Reported by Anna Marie Hartman
Mid-South teen lies about kidnapping
Updated: Nov 25, 2007 03:19 PM MST
16- year-old Ashley Jeffries said she was abducted from her home shortly before midnight in the 1600 block of Duke.
Police sent out an Amber Alert just after 9:00 Sunday morning. She was found around 11:00 a.m. in the 1700 block of East Holmes.
Family members say they were sleeping Saturday night when Jeffries disappeared.
But during the night they received text messages from the teenager who said she had been forced into a car at gunpoint.
"She sent about four messages saying it was dark, she was scared, she don't know who the person is, she'd never seen him, don't know where she at," says Tammy Sorja, Jeffries.
She said the man who kidnapped her dumped her out of the car in some bushes. She walked to the store and called police and her family.
Relatives say she was shaken but unharmed.
Jeffries told police she was abducted by a man driving a blue car, possibly an early 90's model Chevrolet Cavalier.
However, police say the 16-year-old made up the whole story. They are charging Jeffries with false reporting, which is a felony.
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