Shocking moment Detroit twin sisters aged 14 who vanished without a trace a month ago are found by cops at hotel with 30 year-old man

Police bodycam footage captured the incredible moment two 14 year-old twin sisters who had run away over a month ago were found by authorities.

The girls were found at a hotel in Allen Park, Michigan, where they were staying with Marcus Peoples, a 30-year-old man with a criminal background.

They were first reported missing by their father on March 8, after they both failed to return to their home on Robson Street in Detroit. 

On April 8, Detroit authorities announced that the twins were recovered and reunited with the rest of their family.

In the bodycam footage, officers could be seen standing outside the girls' hotel room, which was in the Comfort Inn off I-94.

Police bodycam footage captured the remarkable moment when Allen Park police officers found two missing twin sisters. The twins, 14, had run away from their Detroit home over a month ago and there whereabouts were unknown. On April 8, they were found at a Comfort Inn, where they were staying with Marcus Peoples, a 30-year-old with a criminal background; pictured: the twins, with their faces blurred, on the left; Marcus Peoples is on the right in the blue sweatshirt with the BMW logo

The police quickly separated the twins from the 30-year-old.

'Here, you two, right here,' the officer said authoritatively and removed the girls from Peoples' orbit.

'You go with him,' the officer said, directing the 30-year-old to the side. 

The video then showed the girls sitting on the steps of the staircase.

The cop could be heard telling them: 'I know who you guys are. I know who you guys are'.

He added: 'I know who's looking for you, and we're gonna have to solve that tonight'. 

Authorities had previously been unable to locate the ninth-graders because they did not have their cell phones with them.

The father had pleaded with the local community to help him find his daughters. Thanks to leads provided by a school counselor, the authorities learned that the girls were still in the area.

But a month went by without any update on the whereabouts of the fourteen-year-old twins. 

People were instructed to keep an eye out for the sisters, and to get in touch with Detroit's 12th Precinct if they had any information regarding the girls' location. 

The twins' discovery was made possible by a chain of curious and ostensibly unrelated events, beginning with the theft of a Nebraska teenager's debit card.

Peoples used the stolen debit card's information to purchase the hotel room in which the twins were staying. As soon as he used the card, the Nebraska teen received an alert from her bank.

The teen told her mom, Megan McQuain, who then called the hotel and the Allen Park Police Department. 

When the police responded to the call, they were prepared for debit-card fraud.

But one of the officers happened to recognize the missing twins from a previous encounter.

McQuain was astonished to learn that her call led to the discovery of two missing teenagers.

'I didn't know that it was bigger than what it is until yesterday, and it was quite the shock- to say the least'.

She drew a lesson from the experience and said: 'If you see something, say something because if we wouldn't have checked on our credit cards right then and there, and if I would've just waited until the next day, it would've been, maybe, too late.'

'You never know,' McQuain added. 

The twin sisters told officers that they didn't know Marcus Peoples, and that he only bought the hotel room for them so that they would have some place to stay.

Peoples told the police that his brother sent him the stolen card information and that he didn't know the information was stolen.

In the bodycam footage, the officer asked the twins why they had run away from home.

'Don't worry about it,' one of the twins answered, before adding: 'it's none of your business'.

Later in the video, one of the girls could be heard inquiring about foster care. 

'If runaways don't want to go home, what would they do about it?' 

'Yeah, what would they be able to do about it?' The other twin interjected.

'Put us in foster care?"

Police who responded to a call at the Comfort Inn in Allen Park thought that they were responding to a call involving debit-card fraud. To purchase a hotel room, Peoples used debit card information that belonged to a Nebraska teenager. When he used the card, the teenager received an alert and told her mother, who called the hotel and the police. When the police responded to the call, one of the officers recognized the missing twins and separated them from Peoples

The officer answered by saying that they would 'have to go home first,' and then they could get 'all that figured out'. 

A few days before they went missing on March 8, the twins had made another runaway attempt, disappearing from their grandmother's house in River Rouge . 

At the time, their sister posted on Facebook: 'Please help me find my 14-year-old little sisters'.

Their father had been able to locate them, but only a few days later they were missing again.

After the twins were safely found on April 8, Marcus Peoples was charged with fraud, using a stolen debit card, and harboring missing juveniles, according to authorities. 

Peoples' bond was set at $150,000.