DELAND -- As it turns out, there was a lost dog after all.
On Friday, Volusia County Sheriff's investigators located the man at the
center of a reported suspicious incident near DeLand on Wednesday involving missing dog and his approaching a girl about it.
Based on the girl's account of the encounter, investigators were concerned that the man may have been using the lost dog story as a ploy to lure the girl into his truck. But after talking to the man on Friday,
investigators said his story checked out and he had actually found a dog in the neighborhood and was passing out fliers and stopping people to ask them about the dog in the hopes of locating the animal's owner.
"After talking to the man, investigators determined that there was no criminal behavior on the man's part. Accordingly, investigators have closed the case," Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said.