr were found east of Kotzebue, said Alaska soldiers.
Late Friday night, FBI spokeswoman Staci Feger-Pellessier said Peter Wilson, 41, of Kotzebue, is accused of making false statements to a federal officer investigating the girl's death. Wilson is transferred to Anchorage, said Feger-Pellessier.
The girl was last seen playing with friends at a local park on September 6th. His cell phone was later found 800 meters from Rainbow Park, in the opposite city of 3,100 people.
The research included the help of 17 FBI agents earlier this week. Troopers spokesman Jonathon Taylor said five of the officers left Kotzebue Thursday for other missions.
The Alaska State Troops are the lead agency in the case. No other information on the discovery of his body was immediately published.
Kotzebue, 26 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 550 miles northwest of Anchorage, is a regional hub for villages in northwestern Alaska.
The city is built on a spit 3 miles long, and many live in a livelihood setting away from the state's limited road network, with 26 miles of local gravel roads used by vehicles during warmer months and snowmobiles in winter. The community has a chronically high unemployment rate, with the school district, state and local hospital among its major employers.
On Wednesday night, dozens of residents gathered at Rainbow Park to pray and share hugs and tears about the missing girl, a student of honor, reported the KTUU Anchorage television channel.
The father of the girl, Walter "Scotty" Barr, told KTUU TV in Kotzebue on Wednesday that he did not know the prayer meeting.
"It shows the love of the community and all those who have helped," he said.
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