NEWPORT, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Newport Police have a person of interest in connection with the disappearance of a Cocke County woman whose car was found destroyed by fire along a highway.

The police chief will only say their "person of interest" is a male acquaintance of Megan Maxwell, 19, and investigators are interested in what he knows about Maxwell's disappearance.

That person's name has not been released.

Maxwell was last heard form around 4:30 Sunday morning.

About an hour-and-a-half later, an off duty Newport Police officer found her car burned along east highway 25/70.

Tuesday, the Newport Rescue Squad had boats searching the French Broad River near where her car was found.

If you have any information about her disappearance, you are asked to call Newport Police at 423-623-5556 extension 105.