A 37-year-old man is under arrest after police say he was found with an adolescent Hoover girl who had run away from home.

Herbert James Cox is charged with traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act, second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor.

The investigation began Sept. 15 when Hoover police received a report of a 12-year-old runaway, said Lt. Daniel Lowe.

Detectives with the Special Victims Unit began an investigation and developed a possible location for the child after receiving information from a family member that indicated she may have been with an adult male she met online.

On Sept. 16, Birmingham police officers located the girl at a residence in the 8000 block of Fourth Avenue South and contacted Hoover detectives.

Lowe said detectives determined Cox had engaged in sexual acts with the child.

Cox was taken into custody and transported to the Hoover City Jail.

Because the case involved activity in both districts within Jefferson County, the cases were presented to the district attorney offices in both Birmingham and Bessemer.

Cox was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 6:20 p.m. Monday and remains held without bond.