The father told him he was looking for his daughter, but the man replied that he hadn't heard of that name.
"I said what about this fella [the defendant]," the witness said. "He looked a little bit surprised and said 'I don't know him' but shortly after said he might know where my daughter was."
The man then appeared to use his cell phone, a car pulled up and someone hopped out.
"They didn't look too afraid of us," the witness said. "They looked like they had a weapon and were going to do something with it. I said I wanted to see my daughter was okay."
The man said he would bring her to the father in an hour, "but I knew they wouldn't come back with her". Frustrated, he left.
Questioned by defence lawyer Bill Nabney, the witness agreed his suspect had invited him to check the house but he had declined because at that point he thought this was normal for someone telling the truth.
The trial continues.