ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — A man who authorities say lured a 13-year-old girl from her Seattle-area home and drove with her into Oregon was arrested when the rental car the two were traveling in became stuck in deep snow.

Christopher Thomas Knox, of Hillsboro, Oregon, called the sheriff’s office for help when the car became stranded in the Clatsop State Forest, authorities said.

Knox, 37, at first told responding deputies the girl was his daughter. But it soon came out that she was from King County and was with Knox without her parents’ knowledge, the sheriff said.

Knox made an initial court appearance Tuesday, but he did not enter a plea on charges of online sexual corruption of a minor and luring a minor, according to online court documents. He is being held on $250,000 bail and has another hearing next week.

Investigators said they believe Knox sexually abused the teenager near her home on Feb. 15 and then a second time at a rest stop or state park somewhere between Tacoma and Astoria.

The girl was taken to a local hospital for an exam and has since returned to her parents.