(CNN) -- Alexis Murphy was last seen at a gas station earlier this month, and though police have arrested a suspect in her abduction, his attorney tells a CNN affiliate his client split ways with the 17-year-old after a drug deal. Her disappearance set off a search that extended for 30 miles outside of Lovingston, Virginia, and involved helicopters, search parties with canine units, the Nelson County Sheriff's Office, Virginia State Police and FBI. Alexis left her Shipman, Virginia, home to visit Lynchburg on August 3, and police have surveillance video showing her at a Lovingston gas station, according to affiliate WVIR-TV in Charlottesville.
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Alexis Murphy, 17, disappeared August 3, according to CNN affiliates
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Suspect says through lawyer he was not last person to see the teen
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Attorney says police should look for a man with cornrows, Caprice
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The senior volleyball player was looking at colleges, her aunt tells station
She told him to meet at another location in @placeholder and they rode up there in both cars," the lawyer told the station.