BIBB COUNTY. Ga. — A Georgia woman and her 2-year-old daughter are safe after being reported missing earlier this week.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said Tamya De’Anna Alexander, 23, and her daughter, two-year-old Serenity Williams, were reported missing Tuesday.

Investigators have since learned that she did not go missing at all. Instead, they said Alexander faked her own disappearance and that of her child.

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Police say she was located Wednesday night at a residence in Macon.

Family members told investigators they last saw the mother and daughter Monday afternoon. The two were last seen getting into a blue BMW in 1900 block of Vining Circle in Macon.

Investigators say Alexander made several false communications that she and her child were in danger.

Because these statements were found to be false, she was arrested and charged with terroristic threats and enticing a child for indecent purposes.

She is being held without bond.

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