A decomposing human leg found in the desert in December has matched the DNA of a missing 17-year-old girl. Authorities said a 51-year-old man, Abraham Feinbloom, has been arrested following the harrowing discovery.

T'Neya Tovar, a Riverside County teen, had vanished more than two months earlier from her home in Hemet, California. Detectives said she had travelled more than 70 miles on December 1 to the Thermal area, which lies within Coachella Valley, reportedly to meet an unknown man, reports KTLA.

Her distraught mother, Charro Tovar, said that her daughter usually shared her location with family and friends, but on that day, all communication stopped suddenly. She was reported missing the same day, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Twenty days later on December 21, authorities discovered a human leg in the Vista Delmar area in California that "showed signs of decomposition," according to a previous sheriff's office release. DNA testing confirmed the remains belonged to Tovar.

"The mother's DNA swab was compared to that of the found remains through a rapid DNA analysis comparison and a positive match was made, identifying the found remains as the missing female juvenile reported out of Riverside County, California," the release stated.

On February 13, at about 7.30am local time, an emergency response team with the FBI service a search warrant at a residence in the 2800 block in Salton City, California, an Imperial County Sheriff's Office press release confirmed.

It said a male subject, later identified as Feinbloom, was "observed jumping a fence to the residence in what appeared to be an attempt to evade law enforcement".

He was turned over to FBI agents and questioned while the residence was processed for evidence. He was subsequently arrested and booked into Imperial County Jail without bail on suspicion of murder and resisting a peace officer.