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I have provided the Texas Atty General's explanation for you to provide the officer as to why it is illegal to detain and return a 17 yr old. I also provided the harboring statute in the second link.

An unemancipated (2) seventeen-year-old is not a "child" within the Juvenile Justice Code.
https://www.oag.state.tx.us/opinions...htm/ga0125.htm

Sec. 25.06. HARBORING RUNAWAY CHILD.
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.u.../htm/PE.25.htm
"(b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the actor was related to the child within the second degree by consanguinity or affinity, as determined under Chapter 573, Government Code."

Take a look at these:
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.u...73.htm#573.023
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.u...73.htm#573.024

And I will go ahead link you to another Texas Atty General's opinion as well that says that a 17 year old can be detained and returned back back to his/her's home:
https://www.oag.state.tx.us/opinions...pdf/jc0229.pdf