Father of missing barista says daughter did not know suspect
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In this undated photo released by the Anchorage Police Department missing Anchorage, Alaska, barista, Samantha Koenig, 18, is pictured. (AP/Anchorage Police Dept.)
The father of a young woman missing now for weeks says his daughter does not know the person charged in the case.
Eighteen-year-old Samantha Koenig has been missing since March 1 when a surveillance camera at an Anchorage coffee shack showed her being led away by a man police believe was armed.
The U.S. Marshals Service says 34-year-old Israel Keyes is headed back to Alaska after being arrested in Texas. Keyes was arrested on a charge of access device fraud for allegedly making several cash withdrawals from a stolen debit card. The card was not Koenig's.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Koenig's father, James Koenig, told the Anchorage Daily News that his daughter does not know Keyes and he believes his daughter is the victim of a random abduction.