The search for a missing Miramar teenager ended Wednesday morning, and police said the girl admitted to running away from home. 

Naketa Leiba, 17, was found unharmed and safe in an apartment in the 8400 block of Sherman Circle in Miramar. 

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Leiba’s face was plastered all over town as her parents searched for her since her disappearance Feb. 1. Her parents insisted she was kidnapped after getting off a school bus and that she was held against her will. 

"She's a shell of herself," said her father, Michael Leiba. "She hasn’t said anything, and we’re not going to pressure her at this point in time."

“All we can say is thank God that we have her back alive, and thank God for the media because they put pressure on whoever had her out there,” said her mother, Sharon Leiba. 

But detectives insisted there was no pressure. They said she was staying with an 18-year-old friend and the friend’s male cousin, Mario McCurvin, a convicted felon. 

“She was found hiding under a bunk bed,” said Tania Rues, of the Miramar Police Department. “She, at that point, said, ‘I don’t want to be found,’ -- did not want to return home.” 

A cellphone led investigators to the apartment. 

“She called her mother the day after she was reported missing and told her, ‘Do not look for me. I’m on the road.’ She didn’t want to be found,” Rues said. 

Police said that while her parents told the media and the community their daughter was missing and in danger, they knew she had run away. 

Police said they also were following the teen’s Twitter account. 

“We had gotten information that there were some posts that were unusual, to say the least -- things alluding to drinking, to blowing off college, using foul language,” Rues said. “In the end, the picture that the parents painted, that wasn’t the case.”

Detectives said they found three guns and 211 rounds of ammunition in the apartment where Naketa Leiba was found, and they said the items belonged to McCurvin. Convicted felons cannot possess guns because it is a violation of their probation, police said.