Days after a missing Florida teenage girl was allegedly found hundreds of miles away from home with a 27-year-old high school soccer coach, she stood between her parents at a news conference today. 
 
 Caitlyn Frisina, 17, was found safe Friday in a car in Syracuse with Rian Rodriguez, who is a family friend and assistant soccer coach at her Florida high school, authorities said. She had last been seen at home six days earlier. 
 
 Columbia County Sheriffs Office 
 
 The teenager, who has since been reunited with her parents, silently stood between them at today's news conference in Columbia County, Florida, holding her father's hand and linking arms with her mother. 
 
 WFOX 
 
 WFOX 
 
 "We are so thankful and blessed to have our beautiful daughter ... back with us," said Caitlyn Frisina's mother, Scarlett Frisina. "We're looking forward to a very merry Christmas" 
 
 Columbia County Sheriff Mark Hunter said he's proud of the teen for coming to the news conference. 
 
 Hunter said he believes the teen “was influenced by someone who was in control, was in a supervisory role. That shouldn't be. She’s got a lot of growing up to do even though she’s a very strong young lady.” 
 
 Meanwhile, Rodriguez is being held in New York on a Florida warrant for alleged custodial interference, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said. 
 
 He appeared in front of an Onondaga County Court judge this morning where he was appointed an attorney. Rodriguez was also informed of the charges and chose to waive his extradition to Florida, where authorities have two weeks to pick him up. 
 
 Columbia County Sheriffs Office 
 
 The incident began Nov. 26 when Caitlyn Frisina's parents reported her missing. She had last been seen at her home the night before. 
 
 Caitlyn Frisina and Rodriguez were spotted on surveillance cameras in Georgia and then at a pawn shop in Fayetteville, North Carolina. 
 
 Columbia County Sheriffs Office 
 
 Scarlett Frisina called friends of her missing daughter and "discovered she is possible in a relationship with her assistant soccer coach Rian Rodriquez," according to an affidavit. 
 
 A friend of Caitlyn Frisina's sent a message to Scarlett Frisina saying the missing teen "hooked up with Rian and he worked his way into her life," the affidavit said. 
 
 Rodriguez allegedly wanted to leave the country with the teen "and she didn’t know how to get out of it," the affidavit said. "She said she was scared and she didn’t know what to do." 
 
 On Friday around 4 p.m. ET, a New York State Police officer in Syracuse spotted the car the teen and coach were believed to have fled in, according to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. The officer pulled the car over and took Rodriguez into custody without incident, the sheriff's office said. 
 
 Hunter today credited the "observant" trooper who found them after spending his shift looking for the missing duo. 
 
 Rodriguez was suspended from his coaching job pending the investigation, according to a statement from Lex Carswell, superintendent of Columbia County Schools. ||||| Caitlyn Frisina, the Florida teenager who was found with her former soccer coach days after being reported missing, was allegedly pressured to leave the country with him and worried he would “mess up her life,” according to court records obtained by PEOPLE. 
 
 Frisina, now safe at home with her parents, was located in New York state with her soccer coach, Rian Rodriguez, on Friday. The 27-year-old allegedly ran off with the 17-year-old on Nov. 26, and authorities said they were investigating the possibility the two had an “intimate relationship.” 
 
 Rodriguez is being held on a charge of interference with a child’s custody. 
 
 Rodriguez’s arrest warrant affidavit, which was obtained by PEOPLE, alleges that one of the teen’s friends said Frisina had engaged in a sexual relationship with Rodriguez, who pressured her to leave the country with him. 
 
 From left: Caitlyn Frisina, Rian Rodriguez 
 
 • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. 
 
 The affidavit alleges that the Fort White High School senior told friends “she didn’t know how to get out [of] it and if she did he would mess up her life.” 
 
 The affidavit adds: “She said she was scared and didn’t know what to do.” 
 
 The affidavit confirms that Frisina’s phone had been reset, but that data recovered from the SIM card indicated the two were in a sexual relationship. 
 
 According to the affidavit, a school resource officer investigated a rumor in August that Frisina and Rodriguez were in a relationship, but determined those allegations were not true. 
 
 Frisina and Rodriguez were found last week by a New York State Police officer who had spotted his red Mercury Sable GS in Syracuse, New York. 
 
 The officer conducted a traffic stop, and was able to determine that the driver and passenger in the vehicle were the suspect and the missing child, Sheriff Mark Hunter said in a press conference Friday. 
 
 • For more compelling True Crime coverage, follow our Crime magazine on Flipboard. 
 
 Frisina withdrew $200 from an ATM on the day of her disappearance in St. Marys, Georgia, about 115 miles north of Fort White, Florida, where she is from, and a second sighting of the pair together was caught on convenience store surveillance video that later placed them in South Carolina. 
 
 Rodriguez is the head boys soccer coach at Frisina’s Fort White High School, where he also worked as an assistant coach on her girl’s soccer team, Columbia County, Florida, Sheriff’s Detective Capt. Katina Dicks told PEOPLE. 
 
 Jail records show Rodriguez is due in Onondaga court Monday. He has yet to enter a plea to the charge he faces and it was unknown Monday if he has a lawyer who could comment in his behalf. 
 
 The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office said additional charges are possible and could be revealed at a press conference Monday.
– The 27-year-old school soccer coach who was found with a high school girl days after she was reported missing allegedly pressured the teen to leave the country with him. Caitlyn Frisina, 17, disappeared from her home in Fort White, Fla., on Nov. 26, and on Friday, Frisina and Rian Rodriguez were found by a police officer in Syracuse, NY, People reports. Though police initially said there were no signs of a relationship between the two, that seems to be giving way: The arrest affidavit for Rodriguez alleges that one of Frisina's friends said the girl's relationship with Rodriguez was sexual in nature and that he pushed her to leave the country with him. The document alleges Frisina told friends "she didn't know how to get out [of] it and if she did he would mess up her life." Though the phone she left behind had been erased, the affidavit says data pulled from the SIM card also suggests the two were involved in a sexual relationship. At a press conference held Monday in Florida, Columbia County Sheriff Mark Hunter said Frisina—who was in attendance—had been "influenced by someone who was in control, was in a supervisory role. She's got a lot of growing up to do even though she's a very strong young lady." The affidavit alleges Frisina's mother called her daughter's friends after she went missing and learned she was possibly in a relationship with Rodriguez, ABC News reports. Rodriguez is currently being held in New York on charges of custodial interference.