Man charged after Christina Morris still missing after 3.5 months

PLANO, Texas -- There's been a break in the case of a woman who went missing in Texas three-and-a-half months ago.

Police have had little to go on in the disappearance of Christina Morris, except a surveillance tape of the last person with her.

ABC's Linzie Janis reports this morning a high school friend of the 23-year old -- the last person seen with her before she disappeared -- is behind bars.

Police are charging 24-year-old Enrique Arochi with aggravated kidnapping more than three months after a surveillance video from August 30th captured the friends walking into a mall parking garage in Plano.

Arochi told Dallas ABC station WFAA in November that he had nothing to do with Morris' disappearance.

Arochi said then, "I feel they are wasting their time on me when they can be looking at somebody else that is actually the suspect or the person that actually did it."

Detectives took Arochi's car away on a flatbed truck Saturday, saying his arrest is partly based on DNA evidence collected from the car in September.

And police say several of his statements to investigators conflicted with evidence.

Plano police spokesman David Tilley told ABC News, "A lot of deception -- on his part 0- that we believe was intentional and created problems with our investigation."

Morris's mother says she's long suspected Arochi knows something.

Jonni McElroy, Morris' mother said, "We have gut instincts as parents and as her friends that somehow he had some answers."

Now McElroy is pleading with Arochi to help find her daughter. "We are begging you to do the right thing and please lead us to Christina," she said.

Morris was never seen leaving the parking garage, vanishing almost without a trace.

But no one is giving up hope.

McElroy said, "In my heart I feel like we are gonna celebrate Christmas with her."